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    23 Easy DIY Projects You Can Do With Your Kids This Summer

    Fill all the free time with these easy, adorable, and fun craft projects.

    1. Before you get started on crafting, help the kids put together a craft box.

    2. Turn any picture into a temporary tattoo.

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    Help your kid find their favorite pictures on the internet, and use temporary tattoo paper to create a kid-friendly tattoo sleeve.

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    3. Go under the sea with these paper plate jellyfish.

    4. Head outside and make the biggest bubbles your kids have ever seen.

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    Once you've created the bubble "wand," your kids will entertain themselves for hours seeing who can make the biggest bubble.

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    5. Spruce up those typical alphabet magnets by dipping them in paint.

    6. Turn a watercolored piece of paper into a beautiful bracelet.

    7. Conduct a ~scientific experiment~ that creates a messy styrofoam slime.

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    You'll probably want to step in when you have to put the styrofoam in the blender, but this craft is actually very simple—and fun!

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    8. Don't be afraid to get a bit messy with this spray bottle art project.

    9. Challenge your kids to make as many birds as they can think of out of paper plates.

    10. Provide your kids with endless entertainment with this glow-in-the-dark glitter slime.

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    This slime is just as impressive in the light as it is in the dark.

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    11. Get groovy with these DIY lava lamps.

    12. Make gemstone soaps together. Then, turn bath time into a treasure hunt.

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    Maybe some of the treasure can end up in ~your~ shower, too.

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    13. Let your child release his or her inner artist with this tissue paper art.

    14. Make your own fireworks with this brilliant marble art.

    15. Create a place to display all the artwork your kids have been working on all summer.

    16. Make bath time fun with this squishy soap that's moldable like clay.

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    Your kids can spend bath time making soap waves for soap fish to swim through, pursued by a soap submarine.

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    17. Step up your sidewalk chalk game with this foam sidewalk paint.

    18. Celebrate Fourth of July with these fun poppers.

    19. Add some color to white clothing with this super-easy tie-dyeing technique.

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    Let your kids fill in white shoes, hats, or bags with different colors of permanent marker, and drop on rubbing alcohol to create the tie-dye look.

    Watch how it's made on Nifty.

    20. As another alternative to traditional tie dye, use Kool Aid to makeover white shirts.

    21. Get rid of bad dreams with these dreamcatchers.

    22. Make your own bowling alley outside with tin cans.

    23. Create a school of fish for the kids' walls with origami art.