A Construction Center provides the opportunity for the child to build buildings, bridges, forts, roads, towns, houses, and creating forms of transportation (buses, trains, cars, boats) using cardboard boxes, lumber, tires, large blocks and other easily and safely moved, arranged and/or stacked objects.

pasting and gluing things together, shoe boxes, milk cartons, creamers -- to make trucks, boats, dollhouses and innumerable other items as conceived by the child

landscaping, terrain's of sand, mud, dirt, snow -- with grass, twigs, sticks, water, in sandbox or open area

creating jewelry and headbands, macaroni, beads, paper shapes, wood, fabric, buttons, yarn, styrofoam chips

creating textured collages - fabric, corrugated cardboard, buttons, corduroy, satin, fur, wool, newspaper, yarn, string, cotton balls

carpentry with real tools, lumber, nails, glue, screws

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