Tissue Box Challenge Archives

3rd Annual Tissue Box Challenge

April 16, 2013 By Deirdre

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.

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:

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

Read.Explore.Learn.- Big Bear Hug Based Activities

April 20, 2012 By Deirdre

Welcome to Read.Explore.Learn.! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing ways you have learned with and explored books.

Steps:

Link your activity below.

Please place the Read.Explore.Learn. badge on your post or create a link back to this meme.

Please try to visit at least three of the other people that have placed links below and leave a comment. I will visit each of you and leave a kind comment.

If you are not linking up an activity and are just visiting, please try to stop by a few of the links below.

My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

I love the Big Bear Hug by Nicholas Oldland. It is my favorite new library book. JDaniel likes it too, but it isn’t his favorite and I am not sure why. He loves to give hugs and so does the bear in this book.

Bear is a hugger. He hugs everything and everyone he comes across. He freaks out a rabbit by hugging him when the rabbit thinks he is going to eat him. He tries to hug a moose, but his arms don’t reach around him. He hugs small birds, smelly skunks, and scary snakes too.

Bear’s favorite things to hug are trees. He just loves trees. He hugs trees that are big, little, apple, peach or pear. He will hug trees of every kind everywhere around the woods.

One day a man came to the woods and tried to cut down a wonderful tree. Bear freaked out about the idea of cutting down a tree. At first, he wanted to kill the man, but he decided he is not that kind of bear. Bear ended up doing what he loves to best and freaked the man out. The man runs away after bear hugs him.

With the man gone Bear does what he loves best to the tree. He hugs it.

What did we do after reading the book?

Tissue Box Bear and Story Retelling

JDaniel and I found pictures on the internet that matched many of the things the bear-hugged. After printing them out, JDaniel used watercolors or markers to color most of the pictures.

When the pictures had dried we used them to retell the story. After our retelling time, JDaniel stored the stick puppets in the tissue box the bear is hugging.

Reviewed Items to Recycle

I found a wonderful chart on the internet that displayed the items that can be recycled and lists the ones that you can not recycle. We did two activities with the chart.

The first activity involved using chopsticks to pick up things that should be recycled and placing them in the bear tissue box. I am sure the bear would only want items you can recycle in his box.

The second activity was to go through one of the grocery store circulars that we get in the mail and circle the items that had containers that could be recycled.

What did you do this week?

Reminder: The Tissue Box Challenge will end on the 22nd of April. There is still time to add your own wonderful tissue box creations to the link up. The winner will receive a $20 Amazon Gift Card.

The 2nd Annual Tissue Box Challenge

April 16, 2012 By Deirdre

We are so excited about getting to see the projects you have created! There were so many ways to approach this challenge. We have no doubt that each of your creations will be unique and special.

Here is what I came up with. It is a bear hugging a box based on the book Big Bear Hug. I will be sharing more about the book and how we used this bear-hugging box on Friday’s Read.Explore.Learn. post.

Here are the Tissue Box Challenge Rules:

Reuse a tissue box to create something fun with your children.

Create a post about your creation that includes a link to the Tissue Box Challenge or the challenge badge.

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Share your post on the Tissue Box Challenge linkup between April 16th –April 22nd.
Our wonderful judge Maggy Woodley of Red Ted Art will select first, second, and third prize winners.

What are the prizes?

The first prize winner will receive a $20.00 Amazon Gift Card.

The second prize winner will win a Plastic Bag Monster Activity Kit!

Please link your creation below!

This event has ended.

Tissue Box Challenge Winners!

April 24, 2011 By Deirdre

Each of the entries in the was truly wonderful. I am so glad that The Activity Mom and I didn’t have to make the choice.

We left making the choice of winner up to the amazing Maggie of Red Ted Art.

She wrote this in a note to us today:

My is it HARD to choose…. But so cool to see all the ideas!

The first prize winner is the The Three Pigs by My Oatmeal Kisses. They have won a learning kit for Time for Tots

Maggie shared that she liked how they saw a house in the “tissue box” – they propped it up and hey presto you have a basic house. She also loved it when you make nursery rhymes or stories real by creating a craft around it. I can just imagine my children playing with this and putting on a “show”.
Wonderful. (and of course, I am rather partial to the Loo Roll piggies too).

The second prize winner is The Earth Day Bird by Creativity My Passion. They have won a set of three paper back books from Tiger Tales Books.

Maggie shared that she loved how they saw the nice print on the box and converted into something wonderful – i.e. you couldn’t have made it with an ordinary box… and it is a wonderful way to look at something ordinary and see some extraordinary in it! They used the pattern and part of the box to form the new bird. It is like a Pheonix rising from the ashes.

The winner of the third prize is Sensory Box by Two Bears Farm. She will be receiving a set of board books from Tiger Tales.

Maggie shared that there were two “mystery boxes” submitted, and of course both ideas were fabulous. It was really hard to choose one over the other. But I went for this one in the end, as I thought it was fun to have the 3 different boxes to put your hands into. It is nicely decorated and the little curtain is great. I can just imagine the “excitement” of having a feel and reminds me of science days at the museum when I was
little.

Honorary Mentions

The other sensory box by My Montessori Moments

Painting with tissues boxes by Teach Preschool.
Maggie thought it was a great way for exploring art – colours and textures. It was so bright and colourful!

Rocket by Baby Brainstorm.
Maggie love it because it combined a fabulous set of recycled materials and looks brilliant!

We want to thank all who entered for sharing their super creations with us!

Welcome to the Tissue Box Challenge!

April 17, 2011 By Deirdre

We are so excited about getting to see the projects you have created! There were so many ways to approach this challenge. We have no doubt that each of your creations will be unique and special.

Here are the Tissue Box Challenge Rules:

Reuse a tissue box to create something fun with your children.

Create a post about your creation that includes a link to the Tissue Box Challenge or the challenge badge.

Share your post on the Tissue Box Challenge linkup between April 17th –April 22nd.
Our wonderful judge Maggy Woodley of Red Ted Art will select a first, second and third prize winners.

What are the prizes?

The first prize winner will receive a learning kit from Time for Tots.