This roll of masking tape has been providing literally hours of fun on and off for the past week.
Immy has raided our ‘useful box’ and made interesting sculptures;
Healed injured friends;
Dressed all manner of ‘people’ in the latest fashion for any occasion;
Created all sorts of random, interesting but beautiful tape arrangements, like this;
And this;
And, fed the multitudes.
Tape is a fantastic medium for children’s learning and development. For more information about the learning potential of tape, visit Deborah at Teach Preschool for a great post all about tape, including links to a number of really interesting tape projects from preschools around the world.
What have your children been creating this week?
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Don't leave me hanging! How long is a roll of tape! I want to know!
Looks like she had plenty of fun and a lot of time wasted
Teacher Tom, value of learning and play with tape – it is immeasurable I fear.
Amanda, it is never time wasted when it is time spent learning through play and creating
We made easter baskets today – they will be up on my blog on Monday but basically the kids stick stuff on the outside of them covered in sticky-side-out packaging tape – keeps it on really well and inexpensive and a lot less mess than glue!
PS: Eloise has that Jemima, her first 'dolly'. awww. still going strong 5 years later and like yours, the dungarees are *somewhere* lol
After a term of tape, we are down to our last roll at preschool so watch out – once they get started they just don't stop!
I've just ordered another batch of tape! Watch out!
I guess we're going to actually measure one of them to see how much is in a single roll.
We have been making car ramps out of card board boxes this week.
I love masking tape, it is so much easier for kids to use than sticky tape. I love how Immy made a bandage – will show this to my preschooler!