Cardboard boxes - free entertainment
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Preschoolers
We all spend so much money on presents for our kids but they still
get the best entertainment value out of a free, empty, cardboard box –
perhaps this should tell us something!
Our current, resident cardboard box has spent most of the week being a
train or a bus with Monkey as the driver and his teddies as the
passengers. Even Brewster kitten was allowed to be a passenger at one
point, he didn’t seem to be so keen on that idea.
This morning Monkey asked me to draw a house on the bottom of the box
so we could stand it up and play firemen. I was then instructed to
draw a fire coming out of one of the windows. So today the box is a
house on fire and Monkey and his fire engines are coming to the rescue.
This keeps him busy for a while, and then the burning house becomes a
rubbish dump – obviously!
Simple things = great entertainment value. What will the box be
tomorrow? A plane, a boat? Who knows. The one thing I do know is
that Monkey won’t get bored with it any time soon.
get the best entertainment value out of a free, empty, cardboard box –
perhaps this should tell us something!
Our current, resident cardboard box has spent most of the week being a
train or a bus with Monkey as the driver and his teddies as the
passengers. Even Brewster kitten was allowed to be a passenger at one
point, he didn’t seem to be so keen on that idea.
This morning Monkey asked me to draw a house on the bottom of the box
so we could stand it up and play firemen. I was then instructed to
draw a fire coming out of one of the windows. So today the box is a
house on fire and Monkey and his fire engines are coming to the rescue.
This keeps him busy for a while, and then the burning house becomes a
rubbish dump – obviously!
Simple things = great entertainment value. What will the box be
tomorrow? A plane, a boat? Who knows. The one thing I do know is
that Monkey won’t get bored with it any time soon.
