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Arts and crafts for toddlers and children.

Learn the Dinosaur Families with Play Doh

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The dinosaurs can be grouped into three primary families: Sauropods, Theropods, and Ornithiscians. Sauropods were long-necked dinosaurs like Apatosaurus, theropods were bipedal dinosaurs like raptors, and Ornithiscians included triceratops.

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What Are the Primary Colors?

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Primary colors are the three colors that make all the other colors. The primary colors are red, blue, and yellow. If you can only bring three paints with you on a trip, bring red, blue, and yellow, the primary colors. You can make the other colors with these colors.

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How to Make a Landscape
with Play-Doh

Medium: Play-Doh with shape cutters

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It's so simple to make a Play-Doh landscape. This activity allows children to make a landscape rich in color without making a mess. You don't even have to mix Play-Doh colors for this project. All of the colors will remain intact. Spread out blue playdough, and cut out squares with a square cutting tool. Lay out two rows of blue squares on paper. You now have a sky. (see picture below).

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Making Play Dough Pictures from Simple Shapes

Medium: Play-Doh with shape cutters

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Did you know that you can make pictures with simple shapes? Let's dive into a fun craft. The ingredients are simple. Just find your favorite colors of Play-Doh and some shape cutters. Circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons... whichever shapes you like!

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