Seaside Play Dough: Making Fish, Snail and Lobster
We have recently taken a few family trips to nearby lakes, and our collection of rocks and seashells has grown accordingly. Come fall, it will be pleasant to remember our summer, while playing with some of our finds and play dough. Using my favourite recipe from the...
How to Make Wooden Teethers, Rattles and Simple Toys
Ever wondered how to make wooden toys for kids at home? We started with teethers and rattles, and there was one tool that was particularly helpful! As one of his first toys, my son had a wooden rattle fish. As a first-time-mom, I thought it was wonderful. No plastic...
Audiobooks for Toddlers: Record Your Own Audiobooks
If your toddler can listen to books for hours, maybe he or she is ready for audibooks? Record audiobooks for your kids and win yourself a little time for coffee while they're enjoying their favourite stories! When I was a little girl, I had a couple of vinyls with...
Button Moon Collage
Make a moon button craft to add to your home décor! So easy to put together that even young children can make this craft. My son is in love with the moon. When we go for a walk at night, which we do every evening, because it lulls him to sleep, he calls for it, “Moon!...
Hiking with Kids
When I was learning English, it took me a while to understand what “hiking” means. When I first heard the word, I thought it meant “camping”. Checking the English-Russian dictionary, I found a translation “walking”. Neither of those two describe hiking, which has...
Magnetic Moon and Stars: Build Your Night Sky
The nights of August are clear and warm, and it is a perfect time for stargazing, as we are witnessing the Perseids – one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year. We are always taking Budster for a walk before bed. During one such walk, he noticed the moon...
Toddler’s Favourite Book: Make It Yourself
In our family, we like creating traditions for celebrating milestones, and we certainly never fail to find more of them. I can hardly think of any parent who would not be excited about their child turning one, though. Last December, when Budster turned one, we planned...
Roller Painting for Kids
Kids like working with our big tools. They also like making big projects. This painting experiment includes both: a new fun tool and a really big piece of paper! What will happen if I give my son a VERY BIG sheet of paper? I have been pondering over this question for...
The Fox and the Crane: Shadow Puppets with Printables
Today I am participating in the Rockstar Sunday series over at Teach Mama. Making shadow shows can be very easy. Sometimes fairy-tales and fables have just a couple characters, and what makes them exceptional is the interaction between two. The Fox and the Crane - one...
Play Dough Corner for Babies and Toddlers
For my son's first birthday, he got a big package of colourful play dough cans. He loved them and played with them for a long time... stacking them into a tower. However, once the cans were open, he was not sure what to do, and neither was I. I could sculpt a...
The Princess and the Pea: Shadow Puppet Show
Adventure in a Box is participating in the Story Book Summer series over at Rainy Day Mom. Every article of the series features a story book and related craft or game. This week the theme is fairy-tales, and I chose The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen....
How to Make a Toy Paddle Boat
For a while, Budster has been enjoying a book about a little tugboat, and summer seemed like a perfect time to give him his first boat, so we got some wood cutouts together and made him a toy paddle boat. Though I used wood, you can modify this tutorial to work for...