A Craft for your Child

Save toilet rolls. Make a telephone with them. Have your child color two toilet rolls with crayons. Tie old shoe laces together or use a long string. Poke a hole in each end of the toilet roll with a paper puncher. Pull string through and tie. (Keep away from babies due to accidentally strangling. You can also staple string to toilet rolls, but staples can fall off and get lost in your carpet. And if someone steps on a staple in bare feet it can hurt. Plus, if you have a baby around you don't want the baby to find it and eat it.) If you have an empty tissue box you can make that into a phone box. Cover tissue box with the inside of a paper bag like a present. Then have your child draw push numbers for calling on it. Poke hole into it and tie string with toilet roll to it as a receiver. Alternative: Instead of toilet rolls you can use paper/Styrofoam cups.