Creative Kids: The Best Part About a Cardboard Box

The best part about a cardboard box……is playing with it after its been emptied!

Karlie quite proud of her box!

 Who ever said you needed to give kids a bunch of toys?  Half the time if they have a box they are content to play for hours.  Or is it just my kids?!  When the girls spot a particularly big box come through our front door they are almost more concerned with whether or not they will get to play with the box after it’s been emptied.  If it was up to them they would confiscate every box that came into the house for their box creations, however, I have informed them that only large boxes are available for creative redesign!  This is a great rainy day craft if you have a big box already hanging around!

How many monkeys can fit into this box?

This is just after we told them that they could play with the boxes for a few days before they get thrown away.  They are almost giddy with excitement as they come up with creative ideas on how to play with this box.  They have built houses, tunnels, forts, barns, castles, cars, rockets, and more out of recycled boxes.   I am positive that we would have house full of box creations if I didn’t get rid of them myself because the girls have so much fun playing.

I see someone peeking!

It is neat seeing them have fun and get creative over something as simple as a box.  They usually color, sometimes tape, reshape and make the box into a “treasured” item.  This is the planning phase of the box give it a few more days or a couple of weeks (if I can handle tripping over it for that long) and it will be all decked out!  Do you let your kids play with the big boxes and what fun creations have they made with the boxes?