#RecycleforPlay – Empty Bottles

#RecycleforPlay – Empty Bottles

Download Our Recycle for Play – Empty Bottles 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...
#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 containers in which laundry soap...
#Recycleforplay – small plastic containers

#Recycleforplay – small plastic containers

Download Our Recycle for Play – Small Plastic Containers Tip Sheet! 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...
#RecycleforPlay – cardboard boxes

#RecycleforPlay – cardboard boxes

Download Our Recycle for Play – 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

Download our Recycle for Play – Coffee Cans Tip Sheet! 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,...