Stay At Home Moms
Children Help..
Use your old muffin pans to hold paint for finger painting. 

Save old teeshirts to wear as smocks when children want to paint.

Also, with white teeshirts, my kids love to get the washable magic markers and decorate them.  Then when I wash them, they get to do it all over again.  Hours of fun!

Save a good box (Zerox boxes are great) and draw a funny clown on it and cut out the mouth.  Then let the child throw little soft things inside it.  Plus, I use this box to hold all of my childrens crafts and paints to keep them together in one place!
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