You can put together this set with cardboard boxes, bottle tops, freezer bags, and a few other items. How adorable are these laundry machines? I like to encourage role-play with chores since these are activities that your students will likely have to do in the future. You can even use smaller boxes and containers as pretend food. Maybe you won’t be able to store real food in here but a cardboard fridge can be a great addition to imaginative play. The activity can also prompt a fun lesson on outer space.

These space shuttles could be a great partner activity with the robot heads above! You can use the link below to learn how to cut up and glue your cardboard together to create this space shuttle. You can have a robot role-play session after everyone is finished to add some extra fun. Your students can create a robot head using a box and whatever art supplies you have available. Here’s a futuristic example from the book.

Your students can help paint boxes and cut out cardstock wheels to create their very own cars. Luckily, this is a fairly easy craft to make. Vroom vroom! The first example in the book is the vision that the box is a car. You can create this indoor maze using boxes, binder clips, and an X-ACTO knife to cut out the entrances. Here is a fun and physical cardboard box activity. This activity can work for all grade levels as the houses can have a more complex design for the older kids. Welcome to the box house! Your students can create their fantasy home using cardboard boxes and whatever art supplies you have laying around. Here is a list of 22 activities, inspired by this story, to promote imagination in the classroom! 1. The box can be whatever students imagine it to be. They are playing with a car or a mountain. In the story, the bunny is not merely playing with a box. “Not a Box”, a book written by Antoinette Portis, can encourage your readers’ creativity by thinking outside the box.

Engaging your students’ imaginations can be important for raising innovative problem solvers.

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