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 I love playing with cardboard, and this space shuttle is one of our fanciest creations! I created it as part of The Lights Project at ikat bag, but wanted to share it with my readers here as well (with LiEr’s blessing!) LiEr sent me a string of ten LED lights from IKEA, which [...] This cardboard laptop with interchangeable screens was the hit present at Johnny’s fourth birthday party, easily eclipsing the talking bear. I can’t take any credit from it – it was made by my brother B – who, incidentally, has apparently been given credit for the gifts Mike and I gave Johnny as well! That’s [...] Cardboard first! Today I’m guest posting on one of my all-time favorite blogs, ikatbag! All about cardboard and lights! LiEr sent us a string of ten LED lights and asked what we could do with them. We made a light-up carboard space shuttle – and I’ve posted a full tutorial on her blog! Check [...] A few days ago, Johnny was asking for a robot “that can walk and talk.” Mike found some cardboard, cut it into a robot shape, and gave it eyes and a mouth. Then he and Johnny covered the entire thing in tin foil. Then they cut out a little boy robot. Such a simple [...] Mike made Johnny this astronaut helmet out of some cardboard that has been transformed into all sorts of things over the past week or two. A cardboard box with both the top and the bottom flaps open made a simple rocket ship. Proof that astronauts are still irresistible! I’m linking this post to [...] I’m linking this post to Kids Get Crafty at Red Ted Art and The Play Academy at NurtureStore.. [...] We made a cardboard washer/dryer a couple years ago, and Emma recently asked for a reincarnation of it. This is one of the easiest cardboard appliances to make – just take a box, turn it wrong-side out, and cut out most of a circle, leaving part of it attached as the door hinge. Then [...] Emma and Johnny wanted a house to play with their little animals in, so I took a cardboard box, cut off the corners of the end flaps, and taped the longer flaps to the now-diagonal end flaps to create a house shape (with an opening in the roof, for easier access for play). Then [...] Yesterday morning Emma came out looking like this: She had hung all of her doll clothes on hangers, and wanted to know where she could keep them. I pulled a box out of the garage, took it apart, and cut off a couple of flaps so that it looked like this: I [...] MATERIALS: Cardboard Box Packing Tape Pipe Cleaner Extra cardboard to make shelves I’ve wanted my kids to have a play fridge for a while, and I knew as soon as I saw this box that it would work perfectly. I turned the box wrong side out, cut out a door, and added a pipe [...] |
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