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...