Preschoolers begin the Box Study

January 7^th will be the start of our new study on Boxes. Children are curious about the different types of boxes, how boxes are made, how people use boxes, and how people move very large boxes. We think this study of boxes will be engaging and fun!

We need your help to get our study going. We’d love any help you can provide in gathering boxes to investigate. We’ll need many different types of boxes – boxes of all shapes, sizes, and materials. If you have books or pictures related to boxes, we’d love to borrow those, too. Below is a list of suggested items, but feel free to send other items that you think may add to our exploration. Please label items with your child’s name so we can return them to you at the end of our study. We promise to take good care of them!  

Food boxes                                         File boxes

Wooden boxes                                    Boxes with different types of closures

Plastic boxes                                       Empty matchboxes

Shoeboxes                                           Lunch boxes

Music boxes                                         Toolboxes

 Round boxes                                       Hatboxes

 Appliance boxes                                 Moving boxes

 Tissue boxes                                         Polystyrene boxes

What You Can Do at Home

Explore a variety of boxes with your child and talk about each box’s characteristics. How big is it? What is it made of? Are there pictures or words on it? What shape does it have? How many sides does it have? Provide empty boxes of different sizes and help your child transform them into different things. Your child’s imagination will lead the way! Invent games to play with boxes. Stack them. Take them apart and rebuild them.

We will show something we’ve done with boxes during our February Family Fun Night. Thank you for playing an important role in our learning.