Outdoor Projects
These cool outdoor craft ideas from FamilyFun will keep the kids amused during long summer days.
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- Badges of Fun
- To earn our first badge, we invite your family to get outside and enjoy your own backyard. It's a great place for creative and energizing family adventures.
- Get the Backyard Fun Badge!
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- All-Around-the-Yard Obstacle Course
- Add true kid appeal to your home with this creative idea for a backyard obstacle course.
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- Berlese Funnel
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- Check out what's living in the ground under your feet with this homemade version of a tool entomologists use.
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- Big, Bold Backyard Art
- DROP THAT SMOCK! These large-scale painting projects, built for the backyard and great for a group, are as much about the marvelously messy ... Read More
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- Camp Mail
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- This easy-to-make mailbox creates a fun diversion on your camping trip.
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- Confetti Launcher
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- Fireworks happen only after dark, but this Fourth of July craft creates a pop of color any time of day.
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- Family Sign
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- Personalize your fall campout with this decorative name sign.
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- Festive Flop
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- This merry outdoor spoof will have passersby doing double takes to see who fell into the bushes while hanging holiday decorations. ... Read More
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- Freeze-pop Friezes
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- Here's a cool way to be creative on a hot summer day -- the more these paint-filled pops melt, the better they work.
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- Hand-yos
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- Reach out and touch someone — from five feet away! — with this cross between a beanbag and a yo-yo that enables kids in wheelchairs to play tag. ... Read More
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- How to Build a Bottle Rocket
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- This air-powered rocket may be light, but it's no lightweight: it flies impressively far, fast, and high.
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- Inspired by ... the Artist of the Everyday
- To say Keri Smith wants us to think outside the box is a radical understatement. Keri would invite you to climb inside the box and scrawl ... Read More
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- Instant Friends Kit
- Turn plain rocks and twigs into entertaining creatures -- a great craft for your summer camping trip.
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- Magical Music Tree
- Add true kid appeal to your home with this enchanting backyard musical creation.
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- Making Tracks
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- Capture the moment of discovery, and celebrate the glories of spring, by making a plaster cast of an animal print.
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- Monster Mural
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- Need a fun idea for a backyard party? Dip rubber spike balls in tempera paint, then toss them at a paper-covered wall to create monster-shaped ... Read More








