Recommend Age: 18 months and up
Yes, it’s a developmentally supportive activity 🙂
Supplies
- Newspaper (or any easy to tear papers that you wish to recycle)
Instructions
- Tell your child that this is special paper that we can have fun tearing up before we recycle it.
- Demonstrate tearing off small pieces of newspaper. Comment on the sizes “Wow, you’re tearing off a BIG piece of paper.”
- Throw the pieces in the air! Crumple pieces into balls! Have fun!
- Set aside a clean bin that your child can use to help clean up all the papers at the end. You may also show them how to dump the bin into your paper recycling bin. Hint: They may wish to even watch the recycling truck pick up the paper in garbage day!
Skills
- Fine motor
- Social when completed with friends or caregiver
- Language: big, small, lots, little, tear
Tip:
- This is a great activity for redirecting a child who is tearing pages in their books. Gently redirect them to “special tearing paper”.
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