A recipe for half an hour of fun on a wet, grey afternoon in the British summertime!
Take one ENORMOUS cardboard box and put it in a dark spot in the house (it was very dark inside but hard to photograph!)
Find a box of glowsticks that you bought ages ago in the £1 shop and never used! OOooo and Awww together in wonder as each one lights up a different colour! Whoosh and whizz them around in circles and make beautiful patterns and pictures with them. 
Pop in a couple of torches all ready for our weekend camping trip and explore the shapes and shadows that can be made! Pretend to be exploring a treasure cave and hide things from the pirates (apparently!)
Have copious amounts of fun exploring, investigating, thinking and imagining!
Perfect!
We are now off camping in the pouring rain for 4 days. I’m sorry if I don’t manage 5-a-Day books this week. I will try!
Ah, glowsticks, so much fun!
We’ve been having some cardboard box fun today too, making garages and ramps for our collection of hot wheels cars.
Have a gorgeous weekend!
Nicola
PS. I linked to you today in my post, Things I know, it’s great to meet you.
Love your blog, and find it very inspirational!
Great! I could see having hours of fun with tihs idea!
That does look like fun! I love all the colors.
I love this activity! We recently did something similar…we explored glow sticks for three days. We did glow sticks in the sensory table, glow sticks in big boxes, and dancing with glow sticks. What great fun on a rainy day!
P.S. If you want, you can see pictures of our fun with glow sticks here:
http://play-basedclassroom.blogspot.com/2011/07/glow-sticks-in-big-boxes.html
Another piece of evidence to support the idea that there’s no better plaything than a cardboard box. What a great idea to add glowsticks. Thanks for sharing this.