Kids love to color in books - photo by Therese Branton
Parent Hacks posted a hack today extolling the virtues of telephone books as scribble material, as well as newspapers as tracing/pre-writing practice. Great idea!
Don't discount the value of junk mail, old magazines — really any printed material at all. Kids love the pictures and it's an excellent way to begin teaching toddlers and preschoolers colors, letters, writing, drawing, identifying and more. Plus, you're being "green" by saving paper and finding more uses for your recycling.
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That's a pretty cool idea, but I think I've got a word of caution. Telephone books and newspapers are filled with advertisements. Children already grow up in a consumer world filled with ads, so I'm not sure presenting toddlers with even more ad material is all that great and wonderful. Just a thought…