Turn everyday rubbish into treasure with The Tindims of Rubbish Island! Prize-winning author Sally Gardner and illustrator Lydia Corry have created a fun new world of tiny characters and big adventures.
Their empowering new series for five to eight-year-olds is printed in dyslexia-friendly font with pictures on every page. The Tindims show keen young ecologists how to help protect our planet for the future, so here are four easy craft ideas to inspire inventive ways to recycle.
Tomorrow’s treasure
You can make pencil holders or a plant holder from the bottom of cut-off plastic bottles. Poke holes in the bottom if you’re making a plant holder so water can drain. Or make your own Tindim from a loo roll, a washing-up bottle and spare bits of fabric and paper.
Fishy friend
Take an empty plastic bottle and ask a Long Leg (adult) to help cut it in half. Then on the cardboard, draw a fish tail shape and cut it out. Sticky tape the tail to the bottom of the bottle and now you have a fish. Decorate it however you like to create your own underwater friend.
Bottle top fun
Make a snake by collecting as many bottle tops as you can, then with the help of a Long Leg (adult), thread them onto a string then paint them. Make a variety of bottle top creatures by sticking your bottle tops to card or a lollipop stick. Paint them and give them eyes.
Bottle maracas
Fill a plastic bottle with anything that will make a sound when shaken – maybe dried peas or beans. Take a toilet roll tube and cut halfway up one side. Fit the toilet roll snugly over the top of the bottle and use sticky tape to attach it. You can then decorate your maracas.
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