Pure Play Tip Sheets
Easy Ideas for Using Recycled Items to Create Play Opportunities
#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 children...
#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
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 recycling...
#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 boxes are...
#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, dumping...
#repurposingforplay – Kitchen Utensils
Download Our Repurposing for Play – Kitchen Utensils Tip Sheet! A Window into a Child’s World She opens the cabinet and chooses. The treasure is transported into the living room and placed on the coffee table. Then she returns and selects again. Back and forth, she...
#repurposingforplay – Folding Tables
Download Our Repurposing for Play - Folding Tables Tip Sheet! What is a table, really? The eyes of an adult and the eyes of a child see differently. So a child can look at a table and see more than a place to sit and eat a meal. Can you think of ten different things a...
#repurposingforplay – Bed Sheets
Download Our Repurposing for Play - Bed Sheets Tip Sheet! Do you remember using sheets to make forts as a child? Blankets and sheets became the roofs and walls. Chairs, tables, and couches were the frames. Building was only one part of the fun. After making the fort...
#repurposingforplay – Cut Logs
Download Our Repurposing for Play - Cut Logs Tip Sheet! Unleashing Creativity from Leftover Logs A tree gets cut down. It becomes wood for a fire or chopped into mulch. The pieces could be used for so much more. Have you ever thought of how it could be used for play?...
#repurposingforplay – PVC Pipe
Download Our Repurposing for Play - PVC Pipe Tip Sheet! PVC Pipe: Who’s ready to Build? We have a big bin full of various sizes of PVC pipe and buckets of connectors. Next to it are bedsheets and clothespins. The lids are open and ready for children. Children peek in,...
#repurposingforplay – ADS Pipe
Download Our Repurposing for Play - ADS Pipe Tip Sheet! What Can ADS Pipe do to Make Play Amazing? What is ADS pipe? Before I became a play advocate, I had nothing to hang my hat onto with those words. Thems construction words. I’d let the person use the word and...