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How much better can it get than a toy your kids will play with and love to pieces (probably literally) that costs you nothing? Kids and cardboard boxes were made for each other. Small boxes they sit in and pretend they're driving...big boxes become a secret hide out! Why not make this natural play thing look great and be more useful? Step1. Locate a box! You can call appliance stores, or visit new homes under construction and ask the superintendent to save you a box when his next appliances are installed. The best boxes are from stoves, washers, or dryers. A refrigerator box is also good but will need to be cut down.
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large enough for your children to fit through. Don't make it too
big....half the fun is it's "just their size"!
Step 3. Paint the outside of the box with any flat wall paint you have left over from projects around the home. Step 4. Draw any objects or features you want on the outside of your painted box. It can look like a building with windows and doors, or you can use the figures we have provided here for your kids to color on the outside of the box. If your not an artist simply print both pages of this article and use our figures to trace from. Your children will probably get many months of fun out of this one low cost item. You will find 6 different figures to print. One is on this page and 5 are on the next. Click the print button on your browser for each of these two pages.
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