Children love to play in cardboard boxes.  Boxes can be changed and decorated into different things.  After the Kane’ohe fire station visit to our school, the children were able to tell us what kind of things they saw on the engine truck and the ladder truck.  We took some of their ideas and turned two boxes into fire engines.  The children helped paint two boxes yellow, helped paint cardboard pieces black for the tires and silver for the lights and knobs, and helped put Popsicle sticks to form the ladder.  We cut out a large square so that the children could climb into the box and attached two fabric straps to each box so that the children could stand up and “wear” the boxes.