One of our all-time nursery 'best buys' must be a £40 roll of corrugated cardboard that we used to create a castle complete with ramparts, dungeons and a fire-breathing dragon. We had a topic on fairy stories that really captured the children's imaginations, especially when we went to see 'Tangled' at the cinema. The children were taken by the idea of castles, the ramparts and drawbridges. Staff thought it would be perfect to create a castle because we felt that the home corners tended to be geared more towards girls and we wanted something that would also engage the boys' imaginations.
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