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Have fun, create, learn, and help the planet with the young kids in your life through 50 colorful, enriching activities made from stuff you already have. With Recycle and Play , learn how to transform cardboard, bubble wrap, lids, containers, egg cartons, and other things that might otherwise be headed to a landfill into hours of engaging play at home . The fun, process-oriented projects invite children to be creative, explore senses, develop skills, and discover how things work, all while reinforcing the importance of reducing waste as part of a sustainable lifestyle . In this book, you’ll find tips on how to extend play and learning for each project as well as helpful hints to engage your kids to come up with fun additions and extensions of their own. While each of the projects includes clear step-by-step instructions and materials lists , you should feel free to adjust to your child’s interests and the materials you have on hand. Organized by the type of material used, the zero-waste projects include: Car Garage and Ramp made from toilet paper tubes and cardboard (Learning Skills: Fine motor skills, creative play, and color recognition) Mess-Free Bubble Wrap Painting (Learning Skills: Art, sensory exploration, creative skills, color recognition) Busy Board Lid Activity (Learning Skills: Fine motor skills, cognitive skills) Alligator Letter Feed made from egg cartons (Learning Skills: Letter recognition, fine motor skills) Milk Carton School Bus with family photos (Learning Skills: Social development, cognitive skills) Matching Memory Game made from wipe lids (Learning Skills: Cognitive skills, fine motor skills, memory, object recognition) Bond with your child, help them learn through play, and instill a lifelong respect for the environment with Recycle and Play . Review: Very fun and easy kids activities using things you already have at home! - Got two books for friends with little pre-kindergartners. All the games look so cute and super easy to make with everyday household items. We especially love all the games that focus on motor skills. The book is good quality with simple illustrated step by step instructions. Plus you can feel good about recycling and not having to spend lots of $$ on toys! These activities are perfect for keeping little ones busy for hours! Highly recommend!!! Review: Filled with hands-on colorful fun! - I have been following their #recycleandplay hashtag for years and am always wowed by the creativity. This related book by Agnes did not disappoint. It is filled with the cutest DIY toys and activities! There is a fun variety of ideas ranging from simple to make to ideas that require more effort (but totally worth it!). My favorites are the hippo game, alligator letter feed, and bunny planters. The book is the perfect for parents looking to keep younger children busy with inexpensive fun that you can create together. I love the interactive aspect to many of the ideas and many incorporate basic skills such as color sorting and math.








| Best Sellers Rank | #936,063 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #412 in Children's Papercrafts Books #572 in STEM Education #911 in Children's Recycling & Green Living Books |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 81 Reviews |
T**C
Very fun and easy kids activities using things you already have at home!
Got two books for friends with little pre-kindergartners. All the games look so cute and super easy to make with everyday household items. We especially love all the games that focus on motor skills. The book is good quality with simple illustrated step by step instructions. Plus you can feel good about recycling and not having to spend lots of $$ on toys! These activities are perfect for keeping little ones busy for hours! Highly recommend!!!
A**A
Filled with hands-on colorful fun!
I have been following their #recycleandplay hashtag for years and am always wowed by the creativity. This related book by Agnes did not disappoint. It is filled with the cutest DIY toys and activities! There is a fun variety of ideas ranging from simple to make to ideas that require more effort (but totally worth it!). My favorites are the hippo game, alligator letter feed, and bunny planters. The book is the perfect for parents looking to keep younger children busy with inexpensive fun that you can create together. I love the interactive aspect to many of the ideas and many incorporate basic skills such as color sorting and math.
N**Y
Creative and very fun activities!
I was so excited about this book that I bought two copies—one for my family and one as a gift. I always feel bad throwing packaging materials, such as bubble wrap away, and Agnes’s book gives a second life to those materials! There are several cute and very creative bubble wrap activities. I can’t wait to try the mess-free bubble wrap painting idea, because I won’t have brushes to clean up after. :D Highly recommend this book for anyone with kids, because it shows kids that loads of fun can be found in simple everyday items.
L**E
CRAFT, LEARN & GROW!
I cannot wait to start working on each project! The book is divided into chapters based on the recycle materials! The instructions are SIMPLE and very well written! Steps are very easy to follow accompanied with colorful photos! ! Best part about this book- you most likely have all the materials at home! NO FANCY supplies needed! Your little ones will have a blast crafting while learning through ART & Play afterwards! My kiddos cannot wait to create the Dinosaur Sensory Bag and many more!!!
H**3
Cute and crafty
What a colorful and fun way to recycle some used stuff into something worth playing with. I really loved the sensory bags. If your looking for some fun activities for pre-k child without spending a ton of money then try this. The memory card game was also very cute. Teachers and aides may also get some use out of this crafty book. Four stars! I received a complimentary copy to look at and voluntarily left a review.
C**S
So many creative ways to do an easy activity with your pre-K child!
This book is full of wonderful projects for me and my 4 year old to do together. I love that all of the materials required for the projects can be found around the house and it feels great to repurpose things that otherwise would go in the trash (paper tubes, bubble wrap, egg cartons, milk gallons, etc). It's a nice way to teach reusing and recycling to young children. I have two older kids so our craft closet is exploding with craft books and materials - we've done it all. But the ideas in this book are really creative and I haven't seen a book like this anywhere else - lots of neat ideas! So far, everything we've tried in this book are easy to do with a pre-K age child and each project has beautiful pictures that show steps in the process. We just got the book this week but our favorites so far are the alligator letter feed and the cardboard emotion wheel. I like how the book is organized by materials required. The instructions are simple and straightforward with pictures to help guide the kids as they're working.
F**R
Full of cool ideas to repurpose trash into fun activities!
My favorite part of this book? My kids get to see how our everyday trash can be transformed into creative hands-on learning activities. Many of the ideas are great projects for parents and kids to work on together. And kids get to play and learn with these fun DIY toys after. I am a fan of Agnes’ work and this book is a compilation of some of her best ideas! We have bookmarked so many projects in this book and cannot wait to get started!
T**A
Easy for Kids to Create
Recycle and Play has simple project instructions that make it easy for kids to follow. After flipping through the pages, my 7 year old daughter immediately started working on projects. She first made the pizza box pompom maze. I love that all of the projects can be made from our recycling bin and reuse items from our craft supplies.
G**Ś
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J**A
Perfect book of craft activities for your toddlers!
I love how fun and easy it is to set up these activities for your toddlers! They're so creative, inventive and importantly fun ! We love everything that Agnes does- from her Baking , cooking adventures with her toodler to interesting crafts and her epic costumes! This book is A treasure trove of ideas to entertain your little people! We tried 5 activities from the book already! Such fun 🎉🎉
V**E
Brilliant!
As a teacher I’m always looking for fresh ideas to engage children at school, this book is really something every teacher should have!
C**S
Just Wonderful
Recycle and Play is an absolute work of art in itself! You can see the love that’s gone into every page. The instructions are well written and so easy to follow. We love that the book encourages the up-cycling of household items. Our crafting wish list just got even bigger! A brilliant resource for preschool kids, Primary children and young at heart adults too!
K**7
The best book to keep my son busy!
We love upcycling but don’t always have ideas and I don’t always want to look online. Having this book always accessible in my son’s room has made him independently create things as the tutorial as very easy to follow. I definitely recommend
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