Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Plastic containers

Do you recycle? We are very environmentally conscious. We do as much as we can to conserve, recycle, reuse and reduce. When you come to our house you can expect to use a jar as your drinking glass, a child's wash cloth as your napkin, and you will see plenty of empty plastic containers all over our house. Some are used for play while others store all kinds of things.
Great for holding paint brushes.
In the toy area, we have plenty for building, collecting things, as baskets and goals.
We had a few that were splitting so I cut them in half and we used them as golf holes or hockey goals.
.....digging in the block box
....starter plant pots
We also use them in the bathtub. Somedays these are the only toys in the bathtub. The boys love filling and dumping them, floating them, filling them with cars and other toys. I use them to rinse the kids off. The best thing about these toys is that they come with food and can be recycled when you have finally worn them out.

2 comments:

  1. looks like our house! my favorite "containers" are the ones from frozen blueberrys...they are a great size, sturdy, and have a really secure lid. I love the golfing idea!

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  2. Yep! Our kids are very creative with cardboard and plastic too. Boats, games, shields, bridges, houses, etc. etc. We were limited to what we could fit in our suit cases, so when we first came here, the kids had no store-bought toys but they improvised very quickly. I love it.

    I'm going to have to put a blog about garbage and recycling one of these days too. I love the planter ideas.

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