Make this lesson fun. Many items you might have tossed out can be “recycled” into wonderful toys for your child.

Here are some ideas:

• Boxes can turn into houses, forts, doll houses, trains and a thousand other things.
• Old buttons, lace, rickrack, and scraps of material can be sewn onto old socks to make sock puppets.
• Milk cartons, cut in two, can be blocks or photo cubes.
• Plastic bottles, containers, and shaving cream caps are fun to use in water play.
• Scraps of gift wrap are great for making collages and decorating homemade picture frames.
• Paper lunch sacks, if not soiled, can turn into hand puppets.

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