Hellobee Boards

Yes!! Sometimes LO will paint a few lines and will be done with the paper. I try to at least reuse the other side. I can just hear my mom yapping in my ear about how scarce paper was in her day.

that makes me insane, not because of the cost, but because of the waste of resources involved. my nanny LO's have been known to scold others for wasting paper because 'they have to cut down trees to make paper and trees clean the air for us & give animals a place to live', they make me very proud sounds like scrap paper or old drawings could make great paper toys for their dolls. we keep a box of scraps and old papers to reuse for projects.

My mum used to only give us a finite amount of paper for drawing and did not tell us where the rest was. That way we had to make do with the paper we had so we were much more careful with how we used it. She would also tell us to continue drawing on the same sheet if we only drew a couple of lines on it, or at least to flip it over and draw on the other side.