Every time I recycle a toilet paper tube, I think it’s a missed opportunity for a craft. Here’s one good idea: Collect a few of those little helicopter seeds from a nearby maple tree and turn them into a dragonfly craft by following this easy tutorial from Juise. Your kid can pretend to fly it around the yard all day.
Emily Westbrooks is a freelance writer and blogger from Maine. Based in Dublin, she's married to an Irishman and an adoptive mom to Maya and Noah. She writes about travel, parenting, adoption and fostering for sites like Romper and Moxie & Mabel, as well as for her own blog, From China Village.