Wasteful play?!

[SilentBite]

DD has so far this morning used

3 carrots (chopped into unusable bits for an animals' picnic)
Half a roll of loo roll and ditto of masking tape for bandages for sick animals
Loads of wrapping paper to wrap random things for animals birthdays

(can you see a them here lol!)

Do yours do this? I don't mind as such but I do feel it is wasteful

OTOH she is quite and playing so

Oh I think it's lovely and imaginative.

You could straighten out the wrapping paper to reuse - or is it past salvaging? (I even reuse wrapping paper with (not too many, obv) sellotape marks on )

oh yes I love it

but I do worry about the waste

well, as long as it's not every single day, and you teach her about waste and beiong careful etc. otherwise (which I'm sure you do), I honestly don't see why she shouldn't - it's creating happiness and domestic peace, not wasting resources

give the carrot to someone with a rabbit or gerbil etx

and stick the unsalvageable paper in the recycling and don;t worry about the rest

lovely imaginative play.....worth a bit of wasted paper and stuff!

actually the dog can havce the carrots

If I let her she would raid the whole larder for parties and picnics on an hourly basis!

I know what you mean!

Get a junk box.

No play is wasteful tbh. Think of how she is developing her 6 areas of learning

When I was growing up we never had the stuff to do the Blue Peter makes, because card was too expensive 'to waste', sticky-backed plastic was not cheap, and the idea of double-sided-sellotape was just an impossible luxury!

I'm not bitter and twisted about it, but I do feel it stifled my creativity. My boys have pretty much unlimited access to all sorts of craft materials, and are allowed to do 'wasteful' projects when they choose to. Once you build up your stocks it really doesn't cost much to maintain them
... you do need to have a room though that you can guarantee will look permanently like a junkyard