Recycle everything!!! Especially with Earth Day coming up, it’s a perfect time to teach your children about The Three Rs. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. All those TP and paper towel rolls will come in handy. You can recycle so much around the house to act as an art project for your child. These musical instrument projects are great for creativity, following step-by-step directions, and using fine motor skills. Your child will enjoy helping to make them and love playing with them!
Make Maracas!
Fill two plastic eggs with rice or beans, whichever you have on hand. Close eggs. Place two plastic spoons around egg and wrap tape around the spoons, holding egg in place. Easy as that!
Make a kazoooo!
Wrap some wax paper around a toilet paper roll and secure tight with a rubber band. Puncture small hole in TP roll (you can use pen or end of scissors). This one took some playing around with, with how you blow into it. Once we figured out that you really have to yell into it, it was pretty cool.. Teaghan loved it!
Use two paper towel rolls as “rhythm sticks!!” My preschool class used these when working with syllables! Jack Hartmann “months of the year” syllable song is fun to introduce and use them!
Make a Rain Stick!
I’ve done these several different ways with wrapping the ends with wax paper and duct tape.. but I just squeezed the ends and stapled them this go around. We also had some empty chip containers we decided to do the same with! The girls decorated them with foam stickers and added rice to one and beans in the other to hear the difference.
Our next project is to try to make a “guitar” with a shoe box and rubber bands! 📦 🎸
There are so many more ideas out there! These are just a few my girls tried last year and what we’ve made so far during this time at home!
Hi!!! I’m Karrah. A preschool teacher in Norfolk. I have a Master’s in Elem. Education and certified PreK-6. I have two daughters, Teaghan and Rowan. I love to come up with fun, hands-on learning that will hopefully instill a love of learning for young children!
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