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FAMILY ON A SOFA

JANUARY 1, 2024

Create a Building, Village, Town

This a project that can capture a children’s imagination for hours.

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Capture your child’s imagination

Create with Materials from your pantry.

This is one of those fabulous projects that keeps expanding and really captures the imagination of children.

Go to the pantry or recycling bin and pick out some boxes, any kind will do: cereal boxes, cracker boxes, oatmeal containers. Using a marker decide where you want doors and windows and draw them on the boxes. With an adults help, cut them out. Save the cut-out pieces to be used as shutters, balconies, bridges and more. Use the tape to add color, patterns or for constructing roof peaks or other design elements.

Materials:

  • Empty boxes from the recycling bin or pantry…cereal boxes, cracker boxes, oatmeal containers….anything

  • Tape, any kind works….masking, scotch, and for a more decorative effect colored tape or washi

  • scissors

  • marker

  • Elmers glue

  • corks

  • cardboard tubes

Heather Exley