Beautiful Junk Creations

 

Even in Kindergarten the students do not need all the fancy things that are sold in the store in order to get their imaginations operating. I have been saving all kinds of recyclable materials for a couple of weeks and decided to put out the box of materials to see what they would build or create.

 

First two JK boys in the afternoon created a city for the cars to travel around. The road for the cars they told me was the table because it was dark brown and most of the roads are black. "But we are pretending it is dark brown. Then we built a city of buildings around the road, because when we are in the cars we see gas stations, buildings, houses and restuarants".

 

 

Another day three SK boys built a castle using many of the materials. Inside the castle were dinosaurs, but they were pretending they were dragons. The dragons were protecting the princess from a wicket fairy who wanted to kidnap the princess and change her into something ugly. All the people in the kingdom liked the princess because she was so kind to them and helped the poor people.

 

At the beginning of the week the boys asked me if I could buy them a car mat so they could use it for the cars to drive on. First, I asked them what they wanted to have on the car mat. They explained, they wanted lots of roads, buildings, houses, stop signs and traffic lights. I explained to them I could not afford to buy them a car mat but I could give them a large piece of brown paper and they could create their own.

The boys and the girls liked this idea and became very busy with the markers to create their own car mat. Personally I think it is far better and is put to greater use than a purchased car mat. Examine what the wonderful Kindergarten creative imaginations made.