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Creative Recycling


TISSUE BOX CRAFTS

Here's a simple tissue box craft that budding musicians will love. Kids can make their guitar as fancy or as simple as they like.

Tissue Box Guitar

Help your preschooler learn to tell time with Tickety Tock from Blue's Clues. All you need is a recycled tissue box and the printable clock face provided.

Make Tickey Tock

Making this simple craft with your child will give you an opportunity to talk together about two good habits: recycling and good money-saving habits!

Blue's Clue's Piggy Bank


SHOE BOX PUPPET THEATERS

Put on a puppet show with Yo Gabba Gabba! All you need is a shoe box and the backdrops and puppets provided here.

Yo Gabba Gabba! Puppet Theater

Hark! Who goes there? Create a castle puppet theater based on the Backyardigans "Tale of the Mighty Knights" TV special.

Backyardigans Castle Puppet Theater


MORE CARDBOARD CREATIONS

Take a closer look. Transform a paper towel tube into a spotting scope. It's just like the one Diego uses!

Diego Spotting Scope

Once you've finished your next container of oatmeal, make this do-together craft inspired by Diego's African Safari Rescue special and let your preschooler bang out the beats.

Diego Safari Rescue Drum

Hear what Diego hears: the sound of rain falling in the rain forest. Dry lentils or popcorn kernels, a coil of aluminum foil, and a cardboard tube are all it takes to create this exotic sound.

Diego Rain Stick Music Maker