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Plastic Lid Activities

May 6, 2014 by OneMommy

 

 

Plastic lids.   Every milk carton, juice bottle, and food canister has them.  You could just toss them, but why not have some fun with them first?

This month Project Recycle and Create is focusing on plastic lid activities, including plastic lid crafts!

plastic lid activities: ideas from some of the best mom bloggers

 

 

We have used our plastic lids to make lower-case letter manipulatives, like those we used in our Vehicle Letter Transport activity.   They’ve also been tossed into water to see if they float or sink and have even given a Lego person a ride or two.

This time around I thought we’d try crafting with them.

I thought they made a lovely flower center for this simple upcycled card — perfect for a teacher at the end of the school year or maybe even Mom on Mother’s Day!

plastic lid craft

 

 

To make the card, I cut strips from a couple colorful magazine pages.  Then I made a loop with each strip, gluing them into place in a circle.  (I chose to make a second layer with the magazine strips, but one layer with five “petals” was also cute!)

Then I glued my plastic bottle cap to the center and added the other details with markers.

 

I showed the card to the preschooler, thinking it would inspire him to glue the plastic lids to a drawing.  (I figured they’d become car wheels…)

 

Of course kids always have their own ideas!

The preschooler didn’t want to glue his plastic lids at all.  Instead he decided to use them to trace circles.

 

plastic lid crafts

 

 

He was quite content to trace a multitude of circles of various sizes.

 

Looking for other ideas for those plastic lids and bottle caps?

Enjoy other great ideas on how to use plastic lids and bottle caps from these Project Recycle and Create co-hosts:

P is for Preschooler     Powerful Mothering    Little Bins for Little Hands
Lemon Lime Adventures     Creative World of Varya     Mama Miss
There’s Just One Mommy      Afterschool for Smarty Pants      Peakle Pie
Sugar Aunts   Teach Me Mommy    Danya Banya    Still Playing School
Widsom Knowledge Joy     Playtivities       Preschoolers Day by Day

Filed Under: Kids Crafts Tagged With: preschooler craft, upcycled craft

Comments

  1. Emma @ P is for Preschooler says

    May 7, 2014 at 6:38 am

    Don’t you just love when you plan something and they have their own ideas? As frustrating as it can be, at least it means they’re creative! My daughter loved tracing the bottle caps too! 🙂

    • OneMommy says

      May 11, 2014 at 10:29 pm

      LOL – Yes! Sometimes it is frustrating when you think you have a great idea ready…but I love to see those gears turning in their heads!

      We still have a pile of bottle caps sitting on the table, hoping to inspire one of them to get creative this week. 🙂

  2. Julie @ Don't Lick Your Sister says

    May 7, 2014 at 10:56 pm

    These are great ideas! We have been making lots of flower crafts for spring but I think we need to make at least one more because the above is so cute! You inspired me to start saving the caps and write lower and upper case letters on each for a preschool activity too.

  3. creativejewishmom/sara says

    May 13, 2014 at 2:28 am

    Love the flower, thanks for sharing on craft schooling Sunday!

  4. Carrie says

    May 16, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    I love the card!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!

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