The following is a post by Allie Pasquier, an innovative Early Childhood Educator, to her blog
Bakers and Astronauts titled Creating Art, Conserving Materials.

"How do we encourage children to create with care? How do we teach children about the value of art materials while getting them to continulously create, make, and try? This is something I have been struggling with since beginning to teach.

Everything can be used to make something new, I think, and with that theory in mind I am always accepting balls of yarn, toilet paper tubes, ceramic flower pots, basically anything. We can use things like this from time, and the random donated/found item can become something great in the eyes of a child."

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