A House for Eyeore

I found myself in the posession of 30 or 40 rolled up newspaper "sticks" and no apparent use for them. Our class had recently become the proud owners of a boxed collection of "The House At Pooh Corner", some of the classic Winnie the Pooh stories by A.A.Milne. As luck would have it, one of the girls brought in a large stuffed Eyeore on the same day that we decided to read In Which a House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore. The only reasonable plan of action for the morning was to take the newspaper sticks and build a house for our visiting stuffed Eyeore.

I whipped together the box frame and "roof" shape using a stapler and some tape, then I let the kids go from there. They added more sticks with tape, and even taped on some paper walls (their own idea).

Squealing with delight, they bowled each other over crawling in and out of the tiny house. This necessitated some serious reconstruction, but all together the house was not completely destroyed until about four thirty in the afternoon.