Block Party
Turn ordinary boxes and containers
into blocks which you and your child can use to build houses, your entire
neighborhood, a castle or a puppet stage.
What you'll need:
Clean and safe
cardboard boxes of different sizes and shapes (shoe, cereal, detergent, moving)
Clean and safe
plastic containers of different sizes (margarine, shampoo, detergent)
Wide sturdy tape
Markers
Newspaper
Adult scissors
(adult use only)
Colorful contact
paper (optional)
What to do:
Help your child
fill the clean boxes with crumpled newspaper (to add durability) and tape
securely with wide plastic tape.
Decorate the
blocks with markers, covering with pieces of colorful contact paper or any other
ideas you or your child has.
Seal other
containers with wide plastic tape.
Enjoy building
with your child. Try building a puppet stage for the puppets you made last month
or build a barn for animals. See how high you can build with your blocks and
count how many are in the stack before it falls over.
Make new blocks
as containers become available. They are easy to store in a larger box or
laundry basket.