Make-It Topic: Boxes

Imaginative:

• Set up some boxes with costumes and materials allow the children to explore the boxes
• Set out small boxes to make cars
• Use a large long box to make an airplane

Language:

• Read “Not a box” by Antoinette Portis
• Make a box story use a box and add materials to compliment a story encourage the children help make one

Art:

• Place out ring boxes with paint allow the children to paint with them
• Make paper origami boxes using news paper
• Paint boxes for gifts for Christmas presents the children make

Water/Sand:

• Place different size boxes with different size holes in them, place them  in the sand for sifting
• Use plastic boxes for the water table add different material to place in them

Gross Motor:

• Set up an obstacle course using large and small boxes
• Place tissue boxes on the children’s feet have them walk around
• Go for a walk allowing the children to use boxes as cars

Science/Curiosity:

• Place different materials into a box with a small hole for their hand allow the children to explore the object in the box and guess what the objects are
• Have the children measure boxes and compare the height to themselves

Blocks:

• Place different shaped boxes and people for the children to explore
• Use small boxes for holding blocks and building
• Place out the regular blocks

Conceptual/Tabletop/Fine Motor:

• Place boxes and wrapping paper on the table allow the children to wrap the boxes
• Have a bunch of ring boxes with numbers on them and have the children match the number to the number of rings to go in them
• Have boxes for stacking
• Have different sizes boxes for nesting

Music:

• Sing “A square is like a box”

- A square is like a box, a square is like a box, it has four sides, they are the same a square is like a box

• Add different shaped boxes to make shakers

Quiet:

• Place a story box into the area

- To make place a story with different related materials inside the box

Cooking:

• Make gram cracker boxes using the crackers and peanut butter or cream cheese fill the boxes with fruit allow the children to enjoy the snack

Field Trip:

• Go to the store have the children find what different materials are in boxes ie cereal toys 
• Make a trip to the factory to see how a box is made