Post Holiday Crafts
Monday, January 2, 2012 at 4:12PM The week before Christmas meant our UPS guy was hard at work, there were days when it looked like Amazon.com exploded on our front porch. Shopping online is way easier for me then going to a brick and mortar store because I am with my children 24/7, it's hard to sneak anything past a 2 year old. As I started to unpack all of these cardboard boxes, some sizeable, I thought there must be something we can do with these in lieu of recycling. Most of us remember playing in boxes when we were children, just plain cardboard boxes were pretty awesome. I wanted that for Coraline, but in the interest of going over the top for my kid we took it a bit further.
So, on Christmas Eve, instead of sitting around doing nothing or baking cookies (because I had already made so many the week before) or watching Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer again....we built a play house.
* I took these pictures with my phone, so they aren't the best.
The great thing about having a 2 year old is that she doesn't care what it looks like, as long as it is fun and functional. So, we went over the top with fun colors. The house itself is made of 2 huge boxes and several smaller ones for the roof. I covered a large part of the house in leftover Christmas wrapping paper (stripes) and the rest is covered with colored duct tape, which is super awesome. I hung a strand of led Christmas lights in the house so it wasn't super dark. I might make her curtains and possibly do some more work inside, neither of which Coraline cares one bit about. The entire house cost approximately $10 in duct tape to make...plus the hundreds of dollars worth of Christmas gifts that came in the boxes :)
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