An Indoor Play Activity
This activity requires a bit of storage space. But for the fun your child will have constructing life-sized structures from play blocks.
Materials Required:
- Miscellaneous cartons
- Decorating supplies and materials
Instructions:
This activity requires a bit of storage space. But for the fun your child will have constructing life-sized structures from play blocks.
You may find yourself considering getting rid of your furniture – or moving to a larger house.
Start collecting cartons from your shopping forays, and from goods that you order – through the mail or receive as gifts.
The recommended size is at least one cubic foot. (Of course, you can go out and buy shipping boxes at your stationery or office supply store.
That will give you nice uniform blocks, but it won’t help you recycle the endless stream of cardboard boxes that pass through most households.)
Tape the boxes shut, then turn your child loose with markers, crayons, scrap wrapping paper, or anything else that can transform the boxes into kid-style building blocks.
When the decoration is done, encourage your child to build walls, towers, houses (you can use a large piece of posterboard for a roof), tunnels, and other structures big enough to climb in (but not on).
Hint: leave some of the boxes open on one side. That way you can use them to store smaller boxes and toys, so you might not have to sell off the sofa after all.
This Childrens Activity is sponsored by Zane Education – the home of online Visual Learning.
