Recycle and Play: Awesome DIY Zero-Waste Projects to Make for Kids - 50 Fun Learning Activities for Ages 3-6

by Agnes Hsu

Overview

Have 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 interests and the materials you have on hand.

Organized by the type of material used, the zero-waste projects include:

• Car Garage and Ramp made from toilet paper tubes and cardboard (Learning Skills: Fine motor skills, creative play, and color recognition)
• Mess-Free Bubble Wrap Painting (Learning Skills: Art, sensory exploration, creative skills, color recognition)
• Busy Board Lid Activity (Learning Skills: Fine motor skills, cognitive skills)
• Alligator Letter Feed made from egg cartons (Learning Skills: Letter recognition, fine motor skills)
• Milk Carton School Bus with family photos (Learning Skills: Social development, cognitive skills)
• Matching Memory Game made from wipe lids (Learning Skills: Cognitive skills, fine motor skills, memory, object recognition)

Bond with your child, help them learn through play, and instill a lifelong respect for the environment with Recycle and Play.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760373194
Publisher:	Quarry Books
Publication date:	01/11/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	16 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Agnes Hsu is a California mom of 3 young ones. She is the founder of the colorful, creative website for kids, hellowonderful.co, and co-host of the popular Instagram @RecycleandPlay account where the best playful recycled learning ideas are shared. Like her kids, she loves anything rainbow and is a believer in being kind. You can often find her creating with her kids, helping her daughter with her kindness Rainbow Rock Project to raise money for charity, and in the kitchen working on her kids’ food site helloyummy.co.

Agnes Hsu is a California mom of 3 young ones. She is the founder of the colorful, creative website for kids, hellowonderful.co, and co-host of the popular Instagram @RecycleandPlay account where the best playful recycled learning ideas are shared. Like her kids, she loves anything rainbow and is a believer in being kind. You can often find her creating with her kids, helping her daughter with her kindness Rainbow Rock Project to raise money for charity, and in the kitchen working on her kids' food site helloyummy.co.

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
 

Editorial Reviews

Recycle and Play is a one-stop resource for turning the ordinary into extraordinary! When Agnes and I co-founded the popular Recycle and Play Instagram community @recycleandplay, we created a collaborative effort to highlight repurposed common household items as value-add play resources. This book takes that effort to the next level by consolidating everyday activities into a guided visual experience that reinforces the importance of extending play and reducing waste. Agnes shines in her ability to simplify each procedure and associate the unique learning skills developed. I consider Recycle and Play a must-have tool for any caretaker or educator's sensory play toolkit.—Myriam Sandler, @mothercould

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