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Utlizing various “found” items around the home kept our arts and crafts activities relatively inexpensive, yet lots of fun.  Some of these involved using the wrapping paper I saved.

I’ve written about these activities in my Blisstree Arts and Crafts posts and one of my readers also has offered suggestions.  You may want to check them out for those times you need creative activities for your youngsters.

Crafting with Wrapping Paper

More Wrapping Paper Craft Ideas

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Wrapping Paper Crafts for Kids

 Once the excitement of the first days of summer vacation from school are over, youngsters often bombard you with the comments, “I’m bored. I don’t know what to do.”  

Check out the post, Activities for Your Youngsters This Summer – Reading & Others, over at my new blog One Book Two Book. There you’ll also find links to Karen’s post at our blog and Char’s at Weary Parent, with many, many ideas.

These may be activities you can enter into with your youngsters as you take a break from quilting and fabric art work.  Also, you’ll find some you can set them playing while you get some time to do your work. 

I always found that my daughter, an only child, kept very occupied when she had activities to become involved in, sometimes alone, other times with her dad and me, and often with her cousins and friends.  When the young adults get together nowadays, they often reminisce about the fun activities at Aunt Mary’s home.

What are your plans for summer activities to keep the various generations in your home busy?

(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen

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Summer Activities for Quilters’ Children