Description
Book SynopsisHave fun, create, learn, and help the planet with the young kids in your life through 50 colorful, enriching activities made from stuff you already have. With
Recycle and Play, learn how to transform cardboard, bubble wrap, lids, containers, egg cartons, and other things that might otherwise be headed to a landfill into
hours of engaging play at home. The fun, process-oriented projects invite children to be creative, explore senses, develop skills, and discover how things work, all while reinforcing the importance of
reducing waste as part of a sustainable lifestyle.
In this book, you’ll find
tips on how to extend play and learning for each project as well as helpful hints to engage your kids to come up with fun additions and extensions of their own.
While each of the projects includes clear
step-by-step instructions and
materials lists, you should feel free to adjust to your child’s intere
Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 FANTASTIC FOOD BOXES
Pizza Box Pompom Maze
Cardboard Box TV
Pizza Box Bean Toss
Feeding Elephant Game
Food Box Hippo Game
CHAPTER 2 CREATIVE CARDBOARD CREATIONS
Tracing Lines and Shapes
Shape Sensory Puzzle
Rainbow Cardboard Maze
Early Math Pompom Game
Cardboard Emotion Wheel
CHAPTER 3 PLAYFUL PAPER TUBE PROJECTS
Paper Tube Caterpillar Threading
Car Garage and Ramp
Seal Ball-and-Cup Game
Crazy Paper Hair Cuts
Paper Tube Shape Stamping
CHAPTER 4 BEST BUBBLE WRAP PLAY
Mess-Free Bubble Wrap Painting
Whale Bubble Wrap Art
Ice Cream Stamping and Counting
Bubble Wrap Lion
Clothespin Butterfly Numbers
CHAPTER 5 CAPTIVATING LID AND CAP ACTIVITIES
Turtle Lid Animal Counting
Busy Board Lid Activity
Ladybug Lid Counting
Rainbow Shooting Star Alphabet
Bottle Cap Maze
CHAPTER 6 BREATHTAKING BOTTLE IDEAS
Feed The Pig Game
Unicorn Bottle Game
Aquarium Sensory Bottle
Balloon Pompom Launcher
Flower Jar Planters
CHAPTER 7 EGG-CITING EGG CARTONS PROJECTS
Alligator Letter Feed
Veggie and Fruit Garden Color Sort
Egg Carton Geoboard
Sensory Dump Truck
Egg Carton Flower Threading
CHAPTER 8 MARVELOUS MILK CARTONS AND JUGS
Milk Carton School Bus
Shape Milk Carton Houses
Sloth Milk Jug Toss
Milk Carton Bunny Planters
Sight Words Peacock Jug
CHAPTER 9 SENSATIONAL SENSORY BAGS
Caterpillar Color Match
Sensory Bag Maze
Aquarium Dig
Sprinkles Sensory Letter Hunt
Dinosaur Sensory Bag
CHAPTER 10 WONDERFUL WIPE LID ACTIVITIES
Sensory Board
Wipe Lid Photo Houses
Matching Memory Game
Wipe Lid Yarn Pulling
Monster Lid Sight Words
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
