We have a LOT of cardboard all over our house. In fact I feel like we have boxes coming out of our ears. The good thing is that I have a lot of fun ideas to use the cardboard (stay tuned). The other day the boys wanted to do something and I was busily trying to unpack so I didn't have time to necessarily do something with them. I gave them each a box and told them to turn it into a car. It was fun to see what the boys came up with.
Lincoln decided to do some "schedules" instead of a car and helped everyone figure out their schedule. He was thrilled and still busy, so it was all good.
I ended up getting sucked into the project and we made steering wheels that actually turned, which the kids thought was great (although they weren't very pretty, they were functional). The boys had wings and fins on their car so they could both fly and swim. Pretty creative huh?
This was another thing we made with the cardboard. I copied
this idea. One of our favorite friends just turned 40 and his wife threw him a surprise party. I saw this little idea and thought it would be right up his ally. Um...hopefully none of you are offended :) We thought it was pretty funny, as did he. I just cut out some cardboard squares from a random box and used packing tape to put them all together (Josh did the taping part. He is such a good sport!) Then I hotglued scrapbook paper to it, hotglued some floral foam inside it (this is at the dollar store!), covered the floral foam with tissue paper and started sticking suckers in it. I wanted to make the writing part look a little nicer, but our printer isn't hooked up, and I can't find any of my scrapbooking supplies, so we made do.
We have a LOT of cardboard all over our house. In fact I feel like we have boxes coming out of our ears. The good thing is that I have a lot of fun ideas to use the cardboard (stay tuned). The other day the boys wanted to do something and I was busily trying to unpack so I didn't have time to necessarily do something with them. I gave them each a box and told them to turn it into a car. It was fun to see what the boys came up with.
Lincoln decided to do some "schedules" instead of a car and helped everyone figure out their schedule. He was thrilled and still busy, so it was all good.
I ended up getting sucked into the project and we made steering wheels that actually turned, which the kids thought was great (although they weren't very pretty, they were functional). The boys had wings and fins on their car so they could both fly and swim. Pretty creative huh?
This was another thing we made with the cardboard. I copied this idea. One of our favorite friends just turned 40 and his wife threw him a surprise party. I saw this little idea and thought it would be right up his ally. Um...hopefully none of you are offended :) We thought it was pretty funny, as did he. I just cut out some cardboard squares from a random box and used packing tape to put them all together (Josh did the taping part. He is such a good sport!) Then I hotglued scrapbook paper to it, hotglued some floral foam inside it (this is at the dollar store!), covered the floral foam with tissue paper and started sticking suckers in it. I wanted to make the writing part look a little nicer, but our printer isn't hooked up, and I can't find any of my scrapbooking supplies, so we made do.
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