Here's another idea. Get a piece of burlap and some supplies like embrodery thread, plastic needle, buttons, feathers, shells, whatever. Start gluing and weaving in pieces an see if your child wants to do some. This is the type of creative project that we like, it's very open ended.
Putting together a set of recyclable for construction is great. As you get cool packaging, talk about what's interesting to you. Do you like the color? What could we make from this? Soon your child will come up to you and say let's save this for the construction box. This very open ended too.
