Updated April 2024

We love making leaf prints, whether on fabric, paper, clay, or even plaster of paris. The process is so satisfying, and the results capture the natural beauty of leaves.

One of the easiest and most lovely ways to make leaf prints is with air dry clay. You can use these clay leaf prints for ornaments, pendants, or as gifts.

Here’s how we made these beautiful prints.

First, here’s a video tutorial, then we’ll give you the step-by-step instructions.

Clay Leaf Prints

MATERIALS

• Small leaves, ferns and flowers
• Air dry clay
• Wax paper, parchment paper, or a plastic placemat/tray
• Drinking straws
• String or elastic thread
• Watercolor paint (optional)
• Beads (optional)

A great way to use these clay leaf prints is to make an ornament or pendant. To do so, thread string through the hole and tie to form a loop for ornaments or a pendant. Add beads if desired. You can also string several clay disks together into a garland.

More Clay Projects for Kids

• 15 Amazing Clay Projects for Kids
• How to Make a Coral Reef with Clay
• How to Make Clay Coil Pots
• How to Make Mosaic Art for Kids with Air Dry Clay
• Create Colorful Clay Relief Tiles for Kids
• Why We Love this Kids Pottery Wheel

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Updated April 2024

Have you used air dry clay? This stuff is awesome for kids’ arts & crafts! It feels a lot like regular potter’s clay, but it’s not as messy. And it dries hard without needing to be fired.

Is it unbreakable? No. But neither is fired pottery. And it is quite strong.

We use and love Crayola Air Dry Clay and have for years. The quality is good, the price is reasonable, and there’s just so much that can be done with it!

You can get Crayola Air Dry Clay at most big box stores, craft stores, or online.

For more of our recommended kids’ arts and crafts supplies, be sure to check out our post featuring the Best Tools & Art Supplies for Kids.

Here is a list of our favorite clay projects for kids. We hope you get inspired and try a few!

Clay Projects for Kids

1. Clay birds + pinch pot nests

Create sweet birds and pinch pot nests. This is a perfect springtime clay activity!

2. Nature prints in clay with flowers & leaves

This easy nature craft project is fun for kids to experiment making prints in clay.

3. Create hand dishes

These clay dishes are easy & fun to create and decorate! Use them to hold small trinkets, for display, or to gift to others.

4. Make a coil pot

Learn how to make a simple or more elaborate version of clay coil pots.

5. Create beaded heart ornaments

Create heart shapes with cookie cutters & decorate the clay hearts with beads.

6. Creative small world play for kids

Your child can explore whatever their current interest is by creating their own figures for a small world or diorama. This is a fun open-ended clay activity for kids.

7. Experiment with textures in clay

Use doilies or lace to create unique textures in clay. Then cut into hearts or other shapes to use as ornaments or magnets.

8. Create a clay coral reef

Use air dry clay and clay tools to create a 3D, textured coral reef. You can even use glow in the dark paint so that it really shines!

9. Dyed pasta mosaic in clay

These colorful flower mosaics are the perfect projects for spring!

10. Painted mosaic pinch pots

These easy painted pinch pots are great for kids to put their little treasures in.

11. Mosaic Clay Pinch Pots

Dig into the recycling bin for materials to upcycle and create some amazing mosaic art for kids.

12. Create A Fairy House

Learn how to make a fairy house using air dry clay, beans, & found nature items. Kids love creating these little houses & they encourage hours of imaginative play. 

13. Make a Nature Mobile for Kids

Go for a nature walk and gather natural materials to use for this beautiful nature mobile. Painted air dry clay beads add the finishing touch!

14. Create Colorful Clay Relief Tiles

Create gorgeous decorative tiles with air drying clay and a surprising method for adding color. This is a fool-proof project for novice potters.

15. Clay Coil Hearts

These clay coil hearts are super easy to make and suitable for all ages from 4 years and up. I’ve made them with little kids and adults and they never fail!

More Clay Projects for Kids

• Clay & Playdough Play for Kids
• Why We Love Faber-Castell’s Kids Pottery Wheel
• How to Make Starry Night Scene by Painting with Clay
• The Artful Parent Clay & Playdough page
• Use World Colors modeling clay to make clay faces
• Fun Playdough Activities for Kids with Ideas to Play & Learn

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Updated April 2024

If you’re the owner of an art studio like me, or just an artsy mama (like so many of YOU!), I bet you get tons of sometimes awesome and sometimes wild donations of materials.  

I’ve been given hundreds of cardboard tubes, piles of lids from baby food pouches, a giant box of seashells, and countless beads, jars, spools of thread, shoeboxes, stickers, stamps, and teeny, tiny odds and ends.  

I nearly always say “YES” when asked if I take donations. I love repurposing objects, and kids adore going through my recycling bin of “usable makeables.” Some items eventually make their way into the trash, but I try to put most donations to good use in a project.

One of my favorite ways to use all the odds and ends I save is pressing them into air dry clay. Older children can create pinch pots and use the bits and bobs to embellish their designs. Younger children love the sensation of pushing the objects into small mountains of clay.

I love projects like this that work on so many levels for a variety of ages!

Mosaic Art for Kids with Air Dry Clay

MATERIALS

• Small objects such as sequins, beads, buttons, marker lids, acorn caps, plastic lids, small seashells, tiny ceramic tiles, etc.
• Air dry clay

It’s fun to have a conversation with your kids about how to use their special handmade bowl.  

What could you keep inside?

• Maybe a collection of precious treasures, such as stones or seashells?
• Or you may choose to display it alone on the mantle!

However you choose to display your child’s artwork, the process of creating something together is a wonderful way to make a memory!

More Clay Art Activities for Kids

• 15 Clay Projects for Kids
• How to Make Clay Coil Pots
• How to Make a Clay Coral Reef
• How to Make Lace Hearts from Air Dry Clay for Ornaments & Magnets
• Make a Nature Mobile for Kids with Gathered Materials + Air Dry Clay
• Clay Leaf Prints + Pendants

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I don’t know about you, but it can be hard to find the perfect Mother’s Day gift for the special moms and grandmas in your life. You want to give something meaningful that expresses your gratitude for all she does, but you also want the gift to be useful, and not another tchotchke that will clutter up the shelves.

And if you have kids, it’s even better if the gift can be handmade, so they can be part of the process!

Well, luckily for you, we’ve got the perfect combination of meaningful, useful, and handmade! A sweet pinch pot dish, just the right size for holding rings or keys. And every time mom or grandma uses it, she’ll be reminded of how much she means to you!

We made these dishes for our Nana and Grandma. My kids enjoyed pinching the clay to form each little pot and then painting them just the perfect colors.

How to Make a Clay Pinch Pot Keepsake

MATERIALS

• Air Dry Clay
• Tray or work mat
• Paint (you can use acrylic or tempera; we used BioColor)
• Paint brushes
• Jars of water
• Paint markers (optional)

Aren’t these pinch pot dishes so sweet? We can’t wait to gift them on Mother’s Day! And if you’re wondering what else you can do with air dry clay, check out some of our favorite clay projects!

More Mother’s Day Gifts for Kids to Make

• 15 Preschool Mother’s Day Crafts
• 10 Mother’s Day Craft Ideas Kids Can Make
• 30 Mother’s Day Crafts for Kids
• How to Paint Mother’s Day Portraits of Queen Mom
• 40 Handmade Gift Ideas that Kids Can Make

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Updated January 2024

We love playdough. And while we use it for building, creating, and sensory play, we most often use it for pretend play.

Whenever we get the playdough out, the dinosaurs, Paw Patrol pups, and various other little figures end up coming out, too. My kids can’t resist using the playdough to create lots of little worlds for their critters.

This open-ended play ends up being more independent and lasting longer than when my kids use playdough in other ways. Once the materials are out, I often sit back and watch as little worlds are created and stories are acted out, and my kids are completely absorbed in their play.

Small World Playdough Play

MATERIALS

• Playdough, either homemade or store bought
• Tray, cookie sheet, or Tupperware container
• pom-poms
• jewels
• beads
• buttons
• tiny erasers
• LEGOs
• and lots of little animals and creatures

Playdough is seamlessly incorporated into their small world play, adding a new and different level of creative play to the entire experience, each time they play.

Creative Playdough Play for Kids

If your kids aren’t into little figures, we also do our fair share of playdough baking and pretending that we are the next Food Network star.

All you need to create your own playdough bakery is:

• silicone muffin liners (these are great for so many creative play opportunities)
• rolling pins
• cookie cutters
• beads and sequins for decorations

Take turns making each other pretend treats or let your kids set up a kitchen or cupcake store and start taking orders!

We love to use our favorite homemade playdough recipe, but you can use any playdough, homemade or store bought, of course.

Do your kids incorporate figures and little toys into their playdough play? If not, you might want to try setting out some animal and people figurines, matchbox cars, and other little odds and ends with some playdough and a few open-ended add-ins (beads, buttons, large sequins, and toothpicks) and see what they come up with.

More Ideas for Playdough

• Our Favorite Playdough Play Ideas for Kids’ Everyday Creativity
• Fun Playdough Activities for Kids with Ideas to Play & Learn
• How to Use LEGOs to Make Pictures in Playdough
• Creative Small World Play Ideas for Kids
• Playdough Pretend Play Ideas

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Updated January 2024

There’s so much potential with homemade playdough and it is a consistent art material that our kids are drawn to over and over again.

Maybe you’d like some fun ideas with playdough for your kids to explore.

Here’s a list packed full of playdough activities for toddlers and preschoolers to build, play and learn with playdough.

Check out this video full of creative playdough ideas, and then keep scrolling for even more fun ideas. And don’t miss The Artful Parent go-to homemade playdough: our cooked recipe for playdough and our no cook recipe.

7 Toddler Play Ideas with Playdough

1. Playdough dress up with plastic toys (from Redviolet Studio). Gather up some plastic animals and kids can give them a whole new look!

2. Playdough poke-ins to make all kinds of prickly creatures. Try toothpicks, straws, pipe cleaners, marker caps, googly eyes––all are fun to press in for kids.

3. Rolling snakes is fun but how about these adorable snails? (from Mother Natured)

4. Stamp playdough (from Little Mainer Art Studio)

5. Playdough sculptures + loose parts (from Redviolet Studio)

6. Learn to use scissors with this playdough activity for toddlers (from Modern Preschool)

7. Pretend play animal setup (from Redviolet Studio)

8 Preschool Play Ideas with Playdough

1. Make a forest diorama.

2. Open a bakery! (from Little Mainer Art Studio) Set out muffin tins, rolling pins, cookie cutters, pony beads/sequins & candles.

3. Create an adorable cactus garden (from Redviolet Studio)

4. Play chef (from Creation Space)

5. Build playdough volcanoes and create eruptions with baking soda & vinegar!

6. Set up a playdough play tray for small world play

7. These playdough pizzas are cute enough to eat (from Nurture Store)

8. Build playdough towers with pasta (from Redviolet Studio)

9 Playdough Activities for Kindergartners

1. Write messages in playdough (from Little Mainer Art Studio)

2. And another fun alphabet stamping option (from Kindergarten Works)

3. Sculpt scenes with playdough on a tray (from CreationSpace)

4. Write Letters with Playdough (from No Time For Flash Cards)

5. Explore the layers of our planet with colorful Earth balls.

6. Build spaghetti towers by stringing beads on dried spaghetti (from Glitter on a Dime)

7. Try color mixing with playdough (from At the Butterfly Ball)

8. Create pictures in playdough with LEGO prints

9. Build structures using playdough and sticks (from Fireflies and Mud Pies)

5 Ideas for Homemade Playdough

1. Add in a beautiful nature element with petal playdough!

2. Whip up a batch of edible play doh.

3. Make your playdough glow with this recipe (from TinkerLab)

4. Make galaxy playdough & add in space toys (from Redviolet Studio)

5. Mix your own natural dyes into playdough (from The Imagination Tree)

4 Playdough Gift Ideas

Kids love playdough for gifts and it’s so fun to create playdough kits by season, holiday or based on your child’s interest.

1. Here’s how to make a playdough snowman for winter time.

2. Make some Christmas playdough that looks like candy canes!

3. Make a rainbow playdough kit (from the Kindergarten Connection)

4. Playdough party favors (from eighteen25)

More Playdough Activities for Kids

• The BEST Cooked Recipe for Playdough
• How to Make Playdough for Kids
• Our Favorite Playdough Play Ideas for Kids
• 3 Homemade Playdough Recipes for Kids
• How to Set Up a Playdough Play Tray
• Playdough Pretend Play Ideas

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Updated January 2024

You know how much we love homemade playdough here at the Artful Parent.

Homemade playdough is awesome. It’s easy and cheap to make, the texture is smooth and playdough rubbery and a batch makes a generous amount to play with. And you can totally customize it using whatever colors, glitters and scents your kids like.

Here’s the no cook playdough recipe we like the very best, which uses the hot water method.

How to Make Playdough

MATERIALS

• Flour
• Salt
• Cream of tartar
• Oil
• Liquid watercolors (or food coloring)
• Water

Note: candy food coloring (oil based) works really well for vibrantly colored playdough, but it stains, so be sure to wear gloves and cover your work surface!

Pro Tips: We’ve made this no cook playdough recipe enough times to learn some tips that will ensure it comes out with the perfect texture!

1. Be sure to use a metal bowl or pot.
2. Keep the water boiling and piping hot when making this recipe.

These two tricks will ensure your playdough “cooks” and will help achieve a texture that is just right for playing!

Here’s a video showing you how to make this playdough.

See? Wasn’t that easy? Now, here’s the recipe.

No Cook Recipe for Playdough

No Cook Recipe for Playdough

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• Author: Jean Van’t Hul
• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Cook Time: 5 minutes
• Total Time: 10 minutes
• Category: Art Recipe

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This is great homemade playdough recipe to make with simple kitchen ingredients and the best part is that there is no stove-top cooking involved so the kids can help mix up their own batch! 

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Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup salt
• 2 Tbsp cream of tartar
• 2 Tbsp oil
• Liquid watercolors (or food coloring)
• 2 cups boiling water

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Instructions

1. Mix dry ingredients in a bowl.
2. Make a well in the center and add oil and coloring.
3. Pour in boiling water and mix.
4. It will look like a goopy mess and you’re going to be sure that you’re going to have to add a lot of flour to make it work. Just let it sit for a few minutes. It will firm up and work perfectly.
5. Take the dough out of the bowl and knead it a bit to form a ball.
6. Play!

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Notes

This playdough will keep for a few months if stored in an airtight container or plastic bag in between use.

How Do Our Different Homemade Recipes Compare?

After making both playdough recipes many times, our staff has votes for both.

Cooked Recipe for Playdough

Shelf life: The cooked playdough recipe we make lasts for months. The no-cook batches tend to get moist after a month or two.

It’s forgiving: Cooked playdough can be left out, uncovered, for hours, with little or no lasting effect. No cook playdough starts getting a dry and crumbly coating if left out for any length of time.

Better texture: The cooked playdough has a lovely, rubbery, squishy texture and it holds together better. Most of the no cook playdoughs are soft but pull apart quickly and you end up with more crumbs and bits of playdough all over.

However, as much as we love the cooked recipe, we admit that there are definitely times and reasons to consider making no cook as well.

No-Cook Recipe for Playdough

For a quick, easy recipe that kids can help make, no-cook is the way to go. It won’t last as long as the cooked recipe though.

More kid-friendly to make: If you want your kids (or students) to be more involved in all steps of making, then no cook is the way to go since there is no hot stove to deal with. If making the kind with boiling water, an adult can boil and pour the water, but children can help with the rest.

It’s quicker and easier: This one is a bit quicker and easier to make. Mostly just dump and mix.

Expendable: If you plan to use it for a specific purpose, such as a baking soda volcano or a kitchen table forest, then by all means whip up a quick batch of this kind.

People Also Ask

• How do you make no–cook playdough? Follow our recipe above to create the best batch! It’s easy and a great opportunity for your kids to join in the action!
• Can you make it without boiling water? We find that boiling water is necessary for getting the texture just right. If you’d rather not use boiling water, check out our cooked recipe for playdough.

More Playdough Ideas for Kids

• How to Set Up a Play Tray
• The Best Playdough Activities for Kids
• How to Use LEGOs to Make Pictures in Playdough
• The BEST Cooked Recipe for Playdough
• Our Favorite Play Ideas for Kids’ Everyday Creativity
• 3 Homemade Playdough Recipes for Kids

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Updated January 2024

We’re always trying out new playdough play ideas. In fact, playdough is one of our go-to materials and activities for everyday creative play.

We keep a kitchen drawer stocked with playdough, playdough tools, and playdough “decorations” (toothpicks, beads, googly eyes, feathers). It’s easily accessible and frequently brought out, either by the kids or by me (when I see that they might need a diversion or easy activity).

For every day, endlessly enjoyable and changeable creative fun, playdough is hard to beat.

Plus, homemade playdough is super simple and fun to make. We’ve got three great homemade playdough recipes. And if you’re not up for making your own, we really like the Colorations brand.

Once you have your playdough ready, here are some of the things our kids love to do over and over again with it!

Playdough Play Ideas

1. Pretend Food

Cupcakes, spaghetti, even apple pies! Kids love to use playdough to make food! They can play kitchen or restaurant and whip up lots of yummy creations to serve to friends, family, or stuffed animals.

2. Create letters and words

Playdough is perfect for practicing early reading and writing skills. Children can roll out snakes to turn into letters (also great for developing fine motor skills!) or use letter stamps to press into the dough.

3. Sculpt People, Animals, and Things

Playdough is a great consistency for sculpting, especially for little hands. Kids can create tiny worlds with mountains, volcanoes, and trees for their little toy animals. Or they can sculpt the animals (or maybe even monsters!) that live in the tiny worlds!

There’s nothing more satisfying for kids to poke anything and everything into a blob of playdough! We love different shaped pasta, cut up straws, buttons, nuts and bolts, toothpicks, and even googly eyes!

Here’s a video showing some of my favorite Playdough Play Ideas in action!

How about you? What are your kids favorite playdough play ideas?

More Playdough Play Ideas and Recipes

• 33 Ideas with Playdough for Kids
• 3 Homemade Playdough Recipes for Kids
• How to Set Up a Playdough Play Tray
• Playdough Pretend Play Ideas
• How to Use LEGOs to Make Pictures in Playdough

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Updated February 2024

We don’t know about your kids, but when our kids play with playdough, it usually turns into a pretend play fest more often than simply sculpture or art.

Whether they are setting up a playdough bakery or creating a small world for their animal figures, kids love to use playdough for pretend play.

Here are 5 of our favorite pretend play ideas for playdough!

Playdough Pretend Play Ideas

1. Playdough Bakery

Whip up a batch of apple pie playdough and let your kids set up their own bakery or restaurant! All you need are a few silicone cupcake liners, buttons, beads or sequins for sprinkles, and maybe even some candles!

2. Halloween Creatures with Playdough

You can make spooky creatures any time of year, but we especially love these at Halloween! Before you get started, take a look around the house for buttons, Lego parts, beads, pipe cleaners that your kids can use to create their own playdough monsters!

3. Small World Play

Add your child’s favorite small toys or animal figurines to take the playdough play to a whole new level of small world creative play for kids. We keep these materials in a large Tupperware container with the playdough, so it’s ready whenever the kids get the urge to play.

4. Playdough Turkeys

This is the best activity for the kids table at Thanksgiving! Add some Autumnal feathers and glitter, and a dash of cinnamon to your playdough for a Fall sensory experience. 

5. Playdough Snowmen

Playdough snowmen are easy to make and fun to play with, especially when it is too cold to go out and play in the real snow!

More Pretend Play Ideas for Kids Using Playdough

• 33 Ideas with Playdough for Kids
• 3 Homemade Playdough Recipes for Kids
• How to Set Up a Playdough Play Tray
• How to Use LEGOs to Make Pictures in Playdough
• Our Favorite Playdough Play Ideas for Kids

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Updated August 2023

After my children were born, I started experimenting with all kinds of activities and invitations to distract them, engage them, and secretly buy myself some time to do other things around the house, or maybe just drink a cup of tea in peace.

I would often try to set up simple invitations to create or explore. And I found that not only did they really enjoy them, but it was a fun and playful way to work on certain skills. 

Basically, an invitation to create is both an opportunity to entice a child to make art as well as an opportunity to introduce a new material, technique, or activity. 

Here are a few simple after school art invitations for school aged kids that are on my favorite list. These are ones my kids have loved, and I hope yours will too.

Keep in mind that you can make these after-school art invitations as simple or complex as you wish; you can always add more materials or work around what you have at home to make it easy to set up in less than 5 minutes.

After School Art Invitations

MATERIALS (These are all the materials needed for these 5 activities)

• white paper
• white sticker paper
• markers
• liquid watercolors or watercolor palette
• stamp pads
• string
• oil pastels
• playdough
• air dry clay

1. Sticker Making

This is one of our all-time favorites! We’ve been making stickers for years and the boys still love it.

All you need is white sticker paper (or white sticky labels) and markers.  I’ve collected stamps over the years, so we’ll use those for extra fun.  But you don’t really need these.

They can start by drawing on the white side of the paper or label (make sure they are not drawing on the sticky side). Another fun option is to stamp and color their stamp outlines and then cut out their own sticker creations. I guarantee you at least an hour or more of fun!

2. Make Your Own Gift Tags

This is another favorite as kids love the idea of working on a smaller format.

I pre-cut a bunch of small squares and rectangles (about 3×4 or 4x4in) out of sturdy white paper and set it out on the table next to markers and/or watercolors and let them go to town. If you have stickers, you can set those out, too.

My kids have been making and giving these for years and they enjoy it so much. I often join in the process as I find it to be relaxing and fun.

3. Watercolors & Oil Pastels

Don’t be afraid to bring some paint into the game! Watercolors are washable and easy to clean up. And once you mix them with oil pastels the effect is super cool because the oil pastels resist the paint, and the colors pop out really nicely. You can do this with nice watercolor paper or just white cardboard.

This is a relaxing activity, perfect to wind down after a hectic school day. 

4. Observational Drawings

I know the name sounds fancy, but I promise this is really fun and easy to set up. I’ve done it with lots of different things.

Sometimes I use simple stuff I have around the house, like flowers, toys or fruits. When I’m feeling inspired, I bring in something more fun like cupcakes or donuts and set them right in the middle of the table next to paper, markers, or any kind of paint you have.

And then I ask the boys try and focus on the objects (or food) on the table and draw/paint them from observation. 

5. Playdough or Clay Creations

Almost every household has some playdough lying around so this is an easy one to set up. My kids (age 7 & 9) prefer clay over playdough, so I will also do this with air dry clay.

Set out either the playdough or the clay next to some tools (you can use things you have at home like old toothbrushes, knives, toothpicks, rollers, scissors, etc.). Add in some pasta, or other loose parts (things such as lids, buttons, sticks, nails, small rocks, etc.) and let them do the rest!

Your kids will come up with some pretty creative pieces, I promise!

I hope you give these invitations a try! Like I said, you can make them as easy or “fancy” as you desire! But I suggest keeping it simple so it’s something you feel comfortable doing often.

I usually try to set up before the kids get home from school and that way, they can go right to it while they have a snack and unwind from their day.  These are just a few ideas, but as you start doing it, you will come up with your very own, based on the things you have at home.

More Art Invitations for Kids

• How to Set Up Creative Invitations for Kids
• Why I Like Morning Invitations with My Kids
• 10 Open-Ended Art Invitations that Bring Out Kids’ Creativity
• 5 Low Mess Creative Activities for Kids
• The Art of Strewing
• 11 Creative Activities for Kids

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