Give a preschooler an asy-to-use paper punch and strips of paper. Yes, there will be a bit of a mess. You can encourage them to punch over a bowl and try to keep the holes in the bowl. Use the holes for some other craft- a toothpick with a dot of glue will work to pick them up, or let the child sketch a picture, outline it in glue and shake the paper dots over the page.
Great idea! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteFor the most part, I'm ok with play messes. This is the sort of activity I would do early on vacuuming day (the toddler is scared of the vacuum, so I can only use the machine when dh is home). Since I'd be vacuuming anyway, I'd let him put together a "parade" and use the holes for confetti.
Then he could work on picking them up before I vacuum. :)