#RecycleforPlay – Empty Bottles

#RecycleforPlay – Empty Bottles

Click here for our quick tip sheet. Welcome to our series: #RecycleForPlay. In this series, we will describe how household items that are regularly discarded can be reused and recycled for play.  We want our children to learn. We want our children...
#RecycleforPlay – laundry soap containers

#RecycleforPlay – laundry soap containers

Water is necessary to sustain life, and so is play. So, it’s only natural that water should be something extremely attractive to utilize for play. But often water isn’t available where a child is playing, now it can be! Those wonderful...
#Recycleforplay – small plastic containers

#Recycleforplay – small plastic containers

small plastic containers – tip sheet (1) So much of our food comes packaged in plastic containers: yogurt, sour cream, butter, margarine, cereal, nuts, fruit, icing, etc. And once we use the product, we toss the container into our recycling bin. But what could...
#RecycleforPlay – cardboard boxes

#RecycleforPlay – cardboard boxes

cardboard boxes – tip sheet You have likely already experienced this…the toy you’ve purchased is laying on the floor while your child uses the box as a drum (or however else they have been inspired).   Why is it that cardboard...
#Recycleforplay – coffee cans

#Recycleforplay – coffee cans

Those bright red, blue, green and yellow plastic coffee cans are valuable play things! The coffee cans store things and stack neatly because the lid fits so nicely. They are also durable for banging on, dumping into, and pouring out of. Since they are so playfully...