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Every two months tinkerlab lays down a challenge to children inviting them to take an ordinary material and turn it into something creative. This month it’s all about paper bags. Further down this post you can see all the wonderful ideas other bloggers have some up with – click through on each link to see how they made them – and you can join in too and add your own link.

First though, here’s how the girls came up with their paper bag monsters.

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Happy Christmas!

Very best wishes to you and your family – we hope you have a wonderful celebration. Thank you for reading along with us this year – especially to all those of you who have linked to the Play Academy, left comments and shared our posts on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. We are so . . . → Read More: Happy Christmas from NurtureStore

Creativity just isn’t tidy. This was before breakfast.

What have you been playing this week? Come and share an idea with us.

1. Link up a post to share a play idea, craft or activity with us.

2. Add a text link back to the Play Academy from your post to invite others to come and share the ideas.

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B’s been behaving out of character this week: up before anyone else, dressing in her school uniform without any prompting, and downstairs before anyone else is even out of bed. What’s going on? Junk model fever! She’s been up and at ‘em, and in the playroom creating. Here’s the result: a sail ship manned by a crew of fairies, complete with ship’s wheel, crows nest, trap door and anchor. When you’re struck by the junk model fever you just have to get crafty – even if it is six o’clock in the morning.

What have you been playing this week?

1. Link up a post to share a play idea, craft or activity with us.

2. Add a text link back to the Play Academy from your post to invite others to come and share the ideas.

3. Take a look at some of the other ideas linked and get some fabulous play ideas for the weekend. Bloggers just love to receive your comments, so please take a minute to let them know you stopped by.

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Two other idea swaps you might like to join:

Friday 24th June is the Carnival of Water Play

Thursday 30th June is the Sunflower Festival

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