A trip to the office supply store can cost me over 100$ if I don't pay attention just to support his hobby and the daycare kids with craft stuff. Enough is enough I say! This week, I started gathering everything I find around the house that Coco and the daycare kids (aged 3, 2 and 20 months) can use to create their artwork. The craft corner is filling up and the kids aren't complaining that there are no pre-cut foam shapes either! I found old paper plates in the kitchen that were used to make paper masks and turtles, empty toilet paper rolls and egg cartons also tickled their imagination.
We got a huge bag of empty envelopes and cardboard sheets from a family member that works at a store where they sell greeting cards. It seems that the card companies take back the unsold cards but tell the stores to dispose of the cardboard labels and envelopes. I happily filled up the craft corner quite nicely with the brightly colored envelopes and started a scrap paper box so the kids could have paper to draw on.
Its hard to comprehend just how big a child's imagination actually is. An old box, some strings and a few buttons keep most kids busy for hours. As parents we tend to forget that we don't need to buy them every little craft trinket out there; they'll find things around the house that are way cooler to them than anything we could buy in the store.
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