Crafts for Kids

This project took a few old boxes (we used cereal bar boxes and kitchen roll inner tubes and one piece of thick cardboard from a box that had come through the post) and some paint and paper and was done with a two year old.

I cut the crenelations along the top of the boxes and tubes and also cut and bent in flaps at the base of the tubes to make them easier to stick. My niece then painted all the boxes brown and the base green. She then stuck on a gate/doorway of blue paper. Once the paint was reasonably dry, we put glue on the base of the largest box and stuck it to the base and then to the back side of the front box and base attaching that to the big one. More glue on the base flaps and the side of the tubes that was going against the main building. Although I helped to make sure there was enough glue on each one in the right areas, she was able to do this and then put them in place. I held them together and pressed in areas where contact needed to be a little heavier to ensure they would stay together.

Then with mixed pieces of yellow paper, she glued and stuck them on randomly to give a 'brick' look to the outside and also to make a path up to the entrance.

And for the result....