FEBRUARY 2004

BROWN BAGGIN' IT!


NEST

Materials: lunch sack

Directions:

1. Open the sack.

2. Slowly roll out and down.

3. As you squish towards the bottom it will resemble a nest.

Adaptations:

1. Let children glue strips of yarn, string, or other collage materials to their nests.

2. Take a nature walk and collect leaves and straw to glue to the nest.

3. Let children make birds from construction paper for their nests.

HOUSE

Materials: lunch sack, construction paper, markers, newspaper, glue, stapler

Directions:

1. Let children decorate the bottom of the sack to look like a house.

2. Tear up a sheet of newspaper and stuff in the sack. Fold over the top of the sack and staple on a roof made out of construction paper.

 

Adaptations:

1. Turn a sack upside down and let children make a building on it.

2. Take a second sack and stuff with newspaper. Insert the first sack over the second sack to make a stand-up building. Use these houses and buildings for props in the block center.

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