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Fun With Boxes: Cardboard Arts and Crafts For The Little Ones

Cardboard is the single-biggest component of solid, municipal waste across the entire world. This alone makes it extremely important to recycle cardboard, whether it is on an individual scale at home or on a bigger scale in the form of an industrial level. It’s important that even kids start learning how to recycle cardboard as early as possible.

Even though recycling can be seen as a duty or a chore, kids can use cardboard in a fun way by making things out of it. The following is a super comprehensive guide about cardboard arts and crafts for kids.

Resources for Kids

Resources For Teachers

  • Cardboard Arts and Crafts Resource Page: Resource page that provides teachers with all manner of arts and crafts projects that use cardboard.
  • Sandals from Cardboard: From the Disney website come instructions on making sandals from cardboard, which teachers can use in an arts and crafts project in class.
  • Ideas: Webpage that features ideas on what teachers can use cardboard for in class, including for pets or costumes.
  • Incubator Project: Suggestion for teachers on how to use cardboard in making an incubator for eggs.
  • Cardboard Castle: Lesson plan for teachers that features the use of cardboard in having students design their own castle.
  • Cardboard Projects Tome: Book that teachers can use to get ideas on how things that are sometimes thrown away—like cardboard—can be reused for arts and crafts projects.
  • Cardboard Projects for Environmentalists: Resource page that provides several ideas on how teachers can use cardboard in environmentally friendly arts and crafts projects.
  • Thanksgiving Cardboard Projects: Ideas for teachers on how they can use cardboard in Thanksgiving projects for their students.
  • Thanksgiving Place Card Holders: Webpage that explains how kids can make Thanksgiving place card holders, a useful activity that teachers can tie into the Thanksgiving holiday.
  • Toilet Paper Turkey: Easy cardboard craft project that features a toilet paper roll as the basis for creating a makeshift turkey, which, again, teachers can tie into the holiday for a lesson.
  • Thanksgiving Day Mayflower: Teachers can build a lesson around having their students make this easy Thanksgiving Day craft.
  • Recycled Cardboard Project: Project that involves the use of recycled cardboard in order to make a Thanksgiving Day turkey.
  • Native American Craft Idea: Webpage that features instructions for a Native American craft project that makes use of cardboard paper towel tubes.FOR PARENTS
  • Frame for Special Occasions: Instructions on how parents can supervise their kids in making an odds and ends frame that can be used for occasions like Father’s Day.
  • Home Shadow Puppet Activity: From Scholastic comes instructions on how to build a shadow puppet stage out of cardboard, for use in the home.
  • Halloween Costume Ideas: Ideas for kids’ costumes for Halloween make use of cardboard, which should give parents a lot to work with.
  • Cardboard Book: Book that features many project ideas that incorporate cardboard in some way, shape or form.
  • Make-it-with-Cardboard Book: Another book that can give parents ideas on what to make with their kids, using cardboard.
  • Cardboard Box Fun: Ideas for parents on how to incorporate cardboard boxes as arts and crafts projects for their kids.
  • Cardboard Box Table: Building a table from old cardboard, a project that parents can use to get closer to their kids.
  • Cardboard Castle Procedure: Procedure for cardboard castle construction that features a step-by-step layout, which parents can use in a joint project with their kids.
  • Turkey Plant Pole: Webpage that features instructions on how parents and kids can make a turkey plant pole out of corrugated cardboard.
  • List of Cardboard Crafts: Webpage that features a list of cardboard crafts that parents can do with their kids.
  • Crafts for Children Book: Book that features a myriad of arts and crafts-related ideas that parents can take to their kids.
  • Crafts Resource Webpage: Webpage that features a lot of cardboard-based arts and crafts for parents to do with their kids.
  • Cardboard Projects for Children: In-depth list of cardboard projects for children that parents will also find fun.

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