Ways to use bottle lids

I like to reuse things when I can instead of them ending up in landfill. These are caps from UHT milk that have been collected by friends. Could use as counters but I have used them in literacy learning. Children could use the lids for creating their own sentences, making their names, making their friend's names or copying from a text like in the photo. 

There are so many ways to bottle caps for learning. 

• Use as counters
• Use them to make patterns with other coloured lids or mixed with other items e.g. shells, blocks
• Add them to your collage area
• Create art with them like they did here
• Use it as an adjunct for building with small blocks or popsticks
• Colour sorting lids
• Use as paint stampers

I have also used them in a numeracy activity found here.