Cardboard Boxes and children

competitionscafe

You can even buy ready made cardboard play houses now!
http://www.ecotopia.co.uk/index.php?cName=gifts-recycled-cardboard

(Of course Old Stylers will make their own, it's easy enough)

Jay-Jay_4

competitionscafe wrote:

You can even buy ready made cardboard play houses now!
http://www.ecotopia.co.uk/product_info.php?pName=cardboard-play-house&osCsid=

(Of course Old Stylers will make their own, it's easy enough)

LMAO... that's like the one I made for the cat :rotfl: (only mine was better!)

If I'd known then that it would be worth twenty two quid I'd have saved the flippin thing...... could've e-bayed it :rolleyes:



The things some folk'll buy!!!!

Sweet_Pea_2

My two DD's love boxes too, (and they are 9 + almost 7) large ones for turning into boats, houses etc, medium sized ones they turn into dolls houses, and cereal boxes they love to make things out of too, ie, car parks to go with the cardboard supermarket, (just draw a few lines for car parking spaces) fields to go with the toy farm (just colour or paint the cardboard green) masks, (just attach a bit of shearing elastic to keep it on) egg boxes, (crocodile puppets) in fact you can't move in our house for things they have made out of paper and card. No cardboard box ever makes it as far as the recycling box and I have resorted to hiding my sellotape because they love the stuff. My OH loves nothing better than constructing something wierd and wonderful for them out of a cardboard box.
Meanwhile all the expensive toys are languishing un-played-with in their bedrooms upstairs.

foreverskint

Not quite a cardboard box, but my two year old had lots of those plastic storage boxes to keep her toys tidy. Ha ha do they heck, she tips he toys out and uses the plastic boxes as dolls cots, doggy beds, boats cars, trains, anything but keep toys in:rotfl: . She likes cardboard boxes,but does get frustrated that they don't quite take the wear & tear like the plastic ones, and it usuall ends in tears.

It does make you wonder though why we do waste so much 'real' toys, when the boxes they come in/are store in seem to be so much more attractive. I mean why use her lovely wooden table and chair, when a couple of up-turned boxes are soo much better!
I don't bother with bath toys now as the bits she pinches from my kitchen, seem much more fun. Just before bath time theres a little naked toddler dashing through the house seeing what she can 'use' in the bath. Tonight it was tupperware and a pastry brush, along with a wooden spoon.
I've taken to buying pastry brushes two at a time, one for me and one for her!

Maybe for christmas we should by pass the pantomime and head for a tupperware party!!!

culpepper

Small boxes are lovely for making individual rooms for dolls house play.
When I was about 15,I used to make room 'settings' like interior designers do.All the furniture was made from rubbish.I used to borrow interior design books from the library for ideas.
Ikea do individal cardboard rooms for making your own dolls house.
My dad made me a marble game from a cardboard box.He stood it uside down and drew a half grinning face on it with the teeth at the bottom then cut out some of the teeth and wrote 'scores' above them.
When the kids were little and had friends in to play,they liked to gnab the bigger boxes(kept in the shed for the purpose) to play with .One little boy was not allowed to play with 'rubbish' at home so must have found our house quite liberating.

mysterymum

For my sons 8th birthday I got a large box and filled it with small boxes, cardboard tubes etc and a roll of sellotape. I wraped it up and put it with the other stuff I paid a fortune for...guess what he played with the longest,( and he still loves boxes at 12!!)

Frogling

Yep, my two little ones love cardboard boxes. Cars, boats, planes, and even a place to hide their lunch (I thought they'd eaten it all up like good girls: you can't wash gravy out of cardboard lol!)

Don't forget, if you get a big enough box you can get in it yourself and hide from the pressures of everyday life! That's what I do when my two toddlers go hyper - hide!

mad_auntie_alis

Well, speaking as a vintage mum with no money (spent it all on getting the little dear!) my dd (now 20!) was delighted with boxes for YEARS - but the one I remember best was keeping her quiet in the car with a milk powder tin, rectangular hole in the top, and headscarves(Oxfam refugees.. well washed).. tied magician fashion....once they were out she would play with them on her head, play peep bo with them over her face, look through the translucent ones, feel the different textures, and joy of joys, try to put them BACK in the tin again... the tidiness part didn't last through teenage, but she now studies costume design at Uni. And to think it all started with those scarves...
You never know what fruit your money saving may bring!

skylight

Boxes go back years!

I remember when my Mum spent months searching for my brother ALL the original Star Wars toys (damaged and lost since!). My parents spent a lot of money and he had every play toy/character you can imagine.

When me had made Robot outfits from the boxes and Dad was taking photos and playing too and laughing(and hadn't touched the Star Wars stuff) we couldn't understand why she was crying.......................

student100

Whenever this topic comes up at home I am frequently reminded of the time when I was a kid when I (quite deliberately) slept a night inside of a gigantic cardboard box from a new Vax vacuum cleaner...I have no idea now *why* but I'm sure it was fun at the time