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20 Easy Kids Crafts That Only Need 2 Ingredients

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If your kids are anything like mine, then they do a lot of crafting. Kids crafts are an excellent way for your kids to express themselves and get a little creative in the process. However, after a whole week, packed with crafts, you’ll slowly start to deplete that once full stockpile of crafting supplies for your kids. If you are looking for some crafts that are easy for your kids to do, two-ingredient crafts are perfect! These crafts are seriously easy, and don’t require many ingredients to do them! Here are the best easy two-ingredient crafts for kids to make.

  1. Cosmic Hearts
  2. Marshmallow and Toothpick Buildings
  3. Rock Painting Woodland Animals
  4. Homemade Body Paint Recipe
  5. 2 Ingredient Neon Bath Paint
  6. Dancing Ribbon Rings
  7. Nature Cuffs
  8. Cardboard Stackers
  9. Paper Frog Craft
  10. Homemade Scratch and Sniff Paint
  11. Colorful Cling Wrap Faux Stained Glass
  12. 2 Ingredient DIY Moon Sand 
  13. Dinosaur Paper Bracelets
  14. 2 Ingredient Fluffy Cloud Dough
  15. Soap Fluff Sensory Play
  16. Despicable Me ‘Minion’ Finger Puppets
  17. DIY Unicorn Crayons 
  18. Popsicle Stick Picture Frame
  19. Quick Pipecleaner Bookmarks 
  20. ‘Magic’ Drawing with Refraction of Light

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Pet Themed Learning Activities

This month we’ve looked at cat learning activities and dog learning activities, but what if you have a different kind of pet? Here are some other pet themed learning activities you can try at home or in the classroom.

Tot Schooling has a cute pet bingo game, which does include dogs and cats but also lizards, snakes and fish. They also have a cute mathing game for learning about pets and their homes.

No Time for Flashcards has a ton of great pet themed learning activities including crafts, printables and more. There’s a PDF in there with a super cute animal checkup sheet for doing a pretend play vets office.

Planning Playtime has a great set of pet themed printables available for purchase, including things like making patterns with feathers, pet racing with unit cubes, beginning sounds, shapes and more. These would be great for a classroom.

Speaking of classrooms, Pocket of Preschool has ideas for pet-focused centers you can set up in the classroom, including counting, number lines and this cute frog shape I spy activity pictured.

If you have a pet store where you live you can try this pet store scavenger hunt from Toddler Approved. Or head to the library and see if you can find books about these different kinds of pets. You can also grab a pet-themed scavenger hunt you can do at home or in the classroom as part of the printable pack from Crafty Life Mom. If you don’t have all the items you can use pictures.

Let kids invent their own pets with this activity from Stories by Storie based on the book Invent a Pet. The printables are free when you sign up for their newsletter.

Sunny Day Family has adorable templates kids can use to build pets, including a dog, cat, rabbit, lizard, mouse and bird. These blank slate designs allow kids to add features including faces, stripes and more.

Make pets with playdough with the printable playdough mats from Preschool Play and Learn.