Monday, September 10, 2012

Cosmic Nesting Boxes

Ever since I saw the Cosmic Nesting Boxes here I've been in love! What a great way to emphasize each person's place in the Cosmic World!  We cannot afford to buy it though so I began looking for alternate options.  I saw some awesome alternates at various blogs sites, but I just could not find enough nesting boxes!  Then while Garage Sale-ing this summer I saw this toddler nesting box and it was priced at .50 cents!  Even if you were to buy a new set of this it would cost you less than $20!


I then googled images of the internet and pasted it on the box.  I did not bother to cover up the rest of the designs on the box, though it would have been nice to!  I removed the 10th piece that this set comes with and replaced it with two "Pawns" (it you look closely at the picture below you should be able to see it on top!) from an un-used chess set to represent D and M!


On our culture shelf ready to be explored!

11 comments:

  1. Nice!! I didn't realize that we live in the same stare. Have a great week. Thank you for sharing.

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  2. Thanks for sharing this great idea!! I love it!

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  3. I absolutely love your cosmic nesting boxes ... and the price is awesome! Thanks so much for linking up with Montessori Monday. I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page and pinned it to my Kids' Geography Activities Board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/kids-geography-activities/

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  4. Really awesome! These look great! When I made mine the boxes were too small to add a word! I may have to remake them! :) Happy Schooling!

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  5. Thank you for sharing this! I have the same boxes sitting in the "sell" pile in my basement. I've seen this done before, but forgot about it and you executed it beautifully! Pinned it!

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  6. I just featured your awesome cosmic nesting boxes post and photo in my DIY cosmic nesting boxes post at http://livingmontessorinow.com/2012/09/17/montessori-monday-diy-cosmic-nesting-boxes-map-towers-and-me-on-the-map/

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  7. Beautiful job!! I have those boxes too!! doing nothing there!!lol Good idea!! Thanks for share them!!

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  8. I just made these for my kids and they are a big hit. I laminated each picture and used removable stickies to put them on the box (just thinking I may want to remove them one day, but they came out so well, maybe not!). They have already been playing with them, and my DD read each one to my son. No explanation or lesson needed because it's built right into the activity. Love it! Thank you for sharing!

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