Cardboard Tubes: Chickpea Run
Here’s one of our dear Playbus friends trying out the cardboard tube run! Some dried pasta and chickpeas, cardboard tubes/toilet rolls, and maybe a spoon can turn into a really fun activity for your toddler!
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Cardboard Tubes: Matching Game
Save your bottle tops and cardboard tubes! Soon enough you’ll be able to try out this great homemade matching game. Follow’s Simona’s instructions and have fun!
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Cardboard Tubes: Pouring and Posting
Have you ever noticed your child being really interested in a particular pattern of play, like pouring or scattering? These patterns of play, called “schemas”, are often your child’s way of making sense of the world as they discover it, and are a natural part of early childhood development. This video focuses on pouring and trajectory!
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Cardboard Tubes: Racing Games!
Here’s another way to make use of your cardboard tubes! Make yourselves an obstacle course and run some races! You could either run, crawl, or go side to side – maybe see who can move the apple first!
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Cardboard Tubes: Rolly Polly Baby Toy
If your little bean is enjoying tummy time, why not craft this a little “shaker”, by adding some old lentils and pasta in a toilet toll and securing it with cellotape? It makes noise, it’s colourful and it rolls, which makes it very attractive!
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Cardboard Tubes: Space Rocket!
Make your own astronaut bracelet and and amazing rocket ship that will fly you to the moon! All of this using cardboard tubes and toilet rolls!
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Cardboard Tubes: Threading
How about making your own very large and easy to handle beads, which you can decorate with scrap paper, from cardboard tubes and toilet roll! Simona is also using a string/shoelace to make herself a lovely necklace. This is great fine motor skills practice, so give it a go!
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Zoom Zoom Zoom!
A cardboard tube makes a great… ROCKET SHIP! 🚀 Ian made his own and is ready to zoom to the moon!
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