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March 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Things to Do With Boxes

We love cardboard boxes, versatile, imaginative, sustainable, frugal, fun & mostly free…. boxes can become anything from dens to space rockets, camper vans to lost worlds…
Here’s a selection of some of the fun we have had with boxes…

We made an ice cream van…

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Russian dolls…

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A woodland obstacle course..

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A Minecraft themed tea…

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A toddlers prehistoric lost world…

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A train..

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A car..

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A magicians box..

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We even road tripped in a VW..

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We made a rocket & headed into space..

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We made Michael Angelos Sistine chapel…

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And a yellow submarine…

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We headed to the Antarctic..

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And went yo the fun fair..

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We made dens with fairy lights..

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Interior designed..

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Recreated story books.

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Made hedgehog houses..

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We even paid each other compliments..

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We made toddler art boxes for the little ones to sit in and draw til their hearts were content..

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And at the end of the day some of us just snuggled down in the comfort of their own box…

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