Paper scraps offer creative expression and exploration opportunities in children’s play environments. Children can arrange paper scraps to create colorful mosaics, layered collages, or textured artwork. They can also practice scissor skills by slicing scraps into confetti that ends up in their hair and embedded in the carpet or maybe work on their gluing skills by soaking tiny scraps in the gooey adhesive and waiting impatiently for three weeks for their masterpiece to dry.
If you’re brave enough to allow it, scraps of paper also enhance dramatic and small world play, where they become everything from lettuce to dinosaur poop. True story, back in my family child care days, a young lass wadded up hunks of brown construction paper that served as poop for the keepers of her dinosaur zoo to clean up.
Paper Scraps At Play
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