Fairy Tale Builders

After reading The Three Little Pigs, the children used straws, popsicle sticks and lego "bricks" to build a strong house for their pig.  The children learned to take their time (like the third little pig did), to keep trying when it got tricky and to to share great ideas with each other. When the house was finished, the hairdryer "wolf" huffed and puffed to see if the house would blow down or not.
  

  

  

Fairy Tale Scientists

After reading Jack and the Beanstalk, we decided to help Jack find a quicker way down the beanstalk to escape the ogre.  The children had a variety of supplies (newspaper, coffee filters, paper bags, grocery bags, string, pipe cleaners, elastics and yarn) to design a parachute for Jack.

 

We had fun testing them out on the play structure!