How to make a box fort (featuring Extended Day.)

Do you have a box at home? Then start creating!

Make a box fort!

Grab a box.

Decorate it with your markers, stickers, and tape.

Cut doors and windows. Attach fabric for a curtain.

Make a cozy space with pillows, blankets, and stuffed animals.

Do you have more than one box?

Connect your boxes together to make a box compound.

Other Box Art options:

Make a box car.

Make a box rocket.

Have fun and share what you make!

Jessica.mcbee@icloud.com

We would love to post pictures of other IJP forts 

in our IJP Virtual Art and Extended Day photo album:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/1GiB8g272apjQ9BAA 

Recycled Material Art Continues in Extended Day

Cassette Box Collages in Extended Day

As the interest in recycled materials continues, the children were offered cassette boxes, fabric scraps, scissors, and school glue.

The children cut fabric scraps and glued them inside the boxes.

The finished products were boxes featuring beautiful, colorful, collages shining out from the inside.

Cardboard Painting in Extended Day

Scraps of cardboard sourced from recycled boxes were offered as canvases. 

Paint brushes as well as paint scrapers were set up as tools.

The children painted their recycled canvases with tempera paint and glitter.

Many children painted stripes and "rainbows."

                             Some enjoyed blending the colors with the various paint scrapers.

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                        Anything can become art! What will the IJP children transform next?