Recycle and Play

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

With Recycle and Play, learn how to turn items you already have around the house into fun, engaging, and enriching activities for young learners. Playful learning at home doesn't have to require expensive, specialized toys and resources. Each activity in Recycle and Play uses inexpensive materials like cardboard, paper tubes, plastic bottles, and egg cartons--materials that might even already be on their way to a landfill--and offers a clear, thoughtful invitation for hours of sensory play at home while reinforcing the importance of reducing waste to benefit the earth. 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 50 projects includes clear step-by-step instructions and materials lists, you should feel free to adjust to your child's interests and the materials you have on hand. Featured learning skills include:

• Fine motor skills
• Color recognition
• Sensory exploration
• Pretend play

Play is a crucial part of a child's cognitive development and is fantastic for sensory exploration, building creativity, and discovery about how things work!