Literacy Kit Guide: Forts
Forts by Katie Venit is a great book to read to children that focus on themes of shelter, imaginative play, special spaces.
Along with reading the book with your little one, try out this activities with affordable and accessible materials!
Materials:
- Paper
- Pipe cleaners
- Masking tape
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Construction Paper
- Any other craft materials you have!
Instructions:
Allow your child to come up with the idea on creating their fort or shelter and use our ideas below as prompts!
- Explore everything you can do with paper by asking them, “What can we do with this piece of paper? Can we…”
- Curl it?
- Fold it?
- Bend it?
- Tear it?
- Crumple it?
- Tear pieces of tape for them to stick and attach pieces together
- Use pipe cleaners to help set the scene of the shelter, home, or fort. Shapes you can craft with pipe cleaners include
- Letters and family names
- Numbers
- Animals & other critters
- Flowers and trees
- Shapes
Keep those pipe cleaners handy on outings as they perfect items for brain-building hands-on creativity! Children learn best from hands-on, meaningful activities with real people, real objects, and real books! We hope you have fun exploring and creating!
