Stackable Caps for Toddlers

What you need:

• three or four plastic spray-can caps of different sizes
• nontoxic permanent marker

How to make it:

1. Ask your parents to help you collect about three or four plastic spray-can caps from items around the home, such as spray starch, shaving cream, cooking spray, and so on. Collect caps of varying sizes that will nest inside each other.

2. Wash and dry each cap.                     
   

3. Stack the caps from the largest on the bottom to the smallest on the top, with the open end of each cap facing down. Use a nontoxic permanent   marker to number them from top to bottom.
4. Teach a young child numbers and colors by playing stacking games together.

Milk-Carton Game

What you need:

• nine clean milk or juice cartons
• scissors
• pencil
• metal fasteners
• marker
• gift wrap
• small ball or beanbag

How to make it:

1. Wash and dry nine milk or juice cartons, all the same size. Cut off the top part of each one.
2. Arrange the cartons in a square. Poke holes and use metal fasteners to attach the sides of the cartons together.
3. With a marker, write a point value on the inside edge of each carton. Decorate the cartons with gift wrap.
4. Set the cartons on the floor. Stand a few feet away. Take three turns tossing a small ball or beanbag into the cartons. Add up the points. Play by yourself or compete with friends.

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Monster-Bucket Game

What you need:

• large container
• green paper
• scissors
• glue
• paper of various colors
• old sock
• dried beans

How to make it:

1. Clean a large container and cover it with green paper.
2. To make hair, cut a strip of paper long enough to fit around the container. Snip it along one long side to create fringe. Glue the uncut side to the container.
3. Create other features from paper of various colors. Glue them on.
4. To make each beanbag, fill part of an old sock with dried beans. Knot the sock tightly above the beans. Trim the sock above the knot.
5. Set the monster bucket on the floor against a wall, and toss the beanbags into it. As you improve, step farther away from the bucket.

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