Nursery World - We've explored… boxes

Staff at one Yorkshire setting replaced many resources with boxes, a project which culminated in children collaborating on building a huge castle. By Annette Rawstrone

It's often said that the best toy doesn't come in a box. It is the box. Children attending Tots ‘n’ Tykes Nursery in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, found this out at the start of the year when they returned to nursery to find the majority of their usual resources had been replaced by loads of cardboard boxes of all shapes and sizes.

‘After Christmas the children always come into nursery so excited and hyper because of all the fun and presents they’ve received,’ says nursery manager Yona Smith. ‘We wanted them to have an activity that would help them to ground and engage them. There is so much potential from simple boxes. We had no expectations of what the children would do with them, we just wanted them to explore.’

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