Object: A sheet of plain white paper

Good morning, boys and girls. Look what I've got with me today. (Wait for reaction.) What is this paper for? What are some of the uses we could make of it? (Take four or five answers or suggest some.) We could write a letter or story, draw a picture, roll it into a ball, tear it to bits, cut it into shapes, fold it, make an airplane.

Yes, I could do any of those things with my sheet of paper. Now let me tell you what I want to represent w…