Make Your Own Fun

Learning Outcomes

• Strategies for turning trash into treasures
• Identify methods and materials that promote development across domains.
• Making all the pieces fit in a natural learning environment.

Trash to Treasure

• Explore ways to use discarded materials
• Give examples
• Share ideas

Brain Storming Activity

• Explore examples of available Items.
• What could you do with this?
• What developmental domains would this activity address?

Summary

• Participants will understand and apply creative methods of making materials and developing activities that promote development.
• Participants will be able to reinforce the benefit of re-purposing common items available in the child's home or other natural environment for learning.