How to Make an Aggravation Board Game with Marble Storage

By: Stephenie Wolney
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Make this DIY board game for family fun, using this free template available as a printable PDF or a Cricut Design Space File. This marble game includes storage for marbles, dice, and even room for playing cards or other small game pieces. Follow these plans to make this game, and read to the end for the rules to learn how to play this awesome game. This board game is fully customizable. Feel free to change up the colours to match your marbles and make it with or without the storage compartment.

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How to Make a DIY Wooden Growth Chart Ruler

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Learn to make this wooden growth chart ruler with this step by step tutorial. This oversized measuring stick features a slider to simplify measuring the height of your little ones and this tutorial includes an idea for personalizing the chart with your child’s name and birth stats. This growth chart makes the perfect gift for any family and will make a lasting keepsake. This tutorial includes an exclusive Cricut Design Space file to make this growth chart even easier to make and customize.

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5 Unexpected Ways to Use a Cricut for Wood Projects

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Try these 5 creative hacks that no one talks about. These tips are perfect for personalizing, customizing and improving precision and detail in all of your wood projects, without having to buy an expensive CNC machine. These ideas are especially valuable if you have a craft business and are selling wooden products! You may have…

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DIY Father’s Day Gift From Kids: Apron With Handprints

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My husband loves to cook, especially outdoors. This apron is the perfect Father’s Day gift for dads who love to cook with their kids. It is available as a free Cricut Design Space project and is fully customizable with your child’s handprints. In this tutorial I’ll show you how I made these aprons two different…

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DIY Sensory Board For Toddlers: I Spy Game

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This sensory board was designed to mimic the “I Spy” books that most of us are probably familiar with. This board is extremely easy and inexpensive to make and is perfect for learning through play. Use this board to introduce new textures, colours, and vocabulary words. You can quiz your child and have them find…

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DIY Wooden Rainbow Sorting Toy With Peg Dolls

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This Montessori style toy is the perfect combination of open ended and learning toy. The rainbow can be painted in one colour per ring or in multiple shades per ring to alter the difficulty. The peg dolls are perfect for open ended and small parts play. Build this beautiful handmade toy and watch your child…

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Crochet Toucan Amigurumi – Free Pattern

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Add Tulley the Toucan to your amigurumi collection with this free pattern! Tulley is part of The Rainbow Collection. This pattern is easy to follow in a clear table format. Pictures have been included for clarity, along with clear descriptions. Below are links to the other two cuties in The Rainbow Collection. I have always…

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DIY Mother’s Day Gift: Leather Photo Keychain

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This personalized leather (or faux leather) keychain is the perfect DIY Mother’s Day gift for grandma! What grandma doesn’t love a cute photo of a grand baby and a catchy saying? This keychain is easy to make and is so sweet. Choose from three designs and customize it with your choice of text, photos, and…

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DIY Wooden Shelves & Brackets

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These wooden shelves with brackets make the perfect open shelving for any room of your home. They are inexpensive and take very little time to make. Shelving is always great for using the vertical space in your home for storage and décor. I made these shelves with my daughter’s nursery in mind. I wanted a…

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DIY Wooden Balancing Blocks

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These Montessori inspired wooden gemstones are perfect for open ended play. You can stack them, balance, them, and use them for imaginative play. Not only are they fun to play with, but they help with fine motor skills. They also make incredible shelf décor and if the wood is left raw they add a natural,…

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DIY Wooden Wall Hooks: Make Adorable Food Themed Hooks

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These wooden wall hooks are not only cute décor for your child’s room or nursery, but they are also super functional and completely unique. Do you ever wish you had a place in your child’s room to hang a towel or display a cute outfit you’ve been planning? These little food themed wall hooks are perfect for that. DIY your own custom set today with this free tutorial!

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DIY Wooden Wreath for Your Front Door & Free Cut File

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Last year we painted our front door blue and spruced up the front of our house. I built us an address plaque (tutorial for that here) and we bought a new mailbox. I’ve been planning on making a welcome sign for our front door to add to the curb appeal and finally got around to…

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Easy Easter Egg Hunt for Toddlers

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This Easter egg hunt (or scavenger hunt) is perfect for toddlers. It is so quick to set up – I literally did it the night before our Easter egg hunt and it turned out great. We did our Easter egg hunt on Good Friday, because my husband works the rest of the weekend. My daughter…

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Bring Spring to Your Kitchen: DIY Wooden Sign Tutorial and 6 SVGs

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I designed these SVGs to put on a reversible, interchangeable sign on my two tiered kitchen stand. Spring cheer always inspires me, especially after a long northern winter. I went with a bright colour palette for most of the designs, but you can really choose whatever colours you want. To see how I made the…

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The Ultimate Guide: Ironing Vinyl Onto Wood

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This guide covers ironing heat transfer vinyl onto stained, painted and finished wood surfaces. I did 18 tests, so you don’t have to. So Many Questions Have you ever wondered what would happen when you apply iron on (heat transfer) vinyl on to wood? Have you ever wondered what would happen if the wood was…

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Reversible, Interchangeable Wooden Kitchen Sign

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This wooden sign is Perfect for tiered tray décor. You can customize it and easily change the sign faces for any season. This sign is a simple design and it can be made to any dimensions to fit your space. Swap out the sign faces and change up your décor in seconds. I designed this…

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Make Your Own Wooden Address Plaque

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Complete with hand cut numbers and diagonal slats I was commissioned to make this sign for a friend’s front entrance. I based the design off of a sign I made for my own home about a year ago. I altered the design based for her space and added a slightly different style, but I think…

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DIY Wooden Stacking Name Blocks & Baby Animal SVGs

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Wooden toys are my favourite. I love that they can look beautiful and teach my kids so much. I love how they encourage imaginative play and help with gross and fine motor skills. Jump to Baby Animal SVGs I made this toy for my 8 month old daughter. She is at the grasping-and-banging-toys-together stage right…

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Family Heirloom Eggs: DIY Painted Wooden Easter Eggs

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With Free SVG Cut Files Paint your own wooden Easter egg set for Easter egg hunts, décor, and a cherished family tradition! Every year since my oldest daughter’s first Easter we have been doing Easter egg hunts. I hide the eggs around the house with clues and leave the first clue in plain sight so…

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Easter Egg Display Stand

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Display your Easter eggs, whether they are hard boiled and dyed or wooden ones like the ones I created for Easter egg hunts I designed this project as a way to turn my family heirloom Easter eggs into a décor item for a cheerful spring vibe in my family room. This allowed me to not…

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