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Here's a fun STEM challenge - combine cardboard boxes with Hot Wheels track to make a really awesome ball track!  Elementary kids will enjoy this building challenge, and preschoolers will love it too, if someone older helps build the track. Owen and I had a great time transforming some cardboard boxes into this track. We started with one good sized box and some hot glue. I cut all the flaps off the box first with a utility knife (adult job!). Then I cut smaller pieces to make the ramps in.. Cardboard Box Play Ideas, Cardboard Construction For Kids, Diy Hamster Maze Cardboard, Easy Cardboard Box Fort, Indoor Cardboard Play Structure, Cardboard Boxes Kids, Stem Challenge, Diy Cardboard Toys, Cardboard Crafts Kids

Here's a fun STEM challenge - combine cardboard boxes with Hot Wheels track to make a really awesome ball track! Elementary kids will enjoy this building challenge, and preschoolers will love it too, if someone older helps build the track. Owen and I had a great time transforming some cardboard boxes into this track. We started with one good sized box and some hot glue. I cut all the flaps off the box first with a utility knife (adult job!). Then I cut smaller pieces to make the ramps in..

DIY Cardboard Box Activities for Kids

Have a lot of extra cardboard boxes around the house? Whether you've just moved or have a lot of empty Amazon boxes (like me)... here are our favorite DIY Cardboard Box Activities for Kids! So easy, so fun, and budget-friendly, too!

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cardboard projects to make at home

Check out this collection of cardboard projects that are easily reproducible at home with common household materials including games, puzzles, toys, costumes, and even a playhouse. #Instructables #upcycle #reuse #home #activity #kids #children

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cardboard play house made to look like a dollhouse

This DIY playhouse is simple and uses boxes and other items that you probably already have laying around your home. We’ll show you how to build a cardboard playhouse with your kids that they can decorate and customize any way they like!

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many boxes are stacked on top of each other

"Cardboard City". My kids made houses, stores and businesses that showcased their interests! We had all the materials (boxes, paint, paper, wire, sticks, glue) to make shutters, doors, roofs, windows. GREAT multi-kid project for Art Show. Ages 5-10.

several pieces of cardboard sitting on top of a wooden table

Written by: Hannah Kimmel We’re continuing our upcycling series with a new project for you: A few weeks ago I came across a post on Instagram about making cardboard houses for your kids. The post was by herding_the_hos and I was instantly taken by the charming design. It was relatively simple in nature, but it was quite clever the way the pieces fit together. The houses could be configured in many different ways for multiple playing strategies. The mom who designed it used sharpie to make…

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an arrangement of different shapes and sizes of cardboards on a white board with words attached to it

Materials As much as possible I try to use recyclable materials for construction art lessons. I source these from Recreate or ask the children to bring things in from home. Recyclable materials Bottles Caps Cardboard boxes (cereal/shoeboxes etc.) Wrapping paper Scrap paper Containers (yoghurt pots/egg cartons) Other materials Tin foil Scissors Foam sheets Stickers Crepe paper Pipe

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there is a large pile of toys on the floor

Earlier this month, I spent a week at Goshen Elementary, in Prospect, Kentucky, helping third, fourth, and fifth grade art students create a cardboard city, inspired by the work of Annalise Rees. Rees is an Australian artist who looks at a cardboard box and sees, "...delightful banality and boringness, common to all, the magical gateway into

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Makedo Project Ideas, Makedo Creations, How To Build With Cardboard, Cardboard Creations For Kids, Makedo Projects, Makedo Ideas, Cardboard Construction For Kids, Makedo Cardboard Ideas, Cardboard Building

Makedo is a simple to use, open-ended system of tools for creative cardboard construction. Build imaginative and useful creations from upcycled (repurposed) everyday cardboard. Makedo comes to life in collaborative creative environments such as classrooms, maker spaces, museums and of course homes.

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