all kinds of things with all kinds of different materials. We love building!
We used real tools for drilling, hammering, sanding and screwing pieces of wood. This is nothing new, as we have a workbench set up in our play room all of the time. Our favorite "tool" seems to be tape measures.
We also loved the construction hats to keep our heads safe when building.
After reading Building a House
and Jack's House,
we sang the song, "When I Build My House" and talked about the things we would need to build a house.
We had different lengths of wood and some bricks to challenge our building skills...
As you can see, we take pride in our accomplishments!
Dreaming Up- a celebration of building
and When I Build With Blocks,
helped us to realize that we could build anything and that many of our structures and materials are similar to real architectural masterpieces built around the world.
It seems we can build anywhere with just about any materials. Does play dough count for building? We think so!
We loved building with boxes! We could go inside of our structures...
Using toothpicks, with marshmallows as connectors, we created structures in such a way as the Montreal Biosphere in Quebec, Canada was created.
After reading Iggy Peck, Architect,
we tried our hand at planning buildings just as an architect might, just like Iggy Peck, with graph paper, pencils and rulers in hand.
Who knows? We might have some future architects in our midst!
Bridges are to Cross
and Cross a Bridge,
showed us some amazing bridges that have been built all over the world.
We crossed over a bridge we made with a board and two stools. We sang "London Bridge is Falling Down" as we crossed over...
Human beings are not the only ones who build. Animals do as well. We read, And So They Build
and talked about what and why animals build.
After reading The Very Busy Spider,
we made our own spider web of yarn throughout our play yard and crawled under and over the giant web.
We read Get Busy Beaver
and tried our hand at beaver dams.
The Best Nest
had us building bird nests using our bird beaks (tweezers), just like real birds!
had us building bird nests using our bird beaks (tweezers), just like real birds!
We read it and talked about which little pig made the best choice and then we used stuffed animals to create a puppet show...
Building with different materials helps us to build strength in our fingers and hands. Figuring out what fits where helps us with perspective along with balance and stability. A lot of cooperation and problem solving went on as well. We created structures of our own design and used them for pretend play. Telling what we made encouraged language.
And you thought we were just building...
