Providing real life inspirations.

This structure is inspired by a photo of a child from a previous class.

When an office was being cleared out in the main school a load of old posters from magazines were found & all the teachers were given an chance to look through them & see if we wanted any of them. I chose several ones that were of different structural or architectural places and put them up in the block corner. I wasn't fully expecting that any 3 or 4 year old would try to emulate the structures but was rather hoping to provide something for a discussion point or starting focus for building. I also have some photos of things that other children have built with the materials in the block corner. 
Then I forgot about the posters until several months later I saw this structure emerging in the blocks & wanted to catch a photo for this child's portfolio. It was only when I looked at the photo later that I could see that he was actually taking his inspiration from the poster directly behind him. This, once again proves that children thrive when given real, concrete examples to work from.