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Easy to Make Educational Kids’ Placemats

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Make these fun and easy kid-friendly educational placemats to foster manners, healthy eating, and conversation at dinner time!

Learn how to make these fun and easy kid-friendly educational placemats to foster manners, healthy eating, and conversation at dinner time! They are an easy printable DIY that you and your children will love! #kidsprintables #kidsactivities #thesummeryumbrella

Hello! I’m Kimberly from Bugaboo Creates (formerly bugaboo, mini, mr and me). Over on my blog, I share the creative endeavors of my crazy family of 6 – from kids’ crafts to DIY home projects to holiday DIY’s, sewing, recipes and more! We love to make things, and I love to photograph it all. Today I’m so excited to share a project that I love, that’s so easy to make using some of LZ’s beautiful SVG files.

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    How to Make Interactive, Kid-Friendly, Educational Placemats

    You can create cute, interactive placemats for your kids with very little effort, and you can use them in so many different applications! Take a look:

    What you need:

    • Printer 
    • Card Stock
    • Laminator
    • Full Sheet Laminator Pouches
    • Dry Erase Markers
    • Meals and Memories Made Here SVG file
    • Food pyramid image file

    How to Print Your Kids’ Placemats

    First, create a download your SVG and image files. Put them into a two page document, landscape orientation, one file on each page.

    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating

    Make sure your printer is set to print two-sided.

    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating

    Print out a placemat for every person in your family. They should have the “meals and memories made here” on one side and the food pyramid on the other side.

    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating

    Laminating Your Placemats

    Now, sandwich them into your thermal laminator pouches.

    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating
    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating

    Run the kids’ placemats through the laminator, one at a time. If there are bubbles or places that aren’t as smooth as you’d like, just run it through a second time.

    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating

    Once they are all done going through the laminator, you should have enough placemats for the family!

    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating

    Tips for Using Your Kids’ Placemats

    Set the table! My kids think setting out placemats is super fancy, and they like setting the table more when we use them.

    Learn how to make these fun and easy kid-friendly educational placemats to foster manners, healthy eating, and conversation at dinner time! They are an easy printable DIY that you and your children will love! #kidsprintables #kidsactivities #thesummeryumbrella

    They use the pictures as a diagram for where to put the utensils…

    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating

    And then place the plate and cup after. Table-setting etiquette made easy!

    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating

    We also use the placemats to talk about healthy eating. Getting your children involved is one of the best ways to encourage good eating habits. They can look on the pyramid and then draw their version of a healthy meal on the plate.

    Learn how to make these fun and easy kid-friendly educational placemats to foster manners, healthy eating, and conversation at dinner time! They are an easy printable DIY that you and your children will love! #preschool #printable #thesummeryumbrella

    Sometimes I make checkboxes on the placemats next to the food pyramid levels, and have the kids check off how many servings of each they’ve had that day.

    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating
    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating

    And then you can just erase it all off for next time!

    how to make DIY kids placemats to encourage healthy eating

    On top of teaching them about nutrition and eating a balanced diet, we also use these kids’ placemats during the meal to have a little more fun at dinner time. We either have the kids write down or draw a picture of a question they want everyone to answer, then during the meal we take turns moving our plates to reveal the next question we’ll all answer! We also sometimes write or draw our favorite family memories.

    Learn how to make these fun and easy kid-friendly educational placemats to foster manners, healthy eating, and conversation at dinner time! They are an easy printable DIY that you and your children will love! #printables #kids #thesummeryumbrella

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    About Kimberly Mueller

    Kimberly is the creative force behind the blog Bugaboo Creates, where she chronicles her adventures in DIY, crafting, sewing and photography. She loves the creative process and writing, so an artsy/craftsy blog is the perfect fit! She is always looking for the next way to spend her creative energy, and has newly discovered a love of hand-lettering, party planning and large home DIY projects. She lives in Wisconsin with her love, her four crazy kids and a cat. They join in her crazy schemes as often as they can.

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