First, we researched castles and the children chose photographs from the internet to print out. They used these as inspiration when creating their own castle blueprints.
We also explored books about castles to help us identify important features.
After castle blueprints had been created, we compared all of our blueprints.
This helped us generate a list of important features we wanted to include in the castle for our dramatic play space.
We then created one blueprint with all of the features that we would follow when building our castle.
We knew we had to move our old kitchen furniture out of the drama area.
Then we got to building! We needed lots and lots of boxes!
After making grey paint, painting became our next big task.
Finally, we added a Canadian flag to our castle and it was complete!
Since this was such a complex project, we had the children reflect on the process they had undertaken. They selected photographs that showed their work and wrote about their experiences. We put this up in the dramatic play area so that they may further study it.
No comments:
Post a Comment