Ms. Amy's Blog @Child Central Station

We have been busy with all kinds of collaborative efforts lately, You can still hop on over to PreKandK Sharing to link up your favorite painting activities/recipes,  and the Heart Project Fundraiser for the American Heart Association  is still going on for the entire month of February! Today, we are participating in the Paper Bag Challenge hosted by Tinkerlab . (If you remember, we've done this before with magazines and cardboard boxes .) Keeping with our child-centered philosophy, I plopped a giant pile of paper bags down in the middle of the floor and asked the children if they wanted to create and if so, what other materials did they need. None of the three children who worked on this project opted to create together or make the same thing :). YEAH for creativity and giving the children an opportunity to venture off on their own, to enjoy the process and control their own products!  (By the way, there has been an interesting series of posts o...

A few weeks ago, I was invited by Rachelle over at Tinkerlab to participate in a cooperative blogging challenge/event to celebrate her blogiversary ! I was thrilled to be included with so many other wonderful bloggers out there, and who can turn down a chance to cooperate with other like-minded folk and to reuse something that others might just toss aside?  So, of course I said "yes" So, this week in place of my "What Would You Do With It?" post, I'm participating in a creative challenge, from Tinker Lab that is very much along the same lines: What would you do with a cardboard box? I know I came up with a zillion ideas of what to do with a box. We have quite a few previous posts that use cardboard boxes. They are abundant and most often free supplies to use. However, as I continued to think about this challenge, one thought kept running through my head... "K.I.S.S." "Keep It Simple, Stupid! "  I don't really car...