Making Toys from Waste Materials

Making toys from waste materials

EARLY LEARNING RESOURCE INSTRUCTIONS RESOURCES

Make a book • Pre-cut cardboard to size of choice • Colour cardboard • Select pictures from magazines, shopping • Scissors catalogues or pamphlets: • Punch • Select images for themed books: • String Transport Pets Farm animals • Glue Gardens Toys Insects / birds • Magazines, store Colours, shapes, numbers pamphlets Things around the home etc • Laminator or DC Fix – Contact paper • Cut out pictures and paste neatly onto • Binding machine cardboard • Neatly write label under pictures • Laminate or use DC Fix contact paper to protect and re-enforce the pages • Punch holes and thread through string or use a binding machine • Refer to the following websites for South African stories in all languages: • Nalibali.org http://nalibali.org/story-library/multilingual-stories • Bookdash.org https://bookdash.org/see/books/

The Sock Man Story sock man • Put the sock over the mouth of the bottle • A plastic bottle • Pull up a little portion of the sock above the • An old pair of socks bottle's neck and fasten the bow tie around it • Matchsticks, to form the man's head toothpicks or wool • Draw nose, eyebrows, mouth and ears on the • A cardboard sheet cardboard sheet • Felt pens/marker • Cut them out and paste them onto the face • Strip of material to • Alternatively use buttons for the face make a bow tie • Glue matchsticks on the head for the man's hair • Buttons • Alternatively use cut strips of wool for the hair • Glue

• When reading to children, point and identify names of the body parts. • You can make up your own story in your choice of language

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EARLY LEARNING RESOURCE INSTRUCTIONS RESOURCES

Stacking cups Yoghurt cups can be used as stacking cups • Small yoghurt tubs • Wash yoghurt cups to make sure they are clean • Enamel paint – various • Paint cups in different colours and let dry colours

• Use a permanent market to draw shapes, • Permanent marker numbers or dots on the cups, or stick on • Pictures/ stickers stickers

• Use cups to stack – turn upside down, build a

pyramid • Using the number cups find the counter with the matching number or dots

Shape sorters • Take a cardboard box or 2ℓ ice cream container • cardboard box or 2ℓ and paint it and allow to dry ice cream container • Or, cover with wrapping or coloured paper • Enamel paint • Take a stanley knife and cut different shapes in • Coloured or wrapping the lid: paper o circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond – • Shape templates: image 2 make own from o different size and thickness bottle tops and cardboard, bottle lids - image 3 tops, or cookie cutters • Reinforce the corners of cardboard box and • Turpentine

slots for posting. • Paint brush

• • Filament tape • Great activity for: o hand-eye coordination, o fine motor control o matching o visual memory

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EARLY LEARNING RESOURCE INSTRUCTIONS RESOURCES Building blocks • Mix the paint • 5 x egg cartons (6 • Glue all the lids closed eggs) • Paint the egg cartons (blue, red, yellow, green, • 5 x different coloured orange), place on paper and leave to dry paint • Leave 3 cartons whole • Paintbrushes o Cut one of the cartons in half using a stanley • 5 x small containers knife or large scissor • Water o Cut one of the cartons in 3 (thirds) • Scrap paper • Scissors / Stanley knife

• Use cartons blocks to build tower/ objects • Show how the half and thirds of a carton can make up 1 whole carton Skittles • Collect 10 identical plastic bottles (from 370 ml • 5 identical plastic to 1 litre) bottles – water or cold • Fill the bottles with clean, non-recyclable drink bottles less than plastic (dog food bags, torn shopping bags, 1 litre are best clingwrap, sweet wrappers etc), compacting • Non-recyclable plastic the fill so that the bottle is quite firm. to use as fill • Try get each of the skittles (bottles) to weigh • A stick to compress roughly the same (between 200g and 500g) the plastic while filling • Be sure to place the cap on the bottle when the bottle done • Small ball (light tennis ball will do)

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Puzzles • Print 2 copies of picture – 1x A4 and 1x A5: • Print pictures linked to o Use A5 for the example of what needs to be themes, or built • Select pictures from

o Cut the A4 into puzzle pieces magazines

• Paste both pictures onto cardboard • Cardboard (cereal box) • Cover with DC Fix and carefully smooth out all • DC fix – contact paper bubbles • Scissors / stanley knife • Select a puzzle template – 4 / 6 / 12 piece and • Glue put on top of the A4 picture • Paper clips • Place paper clips along 4 sides of page • Ziploc bag

• Cut out carefully along the lines

• Put a colour dot or symbol at the back of each See addendum for puzzle. This makes it easier for children to templates attached identify and pack correct pieces into bag • Place all puzzle pieces and A5 picture into ziplock bag – ready to use

Peg wheels Colour peg wheel • Cut cardboard into a circle or cut the border off • Thick cardboard or a paper plate paper plate Also make a shape peg wheel • Divide circle into 6 or 8 pie slices • Circle template • Paint each section a different colour and let dry • Pencil, scissors • Cover with contact paper (smooth out all • 6 to 8 paint colours bubbles) or laminate • Paint brushes • Paint each peg a different colour to match • Contact paper or colours in circle laminator • Print colour labels and glue to peg or use • 6 to 8 pegs permanent marker and write colours on peg • Permanent marker

Number peg wheel • Cut cardboard into a circle or cut the border off • Thick cardboard a paper plate • Circle template • Divide circle into 10 and draw lines in circle in • Pencil pencil • Ruler • Paste stars/sticky dots/or draw dots 1 to 10 • Rubber onto lines in circle • Scissors • Gently rub out pencil lines • Stars / sticky dots • Cover with contact paper (smooth out all • Contact paper or bubbles) or laminate laminator • Use black marker and number pegs 1 - 10 • 10 pegs

• Black marker

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Threading

Fruit lacing Print and cut out apple template (See Addendum) • Cardboard (cereal • Glue template on thick cardboard box) • Cut out shape and colour in • Fruit template (see

• Optional: cover with DC fix and smooth out all Addendum 1)

bubbles to re-enforce the template • Crayons / Khoki • Carefully punch holes around edges • Scissors / stanley knife • Take shoe lace and thread through top 2 holes • DC Fix – contact and knot at back • Glue / punch • Shoe lace will be in front for threading • String / shoe lace Shoe lacing Print and cut out shoe template (See Addendum) • Cardboard (cereal • Glue template on thick cardboard box) • Cut out shape • Shoe template (see • Optional: cover with DC fix and smooth out all Addendum 2) bubbles to re-enforce the template • Crayons / Khoki • Carefully punch holes around edges • Scissors / Stanley • Take shoe lace and thread through top 2 holes knife and knot at back • DC Fix – contact • Shoe lace will be in front for threading • Glue / punch • • String / shoe lace

Sensory playdough This is a stunning play dough recipe that can be • 1 cup corn flour used for children with sensitive skin and is a great (Maizena) multi-sensory activity for babies and toddlers. • 5 tablespoons scented hair conditioner or Use fragrant hair conditioner – coconut scented. aqueous cream But, for children with sensitive skin rather use • Food colouring aqueous cream. Optional: Method: • Drop of flavoured • Put cornflour/maizena into a mixing bowl essence (lemon, • Add 1 tablespoon of conditioner or aqueous banana, vanilla etc) cream • Coconut essence • Mix until it looks fluffy and crumbly then use flakes your hands to work it together until evenly • Grated peel from combined lemon, lime or orange This is not like ordinary play dough as • It may seem dry but keep kneading until it it does not have any preservative becomes soft, silky and pliable in your hands ingredients like salt, oil, etc. so it does (the heat of your hands helps this process) not last as long. • If it is still dry – dip your fingers into conditioner/aqueous cream and knead again – If it becomes crumbly then roll into a only a small amount ball and keep squeezing and kneading • Split the dough into half or quarter and then to warm it up and make it more add few drops of food colouring and a drop of pliable – add a few drops of aqueous flavoured essence: for example – if you using cream or conditioner. yellow food colouring, add lemon essence • If you have used coconut conditioner, then don’t add any additional flavoured essence

Optional: • For extra multi-sensory texture add a few flakes of coconut essence, or grate a lemon/lime/orange peel into dough • This makes a wonderful multi-sensory and tactile experience for the child

Storage: • Wrap in wax wrap and put into ziplock bag • When using – roll and knead again and if needed add a drop of conditioner or aqueous cream

Bottle doll • Clean plastic cold drink bottle • 2l coke bottle • Add little white or brown enamel paint • Enamel paint: white into bottle, put on lid and shake bottle so or brown, and red, paint covers inside. pink, black • Pour out excess paint and glue on lid • Colour permanent • Decorate face markers • Add scarf or hat and wrap in blanket • Glue • Hat, scarf, blanket

Stilts

Resources: • Coffee tins – cleaned and smooth the edges with sandpaper • Nylon string – length depends on height of child • Lighter to burn end • Wash your tins and remove the labels of rope • Be extra careful with the edge where the lid was • Screwdriver / nail removed – use sandpaper to sand off rough edges and hammer • Turn your tins upside down (closed end is facing up) • Drill / clamp • Use ruler and mark 2cm from top of can • Sandpaper / metal • Using a screwdriver or nail, hammer to make hole file • Hammer 2 holes on either side of tin • Marker and ruler • Use metal file or sand paper to smooth off rough • Paint to decorate edges tins – suitable for • If you can’t get it as smooth as you would like, try metal covering that inside edge with duct tape for extra protection • To decide the length of rope you will need, ask your tallest child to stand on a can with his arms at his sides • The rope should be long enough to go from the hole, to his hand (and across the palm), and then back into the other hole • Add extra length for two knots • Cut two lengths of rope (one for each can) • Use a lighter to burn the ends of the rope so that they don’t fray • Thread one end of the rope into the can from the outside • Tie a knot inside the can • Thread the other end of the rope through the hole in the opposite side of the can and tie another knot - granny knot • Use paint for metal and paint tins • Tins are ready for use

Addendums

PUZZLE TEMPLATES