My love for recycling yogurt containers in play based learning continues to grow and grow. It makes such good sense. It gives extended life to single use plastic. It cuts down on the additional plastic of which many store bought toys and learning materials are made. They’re not an eyesore. And they’re free! If your little one is expressing interest in color recognition and sorting, this activity is a super simple one to add to your learning times. (To make this activity even more simple, you could also replace the painted pasta with pom poms or other loose parts for sorting.) MATERIALS Assorted Dry Pasta Assorted Colors of Acrylic Paint…
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Yogurt Cups for Play Based Learning
Play based learning doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. And much of the packaging for the food we buy can be repurposed for creating some simple learning materials. Yogurt cups are a perfect example of this. I began saving these when Graham was about six months old. I’d throw a stack of them into our diaper bag and we’d have some lightweight building blocks to stack whenever we needed them. (Well, at that point I would stack them and Graham would knock them down. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.) I’ve become a bit of a Chobani purist simply because I’m so grateful for the thought behind their packaging. This post might…
