Thank you to Barbara Smith of the Recycling OT for this week’s activity!
Spring is a great time of year for egg-themed crafts regardless of your religion or location on this planet. Children love eggs and birth…….
Some of the common crafts include lacing, painting and forming eggs with clay. Here are a few plastic activities made out of  detergent bottles that I bet you never heard of before !!
White plastic is available from the milk and orange juice bottles as well as cat litter and detergent or dishwasher soap bottles.

I have been using the Velcro bottle for over 20 years. I love it to promote bilateral hand use,strengthening fingers and developing the eye hand coordination to insert the objects inside. I have found that older children with developmental delays particularly attend to and enjoy removing objects attached with Velcro.

Cut notches in the white egg shape for children to weave colorful strips through. Adding extra shapes, like the pink ones shown here add complexity and creative options.
Cut notches in the white egg shape for children to weave colorful strips through. Adding extra shapes, like the pink ones shown here add complexity and creative options.
I always start out asking younger children to remove strips or shapes since its usually easier to motor plan opening and removing than attaching and closing.
You can see that the almost 3 year old in the video is very interested in removing the shapes from the long circular white strip cut out of a large yogurt container. At this stage  she needs a little bit of help taking the egg shapes off the  band.
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