Box Play

This week we read ‘Miss Mae’s Saturday’ and ‘The Box Boy’ during our weekly Library lesson. Both stories were about children who use their imaginations and boxes to take them around the world.  We then placed different sized boxes outside for the children to use during their play. The boxes soon became a cubby house, a rocket, a piano and a car. The children were engrossed in their play as they negotiated the use of the boxes, having fun with their peers. Playing with a cardboard box can build skills such as creativity, imagination and resourcefulness as the children build with them, transform and reinvent them.