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• Children enjoy creating new environments and activities using everyday household materials.
• It’s a way of providing for large muscle play indoors. It’s especially good on really cold or wet days when they can’t get outside to ‘blow off steam’.

• Once inside the tunnel, being hidden away from others offers lots of scope for using their imagination.

You need some:

• large boxes or cartons with the ends folded in to make a tunnel
• chairs
• cushions
• blankets or sheets.
• With your child, arrange the cartons end to end so they form a tunnel. Add in chairs with blankets draped over them to make the tunnel longer. Cushions can be used to block off any gaps in the tunnel ‘walls’.
• Help them get involved in deciding what goes where.
• A small window can be added by cutting a three sided flap in one of the carton walls, this lets the window both open and close.

• Encourage them to try going through the tunnel. Mix it up, try going forwards and backwards, on your back on your puku, with eyes open and then shut.