Host a Box Play Date! Gather up the boxes around your house and ask your friends to bring over some boxes too. It's easy to host and tons of fun!
Raid the recycle bin and invite learning with one of these 10 simple ways for children to play with boxes. Inspiration from early educators!
With online shipping for nearly everything, boxes are never in short supply. Why not use box play to add interest and fun to the block area?
Printable play dough task cards to help your preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students stay on task in the play dough center.
Breaking down egg boxes into their component parts is a great way of ‘playing’ with shapes and works well with many natural forms, birds, plants, or maybe insects like these . . .
DIY this Cardboard Mailbox for your little Mail Carrier out of an old box and a few other supplies you'll already have at home! Your little one will love delivering their own mail!
With online shipping for nearly everything, boxes are never in short supply. Why not use box play to add interest and fun to the block area?
Printable play dough task cards to help your preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students stay on task in the play dough center.
Here is a round up of 15 different versions of a DIY pretend Play Letter box. My kids loved playing Post Offices. It allowed us to write on post cards, play with stamps and as the got older we sent…
It's after the holidays and I have a pile of cardboard boxes that have taken over my house because I tend to hoard them to make fun forts with the kids. In fact, the most popular
Our school has an Outdoor Learning Committee that I am a part of. We all feel very strongly that the environment where the children play outside is just as important as the environment inside our school. We have worked hard to make our playground an area where the kids can run, exercise explore and yes...learn! Outside play plays an important role in children's development! They are working gross motor muscles and getting must needed exercise. They learn how to solve problems such as when social disagreements arise. They learn empathy as they help friends who get hurt. They learn to take risks and see where their limits are and feel empowered as they take those risks and succeed. They create games and role play. They learn science concepts as they discover things in nature and learn to look closer and ask questions about what they see as they discover new things. They learn kindness as they try to save an insect in danger or nurture a plant. They are literally learning about life and life skills as they play outside, so we knew the environment needed to support that. We had an area that we were having some problems with in the middle of our asphalt area. We wanted to turn it into something all of the kids could explore and benefit from and decided to create a Barefoot Sensory Path. We came up with a design and my husband figured out how to make it so that it would be sturdy and last. Our amazing PTO gave us funds to purchase the materials and we had fun shopping at Lowes for items that would provide the sensory experiences we were hoping for. Our team came in on a Saturday and went to work. Our maintenance team had dug the area down four inches so that it would be even with the asphalt. We put down a layer of paver sand, and then the 4x4's. We glued some materials to 2x2 pieces of plywood. The sections were all 2x2. We filled the sections with paver base and tamped it solid. My son even came and helped! Here is the finished frame. Of course, we had to test it out! Here is the finished path!! We were so excited for the kids to try it! It was a huge success!! The kids absolutely loved walking on it with bare feet, crawling on it and feeling with their hands and even laying in it enjoying the warmth radiating from it from being in the sun. Another new area we created was an area to create roads, ramps, etc. using scrap wood, cars, signs and other loose parts. This lovely lady below had the vision for this area! We also added an area to really work those gross motor muscles. Mr. Doyle created a boundary to keep it all contained to one area. We filled it with stumps, logs, and large branches. The kids have created obstacle courses and love lifting these up to show how strong they are! They jump, balance and create here. They collaborate and problem solve. They use both critical and creative thinking skills. This is a great area to develop 21st Century Learning Skills as they play! For our nature lovers, we have an area with plants for them to explore and observe. Some are edible such as peppermint and fennel. We have cone flowers, milkweed, irises, sunflowers and more. This area is a great place to explore and observe insects also! Here are some other things on our playground where they can let lose and have fun! Our playground is still a work in progress! We have many more ideas that we want to implement some day! One step at a time!
This printable matching socks game is the perfect activity to keep your toddler entertained and learning through play. Download it for FREE!
Create mini activity boxes for toddlers and preschoolers using this container of 5x7 photo storage cases! These activities are great for on-the-go at restaurants, to use for older siblings while nursing a newborn, to use in kids' morning bins, or to use as quiet time activities! These activities wor
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This happens a lot at our house. The kids never seem top get bored with it. We just keep running out of chalk. I had a delve through my phot...
How to Play the Harmonica: After searching around on instructables, I didn't find any complete harmonica tutorials. There are quite a few good ones around the internet, but I thought there should be an instructable. So. The harmonica is one of the easiest instruments to play…
12 INCREDIBLE CARDBOARD COSTUMES FOR KIDS
Activities that develop early math skills are our favourites! We love working on our number recognition, counting skills, subitising and 1:1 correspondence. This “Build a City” activity…
Start your fine motor skills task box collection with this free set of playdough activity cards! This freebie also includes a label and instructions.
The perfect list of jokes for 5 year olds (older kids will love them, too)! Includes animal jokes and knock knock jokes for 5 year olds.
FREE PRINTABLE MATCHBOOK CASTLE PLAY
Learn how to make pretend snow with only 2 simple ingredients. The perfect winter sensory play idea.
Building Functional Pretend Play Centers in an Pre-K Classroom
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20 Simple Cardboard Box activities for kids! Perfect for all of those leftover boxes from the holidays. #3 will be a huge hit with your kids!
We have found 10 ways to repurpose cardboard boxes for imaginative play. You'll be itching to buy some appliances to build your collection.
Use these FREE School Supply Play Dough Mats for Preschool to introduce your students to the supplies they need for a productive school year!
oh! Guys! This is the funnest roundup ever! Grab some painter's tape and whip up some amazing activities, crafts and games with these fun hacks! Canvas Finger PaintingJumping Course Jump! Marbles Painting Craft Car
Have fun pretending to be a zoo keeper with these 21 pages of super cute, FREE zoo printables for dramatic play for preschoolers.
Free printable Shapes Playdough mats for toddlers & preschoolers. A fun play based way for children to learn their shapes.
Simple baby play idea using a tissue discovery box is lots of fun and great way for them to have a sensory experience using this homemade toy.
DIY Song Cubes to help children learn music "old favorites" and practice finding and keeping the beat; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
Study the human body anatomy with kids by making an anatomy model with these free printable life-size human body organs!
