Toys That Require Imagination . . . Cardboard
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Kids are naturally wired to play and imagine. But when we (I’m guilty of this myself) give them tons of toys that do everything, they don’t need to imagine anything. So give your kids a cardboard challenge – to find the hidden objects in the boxes like Michelangelo did with blocks of granite. The boxes require imagination. They won’t do anything without it.
Cardboard!
It’s NOT a box, but it might be . . .
ticket booth
airplane
television
marble run (Zoobles run)
cardboard guitar
Read the Not a Box picture book by Antoinette Portis for more inspiration!
And check out these fun ideas for “Not a Box”! (Click on the photo to go to the sites.)
So save your cardboard boxes and makes something Not a Box-ish! I wonder what you’ll make?
I like the guitar, oven, and ticket booth. My mom tells me that when I was a baby, boxes were my favorite toy. 🙂
Our daughter (7 years old) loves to make “rooms” out of boxes. She takes different sized (mostly shoe) boxes and makes one a bathroom, one a kitchen, bedroom ect. She stacks them or pushes them against the wall for her Barbie house. She even “wallpapered” a bedroom using pretty stationary. It keeps her entertained for hours. She has the Barbie Dream house, but it goes untouched.
I think that this is such a cute post. I love the cardboard guitar!
Very cool ideas! My kids love this book. Not A Stick is also a fun read.
Recently, my kiddos found some boxes and had a blast! Makes me so happy when they are creating… you can just hear and see the pure joy of it. A box is not a box .. it is an airplane, Sponge Bob pants, and a mail truck!! 🙂
ps. I’m so guilty of way too many toys. Thanks for the reminder- need to scale down. The house is overwhelmed.
Jen