You can never have too many raw materials around for children to use as entertainment. The following are ideas of every day items you can recycle for craft supplies:
Always consider safety issues, such as the child’s age, before giving them any items to play with and supervise children carefully! A good rule of thumb for items that could be a choking hazard is if they can pass through a toilet paper roll, they are too small.
Baking cups
Broken costume jewelry
Buttons/bottle caps
Cotton scraps/ribbon
Cotton balls
Drinking straws
Egg cartons
Popsicle sticks
Plastic containers and lids
Embroidery thread
Empty film cans/spools
Empty cardboard boxes
Empty plastic soda bottles
Nylons
Newspaper/magazines/catalogue/comics
Odd game pieces
Odd socks/mittens/gloves
Old greeting cards/tissue & wrapping paper/brown paper bags
Scraps of yarn/string
Toilet paper & paper towels rolls
