Craft Round-up: Cardboard Boxes

Welcome back to another crafty round up here at BritMums! Woohoo how we love love, love crafts. Last month we hopefully delighted you with some lovely Christmas crafts to inspire you and the children to get crafty. This month, although Christmas is still around the corner, we are moving on to Cardboard Boxes! Not because we don’t love Christmas, believe me, we do…. And we could bore you to death with Christmas Crafts all day long… but because Christmas provides us with a great new crafting opportunity – the great Cardboard Box.

If you are just a little bit like me, there will a number of large boxes arriving at your house in the coming days. Some will have arrived already.. others will be unwrapped on Christmas day. But before you through that cardboard box as junk… STOP and think again. There are LOTS of lovely things that you can make out of the humble box.

Here are just some of the great ideas that BritMum Bloggers have come up with in the past!

 

Cardboard Box Car (love the paper plate details! Too cute)

Simple Cardboard Box House – doesn’t have to be snazzy or take ages to be cute AND fun!

Thomas Train – his face says it all!!

Listen to this Podcast “in praise of cardboard”!

Make a Guitar

Junk Modelling – so fun! Who will YOU create?

Fantastic Winter Wonderland (incl. Printable)

Love this set of Russian Dolls. Too cute!

Cute little “Back to School” Bus

Barbie Swimming Pool (so simple, so fun!)

Easy Pirate Ship (easier than you think!)

Shape Sorter – what a great idea!

Super clever Shoe Box constellation Maps

Cardboard box Weaving

Childmade Robot Costume (too cute!)

Small World Play

Need MORE ideas? Plenty to be found here:

 

20 Cardboard Box Ideas & 40 Cardboard box Ideas