Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Building Forts!

building forts together
Using the cereal boxes, shoe boxes, tissue tubes, telephone wire and anything else they could find, the kids worked in teams to build forts. (Leo, Jonathan and Jose had painted all the boxes with gesso, last week.)
building forts together
First a discussion of structure
building forts together
Assembly begins
building forts together
"I'm sure we can work these huge wooden poles somewhere into our fort."
building forts together
Adding details and architectural elements
building forts together
Certainly plenty of materials available.
building forts together
Painting
building forts together
Leo handled any glue gun requests.
building forts together

building forts together

building forts together            building forts together
This would be a cupcake house. Cupcake shaped, cupcake landscape, cupcake doorknob.
building forts together

building forts together

building forts together
Some forts from Tuesday's class
building forts together
and every fort needs a functional canon.
building forts together

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