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Let's get crafty, buildy, outsidey, and silly.
1. A tie-dye enactment kit to marque your summertime wholly groovy. With capable supplies for six people, and 18 bottles to screen up to 36 projects, you mightiness conscionable *have* to marque matching T-shirts up of your household vacation!
2. A classical catch shot set, due to the fact that thing says summertime much than telling the kids to spell extracurricular and propulsion a ball. And due to the fact that the shot sticks to the mitt, it's easier for littles to catch, too!

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Price: $3.74 (originally $4.99, disposable successful 3 colors chosen by Michaels)
3. A ribbon twirler, which — spot maine connected this — volition entertain a very wide property scope of kids... and possibly adjacent adults. The littles emotion to conscionable twirl successful circles, and the older kids volition enactment connected shows for you.
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Promising review: "Super fun. Liked however the ribbon was not excessively agelong truthful it did not resistance connected the floor." —Asthecrowfly
Price: $5.99 (originally $7.99)
4. A 48-pack of Crayola sidewalk chalk to get the kids extracurricular and utilizing their creativity. All the vicinity kids playing nicely extracurricular together? Chalk that up to bully parenting!
5. A glow-in-the-dark stone coating kit, which is truly a two-part activity: 1. coating the rocks and 2. going connected a locomotion and leaving successful them successful places to astonishment and delight your neighbors.
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Promising review: "Granddaughter loves to bash crafts. Rock coating is simply a favourite past clip of hers." —Beep Beep Beep
Price: $9.74 (originally $12.99)
6. A lightsaber-building kit if The Force is beardown with your inferior Jedis. This 24-piece kit makes 2 tiny airy sabers, but much importantly, it uses those STEM skills they've been moving connected each year.
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Price: $9.99 (originally $16.99)
7. A Boondoggle lanyard drawstring kit truthful you (okay, fine, your kids too) tin person the idyllic '90s-style summertime you each deserve. This 100-piece kit comes with 10 antithetic lanyard colors and tons of cardinal rings, lobster clasps, and drawback clip hooks truthful you tin marque gifts for everyone.
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Price: $36.35 (originally $51.94)
8. A Perler fused-bead kit, to circular retired your summertime nostalgia tour. There are 8,000 beads present (!!) truthful it'll past you for a while. Get this and you're beauteous overmuch moving the champion summer camp successful town.
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Promising review: "Super amusive and casual for my 4 twelvemonth aged to do. Of course, ma and dada bash the ironing" —mommylovestocraft
Price: $26.99
9. A 130-piece marble tally starter set, due to the fact that — arsenic I'm definite you retrieve — these are THE MOST fun. Set it up for marble tally races and fto the bully times, well, roll.
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Price: $53.76 (originally $76.80)
10. A Lego Friends guinea pig set that volition marque everything awesome — kids usage their good centrifugal skills to physique it and past prosecute their imaginations for hours and hours of small-world play.
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11. A three-piece kids' gardening set for those who privation to get extracurricular and get their hands dirty. Put your small to enactment and you mightiness beryllium planting the effect for a aboriginal gardening guru.
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Price: $2.49 (originally $4.99)
12. An Elmer's neon entity slime kit due to the fact that you don't request to messiness astir with wonky recipes you find connected Pinterest — a kit from these glue experts is what you request for a slimy (but not sticky!) bully time.
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Promising review: "Note a small of the activator goes a LONG way. This kit makes 2 sets of slime. We ened up lone needing 3 teaspoons full for each slime. The process is dump successful each glue and the adhd 2 teaspoons of activator and stirl A LOT. Add 1 spoon astatine a clip of further activator. Add the crunchy goo a small astatine a clip also. My 8 yr aged made the slime with small assistance from me. It was a blast to play with. It wholly h2o soluble truthful cleanable up is easy. Recommend utilizing precise blistery h2o and dishsoap to cleanable the bowl. Slime washed disconnected apparel and level easily. I’ll bargain again and decidedly recommend." —kjra
Price: $26.99
13. A 19-inch foam glider that works good wrong AND outside. It's truly astonishing however galore times kids tin propulsion 1 of these down the stairs, tally backmost up the stairs, and past conscionable bash it each implicit again without getting bored.
15. A 200-piece Disney puzzle featuring immoderate of their favourite characters. If the time has gone to pieces, and you consciousness similar things request to beryllium enactment backmost together, immoderate quiescent clip with a puzzle is the cardinal you need.
16. A construction portion sensory bin which includes sensory sand, tools, trucks, signs, and adjacent comes successful its ain retention case. Can you excavation it? Yes, you can!
17. A 350-piece carnal puppet kit, truthful your small animals tin marque their puppets and past enactment connected a show. Sounds similar a roaring bully time, right?
18. A wooden tract bowling set due to the fact that you've been striking retired erstwhile it comes to mounting up gait games — and present getting strikes tin beryllium a bully thing!
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Price: $14.99 (originally $19.99)
19. A 61-piece acceptable of Picasso tiles, a magnetic gathering acceptable that volition beryllium a staple successful your location for years to come. Pro tip: Rather than buying antithetic types of gathering sets, support adding caller ones to your collection. Makes for easier cleanup!
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Price: $19.49 (originally $25.99)
20. A six-pack of bubble wands, truthful you tin ever person a fewer astatine location and a fewer successful the car. Pro tip: If your kiddo keeps dropping and spilling the bubbles, portion it to thing unafraid (like the broadside of the location oregon the balcony) and conscionable person them dip the wand into it!
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Price: $3.74 (originally $4.99)
21. A tropical terrarium to bring those beachy vibes to your home, nary substance wherever you live. Kids tin customize the plan of it, past works the seeds and ticker them grow!
22. A container of 40 throwable overgarment balls truthful the kids tin get messy and splatter each different with color. The champion part? Cleanup is really beauteous casual — the extracurricular of the balls are made with seaweed truthful you don't person to prime up the pieces and the dye is washable. So spell ahead, crook each different into Pollock paintings!
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Price: $5.99 (originally $7.99, disposable successful six colors)
23. An animal sticker publication with 1,350 stickers for your kids to make scenes with astatine home, erstwhile you're retired to eat, and portion traveling. Just person them repetition the aureate regularisation of stickers: They lone spell connected paper!
24. A 10-piece fairy plot set that volition adhd immoderate other whimsy to summer. Bonus points if you permission the kids small surprises and treats "from the fairies" each summertime long. Think: shiny coins, small notes, and truthful on.
26. A gummy candy laboratory kit aka a subject acquisition and a small dainty combined. I deliberation the technological word for this is sweet, saccharine victory.
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Price: $18.74 (originally $24.99)
27. A bag of 15 balloons (for a grownup to stroke up!), due to the fact that aft watching Bluey, your kiddos volition beryllium asking you if they tin besides play keepy-uppy.
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Price: $2.99 (available successful 13 colors)
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