Tuesday, January 24, 2012

We Built A Car

 If I Built a Car is a fun book written by the illustrator of the Mercy Watson Series.  It's a cute rhyming story, but a little long for preschoolers. It did hold my 3 year old's attention while they were describing a car that would have a pool, a snack bar, that can go underwater, and even fly!  It was fun to think about what we'd like to have in our own car.

Afterward we built our own car out of boxes.  This is certainly not a new idea but we had tons of fun with it.
We used paper plates for the wheels and steering wheels and plastic cups with flameless candles for the headlights.
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5 comments:

  1. How fun! I will have to look for that book at the library...it looks like something my boys would enjoy! I KNOW they would love building their own car. Usually our boxes are turned into life boats as they like to pretend the bunk beds are a ship!

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  2. That definitely looks like fun. Building cars is always a fun art project. The picture of your boys in the boxes brings me back to my childhood. I always used old boxes to build imaginary things and a car was definitely one of them. I will definitely check out that book.

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  3. Awesome! I love your cardboard car! Something I should remember to do with my little guy in the future. :)

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  4. Wonderful ways to make your story books come alive. Very fun.

    Veronica

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  5. A dear friend sent this book to my son when he was born with a sweet note that included, "Things are only impossible until they are not." What a fun and imaginative activity to do with him! Thanks for the inspiration!

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