Don't Toss It

Cover a tall cardboard box with sheets of newspaper dipped in wallpaper paste. After it dries form a clown face with a big mouth. Cut out the mouth and reinforce the edges with more strips of newspaper soaked in paste. Add features and accents on the face. Use it as the target for a toss game. You can use toss-abouts or just crumple balls of newspaper and tape them into ball shape. Children may prefer another target other than a clown. Ask them for suggestions (if you are game). You might end up with a frog, hippo, hungry monster as a target.

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Newspaper Keepsakes

Staple together newspapers just as they come – on the fold – to be used as inexpensive individual scrapbooks or for group collections. Covers may be added from textured paper or wallpaper. Children can create the covers making a collage of illustrations they collect to depict the theme of their collection – people at work, seasons, animals etc. These scrapbooks can be used as category books, creative literature (children write their stories on large, lined paper and glue them onto the newspaper book pages) or personal art portfolios (illustrations are drawn in and glued to pages).

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