Monday, February 16, 2015

Another Fruit Box Toy

I still have a few more fruit boxes in my storage room and was thrilled to pull one out this week to make a new toy for the younger children in our centre.
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The basket of hair curlers have been out, to play with, for a couple of weeks so it was easy to use those as toys to push through holes in the box.  I first traced the different sizes of curlers and cut out the hole.
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This year I have many more children under 3 years old then I have ever had so I’ve been creating more toys with loose parts for that age.
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Notice the little one with the pink pants?  She isn’t walking yet but is standing on her own and beginning to shuffle sideways around the box.  The box is a great size to allow her to support herself, move and explore..
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      It is also big enough for several children to play at the same time.
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A couple of years ago I made a similar toy for the children to play with at the table.  They really enjoyed it.
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So I shouldn’t have been surprised that even the older children were interested in playing with the box.