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3rd Annual Tissue Box Challenge

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I look forward to seeing what each of you will come up with for the Tissue Box Challenge. This year Maggie of Red Ted Art and Lisa of Two Bears Farm will the be the judges of the challenge. Both of these ladies are awesomely creative.

I will be sitting on the sidelines gathering prizes, pinning your creations on Pinterest and sharing them on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.

There are prizes! The first place winner will be sent a collection of Tiger Tale Books. The second place winner will receive a $10 gift card to Amazon.com.

 

Tissue Box Challenge


I would love for you to add the Tissue Box Challenge Badge to your post and share your post on social media. I will be looking for #tissueboxchallenge. When I find them, I will retweet and reshare them.

Here is our tissue box challenge creation:

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I pulled out all the building supplies that set aside for the challenge. There were paper towel rolls, tissue boxes, plastic bottles and random cardboard boxes.

I asked JDaniel to help me to plan something to build. He suggested that I just watch him build. That is just what I did.

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“This is a resort hotel!”JDaniel announced. The top two tissue boxes are the guest rooms and the tubes between and beside them are the elevators. Actually the  horizontal tube is an observation tower.

The bottom tissue box is the science center. It is currently housing a special microorganism exhibit. With JDaniel’s love of small creatures I think this will become a permanent exhibit.

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The tube he is putting into place in the picture above will be the home of the rock formation exhibit. It houses replicas of stalactites and stalagmites . We visited a cavern during our Spring Break trip. It must have made quite an impact, because the rest of the creation contains a lot things he saw or heard about while visiting the cavern.

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The first horizontal tube on the left is a salamander room. There were tons of salamanders in the caverns we visited. There  are tube rooms added for other animals that live in caverns. One tube houses the cave spider room and another houses the owl bats.

The angled tube on the right is the home of a fossil room that has whirlpools carvings in the ceiling just as the cavern did. The plastic bottle houses the resort’s zoo.

When you first look at this creation, you don’t notice all the wonderful exhibits and animals. I was able to view them through the eyes of the resort’s creator. As I listened to his words, the building came to life. I was able to ooo and awe at the creative ideas that went it to making it. What a wonderful tour guide, JDaniel was.

Tissue Box Challenge

I would have totally missed out if I had been there to ask him to tell me what he was thinking as he was building. What an amazing time we had!

Now it is time to share what you or your children created. Please share you link below.

Oh! Please take a few minutes to “ooo and awe” over the other creations linked up. I am sure your comments would be greatly appreciated.

 

 
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Comments

  1. I can’t wait to see what people create this year! I know I won’t be entering the contest, but I still wanted to create something. I just need to find time – I have been swamped lately!

  3. I so love that he chattered on as he created and let you know all about his construction ideas!

  6. He is *so* creative!! You are so right! If you hadn’t been there to hear all of the things he was thinking, you’d have missed half of what the wonderful things he was doing meant. Fantastic!! –The Dose Girls

  8. Meant to say earlier, please tell JDaniel that I LOVE his hotel! What an imagination!

    I need to get out the recycling box and see what my kids could come up with one day — you never know what’s going on in their heads!

  15. I love what he came up with! What a fun way to let your child lead the activity!

    Thanks for linking up to TGIF! I hope to see you linked up again later today =)

    Have a great weekend,
    Beth

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