Awesome Toys You Can Make at Home

My daughter has about a month left of school, and while she usually does a fair bit of summer camp activities, I’m still getting worried about how she’s going to entertain herself in the times when she is home (I work from home, so there is quite a lot of entertaining herself).

I may just give her this list of 25+ DIY toys to make at home from Babble Dabble Do and tell her to go to town.

There are flying toys, spinning toys, puzzles, building toys and more, and definitely some things I would want to make and that I’m sure my daughter would love, too.

I know she’d have fun with the constellation geoboard, pictured above, as well as the paper building blocks, kaleidoscopes and discovery tubes.

What a great collection to keep on hand for I’m bored moments and rainy (or hot) days to come!

[Photo: Babble Dabble Do.]

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Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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