As Earth Day approaches, we’re thinking about ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle with our kids. But we’re often stumped on fun ways to encourage them to reuse. Manhattan-based Eeboo Corporation provides a whimsical way to demonstrate this important concept with its new line of “Waste-Not Animals.” We recommend starting out with the hedgehog kit, which has everything kids need to create the cute critter — minus the 6-ounce plastic yogurt cup that you supply for reuse and some other common household items (scissors, newspaper, etc.). Recommended for ages 8 and up (but it’s a “great inter-generational activity”), the kit has explicit directions and detailed illustrations that provide frustration-less crafting. For the more experienced, there’s chameleon and fox kits.
Hedgehog Waste-Not Animal Kit by Eeboo, $13.95, www.amazon.com.
