This is a fabulous idea for creative imaginative play from Eileen A.:
We’re training our whole lives to be effective and efficient adults, and for most of us that means junk mail goes straight in the trash [or recycling bin!]. But if we pretend for a minute that we have 3 yr old minds sometimes we can find nuggets in that mail. I opened a credit card solicitation that had a plastic fake card in it and my kids played and played with that, putting it in an envelope then a purse, drawing around it, handing it back and forth to each other, pretend shopping, pretend paying the bill, etc. They made a little desk with a few office supplies and ”wrote letters” and “composed stories”. Some junk mail has pictures on it (I’m thinking of the zoo membership solicitation) and sometimes it’s just a letter with lots of words to “read”/pick out.
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