8 Activities for Kids with Lids

Here's a quick and easy way to create eco-friendly games for kids with reused lids. If you're like me you love the convenience fruits and veggies in the squeezable food pouches for babies and tots for when you're on the go, but you feel bad about wasting the plastic with the lids. I've found a solution for you!  We collect ours lids and then have free manipulatives to play and learn with at home or on the go.  Perfect Activities for Preschoolers!  

With a lid you can...

• Build a Tower
• Make a Pattern
• Sort by Colors
• String a Necklace
• Play Tic Tac Toe
• Practice Counting
• Create a Design
• Paint Designs 

  

Eco Friendly Tip: Keep the Lids of Jars

You never know what else you can discover and create with your child!

Teaching your child about Recycling
Reuse a large container to keep lids in for your child. It helps to get your child involved with recycling in your home. You'll be surprised how they start to look for reusable lids in everything. When you're all done with the lid, don't forget to RECYCLE it! 

  
Teaching your Child about the Environment

Reusing items is a great way to teach your child about being environmentally friendly. We'll be sharing Earth Friendly tips all month long as we prepare for celebrating Earth Day on April 22.  Check out our Kids in the Garden or our Eco Friendly Pinterest Board Board to get a heads start on Earth Day.  We invite you to visit the Earth Day Celebrations Blog Hop Link below.
   

Please link up your Earth Day ideas to help make our families Eco Friendly Everyday!

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(As with all small items with Children under 3, lids should only used under direct adult supervision.  The rule at our house for older siblings is that items that can fit in a toilet paper tube are choking hazards.)