At the beginning of the year, send a note home to families that you are collecting items for the class. They can help too. We used to have junk boxes for counting and sorting items. More on that soon.
This is what you need:
*Cups - the plastic laundry cups from liquid detergent. (Yes, that is my 30+ year old washer.)
Use for individual crayon cups.
They fit nicely in skinny supply baskets.
Pour bubble solution in. (see bubble day post)
Use as a dice/cube cup for holding and rolling. Children's hands aren't large enough yet to hold dice or cubes easily.
*Scoops - from laundry powder oxyclean, etc
Use these in the sand or rice tables for measuring.
*Frosting cans with lids
Yes, they hold paper clips, cubes for games,...
Wonderful for holding paint. Perfect as a pencil and scissors cups for tables. Wrap with contact paper for decoration and label.
*Buttons - so many uses (look for button day activities)
*Plastic bottle lids -
Use for sorting, patterning, counting sets, game markers. (see Bottle Caps post for more ideas)
* 'Rings' from milk bottles (I told you I save lots of things.)
Use for sorting, patterning, counting, but most of all for ringing pictures on cards for beginning sounds, rhyming, calendar or chart paper circling (use blue funtak to stick)
That's not all, oh no, that's not all.....but that's enough to start.
Come back again for more and why you need these in your class!
Love
Janet
