Building Towers

Building Centre

 Often when the students are playing with the big blocks in our class we noticed they would build structures such as; towers, houses, and castles. So we decided to build on their interest and hopefully inspire the children to build a variety of towers in our classroom by setting up a whole new building centre at the dramatic play area. The building centre had displayed books about towers, framed photos of towers , different block sizes, paper towel tubes, cups, and 3D food containers.  

A replicated tower built by 3 students from a displayed tower book

Using small blocks to build her tower.

 In a basket we had clipboards with a paper titled "My Plan". The students would pick a tower book, look through the pictures and choose a tower they wanted to build. After they chose their tower they would draw it on their plan sheet and then try to build what they drew from the materials available at the building centre. The children really enjoyed this process of building their towers. They looked like little architects hard at work!

Using cut up pool noodles from the sensory bin and small blocks to build her castle.

A Cup Tower

An ice tower built outside during recess by a handful of students

Tower built from our containers in the sensory bin

Painting their own tower



Class Tower's Painting

Some of the children chose to create and draw their own towers. Later they painted their tower above  the drawing they had done earlier. After every student had painted their tower we had a completed class art piece with unique towers of various sizes, shapes and colours that we hung on our building centre wall.