December 24, 2010

Before You Throw Away Those Packaging Materials...

Before you throw away the enormous amount of packaging that comes with Christmas gifts and packages, try a few of these activities.
Try bubble wrap painting. Dip pieces of bubble wrap into the paint and stamp them onto the page. Try different colors of paint and different shaped pieces.


Use part of a package to make an ISpy Window


Flatten a box and make a Poster Board Car Mat

Design a Styrofoam Zoo


**Save a piece of bubble wrap (with the large bubbles) for a bubble wrap popping game that I'll be posting about soon.

7 comments:

  1. We like to paint with the paper that comes with the packages. We made our gingerbread children that way and painted with our feet and wrote my daughter's name in large letters.
    http://livelearnlove226.blogspot.com/2009/12/painting.html and http://livelearnlove226.blogspot.com/2010/12/gingerbread-children.html if you are interested.

    You are so right...save that packaging material!

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  2. That's a great idea~!~! Recyle Recyle Recyle..
    My son is having a time keeping his 3 children busy.. I passed this idea onto him and he likes it~!
    ta ta for now from Iowa

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  3. I like the styrofoam zoo! I'm pretty sure it wouldn't last long around here, but if would be fun for a couple days- we have a ton of little animal figurines!

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  4. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
    Nataša

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  5. Great ideas for using up all those packaging materials! This was one of my favorite posts for last week and I've linked up to it here: http://play2grow.blogspot.com/2010/12/weekly-favorites-for-december-26-2010.html

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  6. Fantastic! We even save and re-use the ribbons for other occassions. Every opportunity to save our planet.....:-)

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  7. I love the styrofoam zoo and the robot!

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