I don't know about you, but my daughter and I start to go a little stir crazy at this time of year. We try to get out as much as possible, but sometimes with these short, cold days we can't be out for long. I've been keeping my eye out for inexpensive do-it-yourself ways to have a little fun indoors. Here are some fun and budget-friendly cardboard creations that are sure to keep your little ones entertained during those final weeks of Winter:
Row One:
1. Coffee Shop: 45Wall Design
2. DIY Cardboard Playhouse via Apartment Therapy
3. Cardboard Creature: Space Tribe Candy on Etsy
4. Cardboard Animals: Milimbo
5. Shadow Puppets: Classic Play
Row Two:
6. Cardboard Washing Machine: Estefi Machado
7. Pizza Box Easel: Makedo
8. DIY Cardboard Playhouses: A Beautiful Mess
9. DIY Cardboard Dollhouse: Scandinavian Deko
10. Cardboard City: Camilla Engman
Row Three:
11. Cardboard Castle: Ann Wood
12. Cardboard Castle: Time of the Aquarius
13. Cardboard Gas Pump DIY: CraigsListDad
14. DIY Cardboard Doll Bed: Ambrosia Creative
15. Mailbox DIY: Ikat Bag
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Wonderful moments with cardboard in my childhood include my mom finding a fridge box on her morning walk and bringing it home so we could build a house out of it.
Inspired to grow my stockpile :) I love cardboard...
Nothing is better than a cardboard box! We had so many boxes after Christmas that we really went to town making things. The only problem was that my son would want to keep the new "toys" forever.
Here's the cardboard house I made that was inspired by one of the many modern playhouses I saw on AT:
http://momsdailyadventures.blogspot.com/2010/08/diy-cardboard-playhouse-tutorial.html
Oh my goodness! So charming. We've been thinking about making an indoor doggie house for our little canine. This is so inspiring. I think I know what I'm going to do now this weekend ;o)
Love Makedo! My son has their robot kit. Easy to use, open-ended kit with lots of room for creativity and imagination. Makes you look at recycle bin items in a whole new way!
reminds me of a project we did a couple years ago in design school - http://cansu.pe/project/play-spaces/ - cardboard and children, what a great combination for inspiration!