Curious Buddies - Let's Build

Items Needed:
· Large colored blocks in basic shapes
· Light weight blocks that look like bricks (optional)
· Large plain wooden blocks in various shapes
· Trucks: dump truck, bulldozer, cement mixer and excavator (these should be fairly small but workable – with moving parts)
· Small ‘Hot Wheel’ sized trucks and bulldozers for table time
· Large box or container – big enough for kids to get inside and play
· Dry pinto beans – several packages
o Put several piles of pinto beans inside the large box along with the construction trucks and let kids haul and move the beans around with the trucks
· Construction paper (all colors)
· Glue
· Bird stickers
· Hammering toys
· Toys with bolts and screws to turn
· Books, puzzles about construction

Table Time:
1. Read book about trucks or construction
2. Give kids small trucks to hold as you read
3. Teach shapes with blocks
4. Teach big-little, short-tall (using blocks)
5. Let the kids make birdhouses, using construction paper shapes and bird stickers. Instructions below.

Play Room:
1. Have large blocks ready and help kids build different things
2. Hand out construction trucks
3. Put out box with beans so they can use the trucks

Options: Have toys with bolts and screws to turn and some type of hammering toys

Bird House: (for 3 kids)
o Cut 3 blue squares
o Cut 3 red triangles
o Cut 3 yellow circles
o Cut 3 orange or brown rectangles
Glue shapes on another sheet of construction paper to make the bird
House:
o Square – body of the house
o Triangle – roof
o Circle – hold for the bird
o Rectangle – post to hold birdhouse
Add bird stickers around the birdhouse