What’s in Your Attic?

Don’t let the things you love sit and gather dust!

Inspire your class to create time capsules of the objects that bring them joy. First, prompt your students to collect memorabilia that holds special memories for them, like old drawings, ticket stubs or toys. Then, organize a giant craft day where each student brings these objects into school. Provide old Tupperware, shoeboxes or tissue boxes for each student to put their treasures inside of and create their time capsule. Afterwards, use glue, markers, paints and construction paper to decorate the outside of the capsules and label them accordingly. Once complete, ask each student to put their capsule somewhere safe. Throughout the year, ask everyone to periodically revisit their capsules and write down a memory that one of the objects brings up. At the end of the year, reflect on the capsules and the stories that they have generated. What objects would you remove? What would stay the same?

To support this unit, use the Your Dream Magic City and Your Dream Magic City’s Characters Creativity Pages.