The kids are home and they’re bored. They won’t go out and they’re done playing with the Christmas and Hanukkah presents you bought them and if they don’t get out of your hair you will kill one of them… then other – so (s)he can’t tell the cops who did it.

Well, you can engage them in a home project that might be fun like making soap crayons. Not from lye, though that would be exciting, but from left over pieces of soap that every household gathers. Click here to find out how. There. I just saved a few lives.

Here’s another home kiddie project to reuse crayon stubs that are too small for their little fingers.

Or, you could hit the Home Depot and come home with the supplies you need to build a pneumatic potato gun which could be much more fun that crayons.