Crafts and Fun With Things Around the House

Cannot find anything fun for your children to do today? There's always something to make with the simplest stuff lying around your house. You just have to use your imagination to find out what and how to make things.

Empty soda pop cans may be used for several things; they aren't just trash. Gather the cans and some glue and you are on your way to making a robot. All you need is two cans for each leg, four cans for the body, two cans for the arms, one can for the neck, and 2 more cans for the head. Clue them all together and make your robots come to life. Also, you can make some games out of empty pop cans. You could line them up and let your children throw balls at them to see who knocks the most down, or set them up like bowling pins.

With empty milk jugs, your children can make and decorate their very own piggy bank. Cut a hole big enough for every coin under the lip of the milk jug so they can slip their money in. Let them decorate it however they desire. If your child thinks a piggy bank is not a good enough idea, they could also make a planter. Cut the top off of the milk jug, fill it with soil, and let them plant seeds of their choice in them. Make sure they keep up with the plant and water it. They can watch their creation grow and enjoy it too!

Can kids really have more fun with the box than the toy? Do they really need to have the toys that come with them? Get a big empty box, draw wheels and headlights on it! You could cut holes in the bottom of the box for their legs and get a paper plate for the steering wheel. To keep the box up and off the floor punch holes in the front and back of the box. Tie one side of the string to the front of the box and the other to the back. Do this on both sides of the box and the strings become almost like suspenders for the car. If the basic drawings on the box aren't good enough to the child let them design their own car. This could be fun for the whole family. With more than one of these cars they can have races, their own car shows, and anything else that comes to their imagination.

You and your children can put on a puppet show. All you need is a couple of old socks. Draw some faces on them and make them say what you want. You can get more elaborate and sew or glue on yarn hair, button eyes, or any other kinds of notions you can think of. Make the puppets come to life and hang an old sheet to create a background or stage. There are many ways to create crafts and games for kids with stuff around the house. Use your imagination and let your children explore the different ways to recycle "trash."

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Warm Weather and Bounce Houses - The Perfect Pair

Warm weather is conducive to vacation time, out-of-town adventures, and plentiful physical activities. Kids love going out and playing under the sun. This is quite understandable because it is only during the warmer weathers that they can walk out the front door and play in the backyard.

Even so, the heat of the sun could be a little too harsh for smaller kids. It is best that they are left to play on a shade instead of being exposed to the direct heat of the sun. If you have a covered porch, you don't have to worry too much about this issue. Now if you don't have one, you should put up some structure in your backyard that could provide some cover or a layer of protection for your kids as they play outside.

Constructing a shade directly connotes a minor house renovation. For people that don't have the time and the energy for these types of work, the mere idea of putting up a roof on the porch is not very nice.

Here is where bounce houses come in. Bounce houses are the life-size inflatable toys that you can setup very easily. There's no need for a total renovation of your lawn. You don't have to hire a laborer or ask a quote of materials. You can setup a bounce house for your kids to play on by your lonesome.

Bounce houses come in all shapes and form. Some even look like castles that are perfect for your small princes and princesses. Just use the blower it comes with and the bounce house would be ready. After which, you will have the perfect shade in your backyard minus all the hassles. You can also take it out once your kids are done playing with them.

But more than just shade, you have provided a really enjoyable playground for your children. Inflatable toys are popular these days because the kids are not the only ones who would benefit from them. Parents love them because they are safe. They can leave their bigger kids there to play by themselves while to go about their house duties or work.

Kids playing at inflatable bouncers require minimal supervision from their parents. The interactive toys included in the bounce house can be very entertaining as well. Parents love it because they are educational. Examples of the interactive appendages of bounce houses would be slides, puzzles, and basketball hoops.

Don't waste the warm weather away. It only comes once in a whole year. And it is only during the warm weather that kids can truly go out in the sun without hesitation or worry. The bounce house is the perfect summer gift you can give your young ones. It is the next best thing to having a vacation spree out in the blue seas.

A bounce house comes in a complete set. When you buy one package, you'll get the bouncer itself, a repair kit, and the blower. You can set up the thing in as little as one hour. It is everything you need to make the otherwise hot summer more bearable and enjoyable for you and your kids.

Spend a few hours of fun in an inflatable bouncer. Share the pleasure with your kids. Or just use the time your kids are playing on it to do some important tasks without disturbance. So, aren't you convinced yet that warm weather and inflatable bouncers go together?

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Are Your Food Storage Containers Poisoning Your Family?

What could be easier than going to the fridge, pull the plastic container that you put the remains of last night's dive in and zap them in the microwave for a quick? Instant hot meal in three minutes. Also, depending on the type of container, instant shot of potentially toxic chemicals.

Clear polycarbonate plastic containers, with a number 7 on the ground, how can the most plastic baby bottles leach bisphenol A, the well-known endocrine disruptor, cause cancer in laboratoryAnimals, and possible source of hyperactivity and other behavioral disorders in children. So number 7 plastics are a no-no. Secondly, the plastic foams, as they are used in coffee cups, food containers from fast-food restaurants, and instant soups and pasta products on the number 6 of polystyrene. Styrene is known to leach from these containers. There is a possible endocrine disruptor and the reproductive system and is listed as a possible carcinogen by the International Agency for Cancer Research Yon.Third, flexible plastic polyvinyl chloride (PVC), is marked with the number 3 on the ground that contain phthalate compounds, including DEHP, which is banned in a number of problems with the liver that is connected to kidney, and spleen and in Europe.

These plastics are not good to have things around the house - much less the kitchen - but that's often where you find them. The elastic, sticky foil wrap sandwiches in and use of children in order to cover the remains? It is more than likely, PVCPhthalate film loaded with. This clear plastic deli containers entering some food? You have bisphenol A was in them. Think of these chemicals as evil spirits hiding in your containers and packages. Pop all of these things in the microwave - which is what many of us are not all the time - and you are in essence, these free spirits.

ÿThere are two simple solutions to this problem. The first is to ensure that all the plastics that you have marked in your kitchen, the number I, 2, 4 or 5These are the safest Ones. For example, there are some brands clear, plastic bags and containers, which are made of safer plastics. The problem is the boxes they come in does not often say what number they use from plastic. But there are many common brand-name versions of these products are safe, far more than we can display here. So here's my tip: Go to Green Guide, the website of National Geographic Magazine (thegreenguide.com) run. Click on the section called "Buying Guides", and then click"Plastic container" under the "kitchen". There you can find an extensive list that are safe and which are not.

My own choice is to use only glass containers. I ÿbypass the plastic problem as a whole. With clear glass, I know, I work with a recyclable material that can safely clean it when I washed them, and I did not mean to keep every few weeks. And if I open the refrigerator door and look at the glass jar inside, I know immediatelywhat in them.

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