A few ideas as to what you can do with empty cardboard boxes...
- Counter:
The counter can be used for a store/shop theme, post office or even a hospital party theme (kids love to play doctor-nurse)
- Aeroplane cockpit or space ships: Paint a large cardboard box in colour of choice or cover with coloured paper. Stick on a mass of knobs and dials from bottle tops, jars and tubes. Turn the box into a rocket or space ship by covering it completely with heavy duty foil.
- Car: Paint or cover the cardboard box, add paper plate wheels and paint a number plate on card, attach to the box. Use a sardine can key or any unused keys. Coloured tape makes good trim.
- Houses and buildings: Cardboard boxes of assorted shapes and sizes can represent almost any type of building, such as a house, garage, farm or castle. Heavy-duty foil can be used for the roofs of the buildings. Shoe boxes are especially useful as they can be stacked to make bricks or to build a multi-storey dollhouse. Pipe cleaners, plasticine and play dough are good for making people, animals, furniture and vehicles.
- Masks and animals: Empty egg box cartons are ideal to make masks by cutting the boxes into mask shapes. The cups of the egg boxes can be used for noses, beaks or even horns. Decorate with pieces of wool, feathers and paper shapes.The egg cups can easily be turned into worms, spiders, bees and many other animals.
When you plan a dressing up birthday party, the ideas for these structures made from cardboard will add to the fun of kids theme parties.
