Anyone looking for a rainy day activity? It's been stormy for nearly a week, so we've spent many hours indoors. One of my kids' favorite activities so far was building a city from recyclables.
Cardboard tubes, yogurt containers, parmesan shaker, coffee tin, egg carton... we just grabbed everything from our recycling bin and started creating buildings.
We covered the containers in construction paper. The children were the architects, stacking bottles and boxes and then I taped them all together.
"What kinds of buildings does a city need?" I asked my daughter. She decided we needed a library, a school and a grocery store.
She drew lines on the streets and designed where the street would go, taping it to the table. She reserved much of the road for a parking lot in front of the library.
A rubber duck from the bath tub gets relocated to our Duck Lake.
As soon as we added play cars to the cityscape, little brother became very interested.
Our egg carton converts into a car ramp.
A toilet paper tube and some green construction paper make a simple tree.
It took us longer to build it than actually play with it, but it was a fun morning nonetheless!
Love this idea! I think the only problem I'd have is that Mateo would never want to clean up! He wants to keep everything.
ReplyDeleteHa ha! We stuck them all in a basket when we were done and played again. Definitely not a one time deal. :)
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