This past winter, I wrote a post suggesting you save your plastic containers for the children to use this summer. If you have a collection of these plastic necessities, hand them over to your children and watch their imagination soar.
My children helped me compile this list of ideas on how they like to use plastic containers in the summer.
- Grow your own mini garden.
- Make giant ice cubes for the pool.
- Use the bowls to hold paint and water and paint pictures outside.
- Make buildings and other things in the sandbox or at the beach.
- Use the bowls as a swimming pool for a doll/ action figure.
- Use the bowls to make boats in the pool.
- Mudpies. Yep, I had to include it. This was my son’s idea.
- Collect bugs and rocks.
- Make stilts with the sturdier dishes and strings. My husband made a different version of stilts when the children were younger and they loved playing and balancing. This link shows how to make them from coffee cans.
- Use as another way to drench your “enemy” in water fights.
I think my children did a great job! What other ideas do you have for using plastic containers for Frugal Summer Fun?
This post has been linked to: Frugal Fridays at Life as Mom Talk about Tuesday at The Lazy Organizer
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those are great ideas! I keep a small collection in the kitchen for my little boy to play with in the sink – great fun!
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hope to see you around again – looks like you have some fun recipes that I need to take a look at!
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those are awesome ideas. I’ll have to remember them for this summer.
We keep restaurant kiddie cups (the plastic ones) and the lids for easy snack transport in the car. Our daughter can easily hold onto it, plus, no worries if we lose it! She also loves to play “kitchen” and she has empty plastic coffee containers, cream cheese tubs, orange juice bottles, cottage cheese, frozen strawberries, etc. She can “cook” all sorts of things for us and she’s not even 2!