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A Kid’s Imagination, Running Wild – Cardboard Creations

May 14, 2009 By Laura 5 Comments

{JM – 6 yrs.} has been a very busy boy in the past few weeks.  If you were following our blog here back in March, you may have caught the post titled Fly Him To The Moon, which was about a solar system {JM} made, and about how he is ALWAYS. MAKING. SOMETHING.  He is literally his own toy maker, with an imagination running wild.  We’re sharing some of his latest cardboard creations, and if you show your kids, maybe they’ll be inspired to recreate some of these, or come up with some ideas of their own!

An I-Pod

kid's cardboard creations ideas

This has got to be one of my all time favorites of his creations. I’m a music freak. He has SUCH a great imagination, that he has spent quite a bit of time, listening to his imaginary i-pod!  He has GREAT taste in music too.  He loaded his favorite songs. Check out his play list:

kid's cardboard creations ideas
In case you can’t read the songs, here they are:

  • Turkey in the Straw
  • Butterfly
  • Live Out Loud
  • Alleluia
  • Better Is One Day
  • Blessed Be Your Name

Materials around the house he used:

  • cardboard
  • paper
  • string
  • tape
  • marker and pen

(The ear pieces were made of balls of paper and tape.  Sounds comfy, huh?  But he didn’t mind it!)

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A Dog named Cooper, His Dog-House, and His Owner’s House

kid's cardboard creations ideas
Materials Used:

  • Owner’s House:  a cereal box, paints
  • Dog-House:  cardboard, spray paint, marker and tape
  • Cooper: egg carton (one of the separating peeks inside), marker and a paper tail
  • Cooper’s Bowl: cardboard,  marker and a white crayon for his bone

I thought his bowl was the cutest thing!

kid's cardboard creations ideas

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A Leprechaun Trap

(He saw this one in a Family Fun Magazine)

kid's cardboard creations ideas

Materials Used:

  • cardboard
  • tape
  • markers
  • cotton balls
  • animal cracker box (under the cotton balls)
  • wire clothes hangar
  • string
  • a wood dowel, painted white
  • A Readi-Whip cap (for the bucket)
  • rocks

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An Elephant Bank

kid's cardboard creations ideas

Materials Used:

  • Iced Tea Bottle
  • cardboard
  • paper towel tube
  • paint and markers
  • tape
  • White-Out (for eyes)

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An Umbrella

umbrella

kid's cardboard creations ideas

Materials Used:

  • several pieces of paper
  • tape
  • crayons
  • straws
  • paper towel tube
  • PVC drain trap

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*Keys

kid's cardboard creations ideas
Materials Used:

  • cardboard
  • markers
  • paper clip
  • Dicks Sporting Goods rewards card

*I have to say, as a Mama who would love for her babies to stay little forever, this is one creation that had me taking a few deep breathes.  Thank goodness these keys are only pretend for now. I’d miss him terribly!

Have any of your kids made a crazy craft with things around the house?  We’d love to hear about it!  It may just come in handy on the next rainy day!

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Filed Under: Crafts & Creations, Kids Arts and Crafts Tagged With: kids-arts-and-crafts, kids-cardboard-creation-ideas, kids-imagination, kids-make-with-cardboard

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