The Bug Building

At the Museum of Steam and Technology, we usually cook up some activities for kids on Family Day. This year, the theme was ‘Building Cities’ – one of the activities was to recycle old cartons, cardboard, paper, tubes, etc. and add a building to our 3D model city.

The activity area is not always staffed, and because it was quite a busy day with tours, I didn’t get a chance to see the city building in action. In a way, that made it even more impressive when I walked into the Woodshed at the end of the day and saw this awesome recycled city that had grown in just a few hours.

There were not one, but TWO versions of the Museum of Steam and Technology, recreated with cereal boxes and toilet paper tubes.

My favourite was the mysteriously labelled “Bug Building” that was still under construction at the end of the day. When I asked the little girl who had made the “Bug Building” with her Dad what a Bug Building was used for, she gave me an odd look and said very matter-of-factly, “It’s for Bugs.”  Makes sense.