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

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

• Cardboard Crafts Projects Page: Resource page that provides kids with a good many cardboard arts and crafts projects.
• Bird Supply Box: Instructions on how kids can make a bird supply box from the cardboard of milk cartons.
• Box Barn Instructions: Guide for kids on how they can make a box barn out of cardboard.
• Cardboard Bulletin Board: Instructions on how kids can make a bulletin board by using some cardboard as the foundation.
• Cardboard Dragon Instructions: Webpage that details how a class of kids built a cardboard dragon also provides the steps on how to recreate it.
• Egg Carton Cat Project: Webpage that gives instructions on how kids can make a cat by using some cardboard egg cartons.
• Boomerang: Webpage that contains directions on how kids can make a boomerang out of their favorite, cardboard cereal box.
• Making a Cardboard Castle: Cardboard castle project is detailed, including step-by-step instructions for kids to follow along with.
• Cardboard Castle Playhouse: Webpage for a cardboard castle playhouse that kids can paint and decorate as they see fit.
• Cardboard and Paper Projects Book: Book that is great for smaller children, which guides them on these crafts.
• Cardboard Recycling Project Ideas: Ideas on how to use cardboard and cardboard boxes into a variety of easy-to-use objects.

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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