Maker Monday plays with paper this week to create Paper People.

Here’s a new way to play with marbles and experiment with gravity.

Kids have been making macaroni crafts for generations. With this week’s Maker Monday project, part of the fun is dyeing the macaroni as the first step.

Little music makers can throw a parade with this week’s Maker Monday project, Cardboard Kazoos.

When over-excited kids are in need of a chill pill, reach for this Calming Sensory Bottle.

This outdoor Maker Monday activity — Ice Boat Racers — helps cool off energetic kids with an icy splash.

Summer and bubbles are a natural fit. We pulled together three of our favorite bubble-related Maker Monday activities to take advantage of outdoor play.

Yarn Art is a fun way to learn about colors, develop fine motor skills and explore creativity.

Whether your outdoor adventures take place in neighborhood woods or on sandy beaches, it’s always helpful to have a Nature Treasure Bag on hand.

Kids love watching the night sky light up with cracking fireworks. This week’s Maker Monday offers a fun way to paint a Summer Fireworks landscape using an unusual, homemade paintbrush.

Kids can make their intrepid thrill-seekers from pipe cleaners, then launch them to sail in the breeze before gently landing back on earth.

Playing outdoors is loads of fun when the play includes interactive STEM activities, like this week’s Maker Monday experiment, a Blow-up Balloon.

Junior paleontologists will have fun constructing Dino Skeletons in this week’s Maker Monday activity.

Kids can consider their skeletal structure when constructing a Robot Hand, this week’s Maker Monday project. 

This week’s Maker Monday project gives kids a chance to create a Bubble Pipe that produces clouds of bubbles that rise with the breeze. 

With shaving cream representing clouds and food coloring giving a visual of rain sinking through via gravity, kids can learn a lot about weather.

Kids will have fun learning about colors with this STEAM Maker Monday project.

This week’s Maker Monday project celebrates sports with No-Sew Fan Pillows made from T-shirts.

Maker Monday visits the art of origami to create fun Paper Puppets. Moms will likely remember the basic folds from their younger days making Fortune Tellers or Cootie Catchers. 

A hot bath can be more fun by tossing in a couple of Bath Bombs and watching them fizz for a luxuriously scented soak. Kids can have fun making Bath Bombs themselves, measuring ingredients, mixing and molding.