We just finished the Boxcar Children, and everyone loved this story. Saturday night we watched the movie, and Sunday we worked on making a fun tablescape.
The kids each picked a box out of the recycling bin and painted them red to make their own boxcar. We also cut out black circles for the wheels. This was a fun project and the kids really spent a long time painting.
On our table we drew a long train track and then we added details from the story to each boxcar.
Some of our details: the brook with the swimming pool the kids built, the table cloth hemmed by Violet, a fire to cook on, the tree stump to step up into the boxcar and blueberry bushes.
We made boxcar stew and had bread with cherry dumplings for desert. Carter was the only one brave enough to try cherry dumplings, which he liked. Ava declared loudly that she doesn't like squishy fruit and of course they all hated the stew. Well, at least the bread was a hit!
It was funny discussing the characters in the story. I asked them "Which character do you think you are most like?" Carter related to Henry, the oldest boy, Dawson decided he was Benny and Ava felt she was like Jessie because "she takes care of everyone especially baby Andrew."
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