♻️ Recycling Sort
A real sorting job with a real trip to the bin at the end.
🔍 Discover·15 min·Free·Ages 3–5·👶 Easy·🧑 Light
⚠️ Safety first
Stay in the room. Rinsed, dry packaging only — no glass, tins or sharp lids.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Sorting
- ✓Caring for the planet
🌱 Montessori-inspired · Culture & Nature
What you need
Clean recycling · 2 boxes
How to do it
- 1.Wash a few bits of recycling.
- 2.Sort into paper and plastic piles.
- 3.Carry them out to the bin together.
How it actually goes
- ⏱ 30-second set-up —
- Thirty seconds: put clean recycling, 2 boxes on a tray or a clear bit of floor, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do —
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do —
- Collect, look closely, and ask the questions.
- ✅ What success looks like —
- At 3–4 they'll repeat it, narrate it, and want to change the rules. Let them change the rules.
- 🧺 How to put it away —
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it —
- Older? Look one of the finds up in a book together afterwards.