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Recycle and Play: Awesome DIY Zero-Waste Projects to Make for Kids
Recycle and Play: Awesome DIY Zero-Waste Projects to Make for Kids
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Transform trash into treasure with Recycle and Play - a book of 50 enriching activities for young kids to have fun, create, learn, and help the planet. Using everyday items like cardboard, bubble wrap, lids, and egg cartons, children will engage in hours of exciting play at home while also learning about sustainable living.
Each project is process-oriented and encourages children to be creative, explore their senses, develop skills, and discover how things work. With tips on how to extend play and learning for each project, parents can engage their children to come up with fun additions and extensions of their own.
Organized by material, the zero-waste projects include a Car Garage and Ramp made from toilet paper tubes and cardboard, Mess-Free Bubble Wrap Painting, Busy Board Lid Activity, Alligator Letter Feed made from egg cartons, Milk Carton School Bus with family photos, and a Matching Memory Game made from wipe lids.
While each project includes clear step-by-step instructions and materials lists, parents are encouraged to adjust the activities to their child's interests and the materials they have on hand. Bond with your child, help them learn through play, and instill a lifelong respect for the environment with Recycle and Play.





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With fast local shipping across our entire range of STEM Toys within Australia, you can generally expect standard delivery within 3-7 business days and Express Delivery in 1-3 days.
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100% compostable & eco-friendly packing materials
We lovingly pack all orders using 100% compostable and recyclable materials. Open up your items, and throw the rubbish in the compost, not the bin.
We understand that toys usually involve plastic. One of our biggest priorities at Smartsie is to ensure we don't contribute to the plastic problem any more than we need to, which means we exclusively use eco-friendly materials and encourage our familiies to reduce and reuse as much as possible.
Our products are excellent tools for learning about the environment as long as we all do our part to offset the impact of plastic waste while doing so!