Friday, August 1, 2008

Milk Cap Memory Game

We recycle our milk jugs, but can't recycle our plastic caps. I started saving them about a year ago, and finally came up with a good use for them, a simple memory game made with stickers and an accompanying book.


I picked the book up at Goodwill, complete with two sets of matching stickers. We placed them on the back side of our milk caps, read the book, and set them up as a memory game.


Sorting them out on the table was about as much fun as playing memory with them.


And putting them away was a good fine motor activity.

So there you go - a new toy, made from all second hand materials for your guilt free playing pleasure.

4 comments:

Maggie May said...

you see things with new eyes

Jules said...

you are a clever girl!

Lisa said...

Love it!

Justin said...

that is a great idea!

Bookshelf

Shannon's currently-reading book montage

The Complete Poems
Collected Poems
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011
Anti-Bias Education for young children and ourselves
I Laugh So I Won't cry: kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives
How to Be Compassionate: a Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
Children
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections
The Secret Garden


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Shannon's read-in-2012 book montage

Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
Safari Animals
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's theory (early childhood education series
Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child
Clinical Supervision and Teacher Development


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