Keep them busy with these portable playsets
Make your own travel play sets and wow the kids!
Every parent knows the frustration of trying to keep your children busy during a long car trip over the holiday period, but don’t despair, because these easy to make play sets will keep them busy for hours!
Have a look at this video that was posted by Tiger Souvannakoumane (BuzzFeed Motion Pictures Staff) and rachelgaewski (BuzzFeed Staff) on the Nifty Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/buzzfeednifty/videos/1906300429624680/
These easy ‘Do It Yourself’ projects only need a few supplies and will not take hours to make, so look at the instructions below, and try one or two for yourself!
For the building bricks play set, you will need an empty tin, building bricks (Lego or any other brand), hot glue sticks and a hot glue gun.
Instructions:
1. Hot glue building bricks board onto the inside of the tin lid.
2.Place building bricks inside.
For the drawing activity case, you will need an empty tin, crayons and some sticky notes.
Instructions:
Place crayons inside tin.
Stick sticky notes onto the inside of the tin lid.
To make the fishing play set you will need an empty tin, felt, scissors, paper clip, a popsicle stick, string and a magnet.
Instructions: 1. Cut two fish shapes out of felt.
2. Apply hot glue and stick paper clip to one side of one fish. Stick other fish cut out on top.
3. Cut popsicle stick to size of tin.
4. Tie string on the end and hot glue it down.
5. Tie and hot glue magnet on the other end of the string.
To make the Tic-Tac-Toe/ Noughts and Crosses play set you will need an empty tin, paper and a marker
Instructions:
1.Cut out paper to the size of the tin.
2. Draw out tic-tac-toe/ noughts and crosses board.
3. Add five buttons of one colour, and five more of another colour.
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