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4 Recycled Craft Activities for Babies and Toddlers
Make recycled crafts and playthings for your kids out of waste materials! Making projects with young children out of recycled materials is affordable, enjoyable, beneficial for fostering the development of new abilities, and excellent for the environment!
Here are four crafts made from recycled materials that you can make using baby wipe lids, paper rolls, plastic containers, and egg cartons.
1. Wipe lid photo board:
Although creating this recycled craft project requires some effort, the benefits for your infant are fantastic! As your child opens and closes the lids, they are developing their fine motor abilities. With belly time, sitting up, and reaching to play with the photo board, they develop their gross motor abilities. Playing hide and seek with the pictures will teach them about object permanence and improve their concentration and recall. As you communicate with one another, instruct and encourage your child, and point out and identify the people in each picture, they will also be honing their communication abilities.
You’ll Need:
- printed pictures of friends and family
- a big, robust piece of cardboard
- lids on baby wipes
- A glue stick or Elmers glue
- Hot glue sticks and a hot glue gun
- Paint, wrapping paper, contact paper, markers, and stickers are optional.
How You Act:
1. Use your paint, wrapping paper, or contact paper to cover your cardboard piece (optional).
2. Reduce the size of your pictures to that of the wipe lids. One lid is required for each picture.
3. Hot glue the wipe lids over the photos after you’ve hot glued them to the board.
4. (Optional) Decorate around the images or label them with the names of your loved ones using markers, stickers, or whatever else you can find.
5 Enjoy popping the lids off and viewing the pictures of your loved ones! With smaller infants, try playing peek-a-boo, or ask your child to point to each member of the family as you speak their name. Try challenging your child to find a relative while playing “memory” whenever the lids
2. Paper Roll Binoculars
It’s time to venture outdoors and see what you can discover! Make some binoculars out of paper rolls for your upcoming excursion!
You’ll Need:
- 2 paper rolls between 4 and 5 inches long
- Punch one hole only
- Glue
- String or yarn
- Stickers, crayons, and other decorative items are optional.
1. Glue the sides of two paper rolls together. Dry off.
2. Make a hole in the binoculars’ sides.
3. Thread the yarn or ribbon through the holes.
4. It’s optional to add stickers or crayons to the binoculars’ exterior.
5. ake your kid outside to explore nature through their own inventions. Look up at the sky, the trees, and any birds you may see.
3. Recycled Plastic Bird Feeder
Create a bird feeder for the birds in your neighbourhood to demonstrate your respect for nature.
You’ll Need:
- shallow, wide plastic container
- String
- Avian food
How You Act:
1. On the “4 corners” of the bowl, make 4 holes.
2. 2 pieces of string should be around 20′′ each.
3. Hold on to a tree limb outside.
4. Grow Seedlings in an Egg Carton
By planting seeds in your own garden, what better way to teach your young child about celebrating the Earth! Create your own seed beginning kit using an egg carton. As you observe, take care of, and raise your own food, there are so many educational opportunities!
You’ll Need:
- cardboard egg crate
- Soil
- Seeds
- drinking cup
1. Assist your youngster in filling each egg cup in the carton with soil.
2. Ask them to poke a hole in the centre of each cup with her finger. In each hole, put one or two seeds. Gently bury in dirt.
3. sprinkle some water on. Maintain them in a warm, sunny area.
4. Your child needs to remember to water the seeds every day. The soil must remain quite moist. If she doesn’t already know it, your youngster has to acquire a new vocabulary word.
5. You and your child can move the seedlings to a permanent location once they have germinated into little seedlings.
6. Before transferring the seedling outside, make sure the egg carton is drenched to the point of saturation. Cut the egg carton cup in half.
7. In the container you are moving to, make a hole.
8. Put the egg carton cup in the ground. It will disintegrate. Another wonderful word for your kid to learn is that! Describe how the word “decompose” means to decay or disintegrate into minute parts and become a part of the Earth.
9. Remind your child that daily watering will help their seedlings flourish. Ask them how they anticipate growing. You may also think about snapping a picture of the seedlings every week on the same day so your youngster can observe how they have grown over time.