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Create Your Own Musical Instrument STEAM Activity

May 4, 2017 by OneMommy

STEM music activity -- making your own musical instrument

Looking for some fun music STEM activities to help kids discover the science of sound?   Making musical instruments is a fun way to mix art and science in a simple Making Musical Instruments STEM Challenge. Actually, this STEM activity is really STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math).  But whatever you call it, it is fun for […]

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Create a Cardboard Tube Marble Run

March 26, 2017 by OneMommy

Build a Cardboard Tube Marble Run -- this is such a fun, simple STEM activity for kids

Most days the living room floor is covered with brightly colored Lego blocks.  The craft cabinet in the kitchen is often left open, chenille sticks and pom poms spilling out.  Some days it drives me nuts.  (Okay, most days.) Kids love to experiment and build.  That’s why STEM activities are always so popular.  They give […]

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How to Recycle an Old Tire into a Fun DIY Wreath

December 3, 2016 by OneMommy

Simple Recycled Tire Wreath -- DIY camouflage Christmas wreath

December means seeing colorful lights decorating trees and and porches as we drive home in the evenings. In the past I’ve decorated a small shrub in the flower bed.  Unfortunately the shrub had to be torn out this summer, leaving the kids sad that we wouldn’t get to decorate it this year. As I was […]

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Build Your Own Cardboard Castle Playhouse

February 25, 2016 by OneMommy

How to make your own cardboard castle playhouse

Snuggled up on bean bags inside its orange and yellow walls, I fell in love with books.  My kindergarten teacher had a cardboard castle set up as a reading area, and at the end of the school year, I was the lucky child that got to take that castle home.  It was dragged outside on […]

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Stuff Your Pooch’s Stocking with This Homemade Dog Toy!

December 13, 2015 by OneMommy

DIY dog toy

  The stockings are hung on the gate that surrounds our wood stove, just waiting to be filled.  There’s a Santa stocking for our son, and a cute snowman for our daughter.  This year there is a fuzzy red one as well, just waiting to be stuffed with goodies for the dog.  One of the presents […]

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