Playing recycling: children’s crafts with plastic bottles
When we were children, our most important toys were fantasy and imagination. All it took was a box or any other material found in the house to create the most entertaining games.
The fact that children build their own toys (perhaps with the help of mom and dad) is still an excellent idea to stimulate imagination and dexterity and more. Teaching how to play by recycling poor and commonly used materials, is certainly a good example to educate children to respect the environment as well as the easiest way to have original and fun toys at no 😉 cost
The materials that can be used are truly endless: paper, boxes, cardboard, fabric cuttings, wool threads, bottles, caps, buttons and much more.
In short, I would say that just look around. For example, some time ago I talked about how to create toys by recycling cardboard, how to create sensory games and musical instruments with materials found at home. Today I’ll give you another idea: here’s how to create games with plastic bottles.
Children’s crafts with plastic bottles
Floating animals
One of the most common things you can do with plastic bottles is to create cute little animals to use to make lots of games.
You can recycle transparent or colored bottles and then decorate them in many ways such as buttons, threads and paper and much more. You can make them look like many different types of animals. I, for example, found on the web a very nice idea to turn bottles into fun floating turtles to play with. To make them, just take a kitchen sponge, cut it out and then fix it on the bottom of the bottle.
Bizarre piggy banks
Another nice little job to do with plastic bottles are piggy banks. With a little imagination and dexterity you can really create it in a thousand ways. In this example there are two types of piggy banks made from white milk bottles. Just markers and cardboard to glue to create really nice and bizarre piggy banks.
Sensory bottles
Plastic bottles can also be used to create sensory games for very young children. In this case, just insert small objects inside the bottle to make noise and on the cap colored ribbons that children can look at, touch, pull.
Seedling jars
It’s nice to teach children how simple plastic bottles can be transformed into a cool and welcoming place to live seedlings. In this case you can have fun not only to transform the bottle into a but the children can continue the “game” watering and watching their seedling grow over time. Link here → trays for seedlings
Birdhouses
If you have a garden, you can ask the children to transform a plastic bottle into a Birdhouse. I find it a very cute idea not only because the children can have fun decorating the house with paints and brushes, but also because it’s a way to bring them closer to nature and teach them respect for animals.
Kathryn Barlow is an OB/GYN doctor, which is the medical specialty that deals with the care of women's reproductive health, including pregnancy and childbirth.
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