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Boxes! Boxes!
Explores the imaginative possibilities of everything a box can be, from a home for puppies to a colorful box kite
- GenresPicture Books
30 pages, Hardcover
Published May 14, 1984
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April 26, 2011
The title page illustration shows a large box on its side with a door cut into the end and a child's feet disappearing into the box. A touch of mystery... "Oh No! Is someone crawling into a cave? Or is it a tunnel? Is it a..." at which point the children attending story time are on board for an excursion into unknown realms. Then one of the children says, "it's a box" and you agree, "it IS a box".
The book must be one of Fisher's first. It was just what I needed to introduce the theme "Boxes" but not worth the trouble of obtaining a copy if your library no longer owns one. Find magazine pictures or make your own drawings or collect samples of different kinds of boxes. Here is the text...
A box can be small. (invite the children to make a "small" gesture using the thumb and forefinger)
A box can be tall. (invite the children to stretch one or both arms high overhead)
Narrow and slim. (invite the children to stand and turn sideways or some other motion depicting the phrase)
Or filled to the rim. (the picture showed a box of chocolates so we all pretended to gobble them up)
I have boxes for nesting. (count the nested boxes)
Napping and resting. (tip head on hands and snore)
Sparkling with treasure. (what would be in YOUR treasure box?)
And my paints for good measure. (make painting gestures)
Box a plant. (everybody crouch and slowly stand up singing to the tune Once there was a snowman "Once there was a flower, flower, flower, Once there was a flower tall tall tall" ... Now shrink back down singing "First it was a seed, seed, seed, First it was a seed small small small".)
Find an ant. (sing "the ants go marching one by one" and stop there)
Pile them high (pretend to stack blocks and then clap hands to crash them)
Look Out! They can fly! (kites)
They can pop and zoom. (mime winding a jack-in-the-box singing, "All around the cobblers bench the monkey chased the weasel, the monkey thought t'was all in fun. POP goes the weasel" CLAP loud)
Boxes! Boxes! All around my room.
We like doing actions during story time.
The book must be one of Fisher's first. It was just what I needed to introduce the theme "Boxes" but not worth the trouble of obtaining a copy if your library no longer owns one. Find magazine pictures or make your own drawings or collect samples of different kinds of boxes. Here is the text...
A box can be small. (invite the children to make a "small" gesture using the thumb and forefinger)
A box can be tall. (invite the children to stretch one or both arms high overhead)
Narrow and slim. (invite the children to stand and turn sideways or some other motion depicting the phrase)
Or filled to the rim. (the picture showed a box of chocolates so we all pretended to gobble them up)
I have boxes for nesting. (count the nested boxes)
Napping and resting. (tip head on hands and snore)
Sparkling with treasure. (what would be in YOUR treasure box?)
And my paints for good measure. (make painting gestures)
Box a plant. (everybody crouch and slowly stand up singing to the tune Once there was a snowman "Once there was a flower, flower, flower, Once there was a flower tall tall tall" ... Now shrink back down singing "First it was a seed, seed, seed, First it was a seed small small small".)
Find an ant. (sing "the ants go marching one by one" and stop there)
Pile them high (pretend to stack blocks and then clap hands to crash them)
Look Out! They can fly! (kites)
They can pop and zoom. (mime winding a jack-in-the-box singing, "All around the cobblers bench the monkey chased the weasel, the monkey thought t'was all in fun. POP goes the weasel" CLAP loud)
Boxes! Boxes! All around my room.
We like doing actions during story time.
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