Chapter 7: Cardboard

“Inside a big cardboard box, a child is transported to a world of his or her own, one where anything is possible.”

Anonymous

Versatile Cardboard

M’s exploration started with this statements:

“Look Ms. Liwa, it can be a ….chair, bracelet, mask, headband…”

“Look, it looks like a bee house”. As we started the exploration of cardboard, she walked around to try out the different boxes available, in search of which ones would be strong enough to be her chair. None seemed strong enough. So she decided to just hold on to it and pretended to sit on it. Through this journey, we noticed M discovering the qualities that cardboard can afford. She then saw a friend peeling the outer part of the cardboard and she did the same. She thought it looked like a bee house.

She cut a piece of the cardboard, and put it on her wrist. She said, “it is a bracelet"