Learning & Development Art & craft

Putting recycled materials to good use is satisfying and children are experts at transforming readily available free resources into enchanting creations. These suggestions for discarded cardboard tubes should provide a launch pad for further exciting ideas. Setting the scene Ensure that children have easy access to tubes in creative or construction areas by providing a drum to house longer tubes, smaller baskets for kitchen roll tubes, and table-top boxes for tubes cut to different lengths. Natural creations - Make tree trunks by standing tubes in clay. Cut a slot across the top to push in fan-shaped paper or...