Seventy Five Fun Things To Make And Do By Yourself

Being alone can be fun with this collection of solitary projects such as creating noisemakers, making a comb kazoo, collecting bugs, building a house of cards, folding paper airplanes, and other activities.

Crafts and activities divided into three categories (noise-makers, stuff to do outside, and stuff to do inside) and ranging from water-drop mouth noise to walking on the ceiling.

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