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Issue’s Theme:
Recycling
Today many children’s toys are
so realistic that they prohibit imaginative play.
Instead of buying play food, toy cars and hundreds
of building blocks, give children a container of
safe, used items and let their imaginations run
wild. While providing a valuable child development
activity, you also promote a recycling lesson that
saves time, money and the environment.
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Watch “Share
the Earth Day” programs
Friday, April 20
Curious George, 3:30
p.m.
“The All-Animal Recycled Band”
Clifford the Big Red Dog,
4 p.m.
“Doggie Garden”
Dragon Tales, 4:30
p.m.
“Green Thumb”
It’s a Big, Big World,
5 p.m.
“The Disappearing Waterhole”
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| Activity: Let’s
Use It Again
Materials:
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A box of discarded objects (toilet paper rolls,
empty milk cartons, string, rubber bands, cash
register receipts, foil, egg cartons, candy
wrappers)
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Liquid glue
- Paper
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As you show the children each object, see if
they can tell you what it is and what it is
used for.
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Ask the children if the items can be good for
something else.
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When they have finished telling you their ideas,
allow the children to follow through by making
something from a recycled item.
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Display the items.
Activity from Mister Rogers’ Plan &
Play Book, 1991, Family Communications, Inc.
Used with permission. |
| Where Does the Garbage Go? (Revised
Edition)
By Paul Showers and Randy Chewning
Bob’s Recycling Day (Bob the Builder)
By Annie Auerbach
Recycling (Little Green Reader)
By Meredith Costain
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Waste and Recycling (First Starts)
By Janine Amos
Recycle: A Handbook for Kids
By Gail Gibbons
The Great Trash Bash
By Loreen Leedy
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