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Used coffee grounds are great for messy play! To play with they are a bit like a cross between sand and mud, in that they are grainy and can be crumbled up, scooped and poured, and can be moulded too. They also smell great (if you like coffee)! Most cafe's will give you their used coffee grounds for free - some even bag them up ready for customers to take because they can be used for gardening. They have to be fairly fresh as they start to mould within a few days. The brown colour lends itself well to setting up a zoo animal scene but I have also made coffee grounds into a farm. The photos here are from when I did Happymess at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta last year - the theme was recycling so coffee grounds were perfect! I just added some plastic animals, scraps of astroturf, some cardboard box enclosures and a few messy play tools (spades, pots, rakes etc) along with the coffee grounds to the tuff tray and lots of fun was had by the children who visited!
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