Paper Playgrounds

This was another craft from the Shing Lee art book. It was a lot of fun to do and made the kids think! You take strips of different colored contruction paper and bend, twist, or curl it into different designs. Then you glue the designs onto the paper to make a whole playground of paper slides and jungle gyms.

I made this one with Annalise. Honestly, I did most of the making, she helped quite a bit in deciding the arrangement. It was a little over her ability level. But that did not dampen her enjoyment of it. And at the end she couldn't resist adding a few paper kids to play :)

One detail she asked me to make two paper moms and a paper bench for them to sit on and talk. And I forgot to get a picture of it - she had me make a paper mom holding a paper baby to slide down the slide together.

Caleb made his all on his own. I only had to show him how to make steps and make curls and he just took off. The trampoline was his own design.

I thought this one was one of the best projects so far. :)