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Explore community services. Walk to a neighborhood post office. Go to a library story hour. Introduce people and places.
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Blocks and boxes naturally enhance children’s creative play. As part of a community helpers theme, children create fire, police, and gas stations; hospitals and clinics; libraries; schools; and other familiar buildings.
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Community helper props in pretend play encourage children to try new roles.
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Choose a job or building in your neighborhood that fascinates you.
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On a large index card, draw the person or place, or write its name with Crayola® Washable Markers and Multicultural Markers. Make more than one card if you like.
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With a Crayola® Glue Stick, attach your card to the end of a recycled cardboard shoe box or other small box.
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Play with your building or person in the blocks area. Construct a village with friends and their boxes. What vehicles help people do their jobs? (fire trucks, bookmobile, buses)
What do you get when you combine Crayola® Dry-Erase Crayons and a plastic box frame? Hours of simple fun and learning!
Create an intricate stained glass pattern. On tracing paper, translucent marker colors seem to glow in sunlight.
Celebrate the Ch'ing Ming Festival, or any festive holiday, with these Tiny Chinese Kites!
What symbols or logos would you use to represent the three branches of the U.S. government? Mark important passages in y
Create a replica of the U.S. White House! Learn about the building's history, architecture, and its famous occupant's ro