Location: indoor

Materials: old magazines or other paper you're getting ready to recycle

Invite your toddlers to participate in an active sensory exploration. When you have a large stack of old magazines, newspapers, and other paper you're getting ready to dispose of, set it out and invite your children to rip it up. This is a great sensory activity-- the sound of the paper tearing, how much strength it takes to tear different types of papers and quantity of pages.

Possible Extensions:

• Use the torn paper in a future art project, liking making collages
• Keep the torn paper in a basket for future sensory play
• Challenge children to tear the paper into smaller and smaller pieces