Tag: family
The following Arts and Brick’s blog posts feature family-friendly activities and crafts geared towards preschool and elementary-aged children.
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Saran Wrap Candy Ball Game for Holiday School Parties
Perfect for family gatherings, team or club gatherings, and especially class parties, a plastic saran wrap ball game will not disappoint!
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Food Folding Surprise “Monster” Drawings
Learn to draw food-themed folded monsters. Go from delicious to terrifying! Especially fun for elementary-aged children!
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Digital Collaging – Seeing the world through the artistic eyes of a child!
Arts and Bricks creator Kelly Barkhurst shares a digital collage technique that combines photographs and children’s artwork, showing our world through our children’s eyes!
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Reset and Relax: Avoiding 3 Mistakes When Teaching Kids Self-Care
It can feel like a daunting task when you need your kids to learn to relax and reset. Fortunately, there are ways you can teach your kids self-care without falling into an expensive trap.
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Best Art Gifts for Kids
Here at Arts and Bricks, we’re BIG fans of creative kids (and that’s every child)! This round-up of arts and crafts gift ideas is full of products that foster children’s creativity and “artsy” making. Our list is specially selected for elementary-aged children, children 5 to 12.
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Simple LEGO Brick Marble Runs
A marble LEGO challenge is an excellent STEAM/STEM build for elementary-age children. It teaches engineering skills and fosters creativity. Winning!
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Roll-A-Haring Art Game for Kids
Learn to make your own Roll-A-Haring dice game or print and play our Sports and Christmas-themed games.
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Legoland Florida Review: Our Days In the Park
For our immediate family, Legoland was a better experience and more fun than Disney! Yes, I truly said that! Here’s why…
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Which Animal is Fake?
This is a Halloween edition of our family’s animal name guessing game for kids. Test your knowledge of vampire, ghoul, and ghost-named animals!
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Education First: Pave the Way for Your Child’s Bright Future
Actionable parenting tips on how to model the value of education to your children.
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Sidewalk Chalk Mosaic Art
Have you ever looked at your bucket of sidewalk chalk and thought, “What do we do with this?” Today, I’m here to inspire you with a very simple, family-friendly outdoor chalk mosaic art project.
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Folding Surprise: Monster Paper Craft for Kids
Learn how to draw a surprise big-mouthed monster. This is a simple activity that requires just a sheet of paper, writing or coloring utensil, and a bit of imagination!
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Magazine Collage Ideas for Kids
Instead of throwing away old magazines, save their brightly printed pages for use in magazine collage artwork that you can make with your kids!
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Kid-Reviews for the Best LEGO Sets
Explore our favorite LEGO sets for kids ages 5 to 12 available for purchase in 2021. Our kids have built these sets and adamantly recommend them!
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How to Make Wearable Dinosaur Feet for Crafty Kids
Rooaar! Stomp! This easy craft is sure to become a family favorite! Create your very own dinosaur feet with just three craft supplies: markers, cardboard, scissors and optional pipe cleaners.
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Kid-Review of LEGO Ice Cream Truck, Set 60253
A fun summer set, the LEGO City Ice Cream Truck serves up popsicles and ice cream to hungry Minifigures and pets!
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Small Business Spotlight: Busy Littles
Learn about our playful afternoon unpacking and exploring our Busy Littles Harvest Jar – Sensory Play for Kids.
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Kid-Review of LEGO Friends Heartlake City Play Hair Salon, Set 41391
At six-years-old, my daughter loves dolls of all shapes and sizes. This makes the LEGO Friends series a good fit for her age-appropriate creative play.
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Did you know LEGO has a FREE magazine for kids?
Start receiving LEGO’s free magazine for kids: LEGO LIFE. It’s kid-approved AWESOME LEGO Fan Mail.
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Kid-Review of LEGO Creator Pirate Ship Pirate Inn, Set 31109
Check out why this 2020 LEGO Pirate’s Inn set earns enthusiastic thumbs ups from our kiddos.
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Kid-Review of LEGO Benny’s Space Squad, Set 70841
One of 2019’s favorite LEGO Sets, four classic space Minifigure astronauts make this set a must have for creative space play!
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Create a Holiday Handprint Craft and Keepsake
Take a few minutes to make this simple Holiday Handprint Craft. Display your craft as is or turn it into a vinyl keepsake.
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Kid-Review of LEGO Creator Pirate Ship Skull Island, Set 31109
Read about our experience building Skull Island from the 2020 LEGO Pirate Ship set with kids.
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Kid-Review of Lego Iconic Chess Game Board, Set 40174
Read why we think the Lego Iconic Chess set is destined to be a favorite in your household.
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26 Letters of Thankfulness
Join us as we spend 26 days with an intentional attitude of gratitude prompted daily with a Lego brick-built letter, from Z to A!
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Build a Jack O’Lantern from Lego Bricks
Learn how to make your very own Jack O’Lantern built with colorful Lego bricks.
