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 More loose parts ideas this week:  1. Send the kids outside and tell them to gather 15 objects (any size). When they get back have them create a landscape "painting" with the objects.   ...

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Here are 5 loose part prompts:   1. Put out buttons, bottle tops, sticks, cotton balls and q-tips. Prompt: create a winter scene.   2. Put out feathers, sticks, pipe cleaners, and nuts or s...

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American Thanksgiving challenge: Use only the following to create a Thanksgiving centerpiece.  Send us your pictures and we'll post them! Send to kidthinkers@gmail.com.  Challenge yourself t...

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Here's a new summer challenge: Two pool noodles and 12 inches of duct tape.  What can you create?  Send pictures.  We'll post!

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Try this: take two old t-shirts, 48 inches of thread or string, a needle, scissors, and turn the tshirts into something new (these are the ONLY materials you can use so be creative) -- could be a...

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Here's a new challenge for you: Build a car using only these materials. two pencils (preferably unsharpened), two straws, scissors, four buttons, 4 CDs, and a toilet paper tube (or a cardboard bo...

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Pool noodle challenge. Create a sculpture from pool noodles.  You may use one other item of your choice such as duct tape or toothpicks.  To make to it more challenging, make a kinetic sculptur...

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What can you create with 50 sticks? Try it - and send us your pictures:)

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Check out these awesome solutions from the Bayer family! Congratulations on great work!

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Summer is a great time for art -- tell your student to gather 50+ items from outdoors and then create a mandala with them. Send in your pictures:)

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Start off your summer with this challenge: build a duct tape boat using only cardboard and duct tape -- it can be any size or any shape. Then, test it and send in your pictures:)

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Quick research project: choose a famous person and search for 3 quotes by that person. Then, combine just 3-5 words from each of the quotes to create a new quote for daily living. It can be silly...

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It's Spring. So, here's a spring challenge for you. Ask your student to go outside and find 20 leaves or petals (preferably on the ground). Then give the student a piece of white paper, some glue...

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Check out this awesome solution to 10 Books (words from each of the 10 books in bold): POP! POP! POP! POP! Fire Crackers WENT off. I looked up and the STARS dot the SKY like some one opened a jar...

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Here's a good one inspired by Unschool Me using just 10 squares of toilet paper for each person, make a soft family. You may use one other object of your choice such as a marker or string.

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Gather up ten books. Go to page 30 of every book and write down the 30th word on that page. Now, using those ten words, write a story that is only 10 sentences long. Send us your stories and we'l...

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Inspired by Landfill Harmonic , this challenge asks you to go to your trash and/or recycling bin and create an instrument (or two or three) and then play it. Videotape your result and send it to ...

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If you haven't thrown them out or recycled them already, use all of your holiday cards to create a circus, complete with animals, acts, and clowns. You may use 1 sheet of blank white paper, 1 bla...

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Another simple challenge: using all of the paperclips in a box of paperclips, create a creature. Be sure to send pictures and then, recycle your paperclips!

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This week's challenge is simple: create a house using only forks. Send pictures -- we'd love to see them and post them!

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Your challenge is to create an instrument using only the following materials and tools: Materials: 40 mm PVC reticulation pipe (or mailing tube) duct tape 10cm length of garden hose 1 ordina...

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Given the recent news about Hostess Twinkies potentially disappearing, I thought it would be fun to invite solutions to this challenge: Make something using one box of Twinkies. Good luck. Very...

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Save your boxes (or styrofoam filling) from holiday gifts -- any size, any number and use only duct tape and boxes to create a robot. Try to make arms, legs, etc. that move! As always, we love to...

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Check out this awesome video sent from unschoolme !

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There is a great need to foster creative thinking by our children. It will guarantee their success in the unpredictable future! Have them watch this and then try to make their own Rube Goldberg M...

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