the firefighters' restaurant

 

Some see a massive tangle of stuff, I see a hours, days, and weeks of play. 

earrings for the bunny

 This basket of rubber bands is set out for our vertical geoboard. Sometimes the rubber bands become bracelets, handcuffs, or money, and sometimes they become earrings for a bunny. 

cubes on a square

 

the sand man

 

I was asked to guard them...

At the beginning of the school year, the children latch onto the stilts as objects for keeping. They gather them up in pairs or more and create their own games and variations of play with them. At some point in the middle of the year, they progress to balancing and standing on them, and by the end of the year, they are walking on them. I love the time of year when they place such a high level of importance to the stilts that they need guardng.

what can we do with earrings?

A friend of mine gave me a large bag of jewelry. I took it to school and immediately took apart all the beaded bits and put them in a bead bowl. The rings, bracelets, and necklaces that were not beaded went into our classroom jewelry box for the kiddos to play with. But what to do with all the earrings?

One of the kiddos knew just what to do. This basket would be perfect. Look at that fine motor work!

Isn't it pretty? After all the earrings were snuggled onto the basket, he promptly put it in his head as hat! Ta-da!