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This was fun. Why paint one cardboard box when you can paint about 15 of them all riveted together with makedo? This fortress should have been more spectacular, but it and our entire cardboard stash was rained on the day before. Sad! Shoring up a damp wilted cardboard fortress with more soft cardboard doesn’t work so well. But it did help. The broom holding up the center helped more. Embarrassing, but practical.
The girls really did love it. I put out tempera paint in pie pans, then water color spray bottles, and paper + masking tape. They painted and argued and painted, and worked on learning to spray paint their names. I felt like I was educating the next generation of taggers. One day cardboard buildings & spray bottles, the next underpasses and spray paint.
What did you do with all of your holiday cardboard?
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Add Yours →FUN!! This reminds me of things that I did with my sisters when we were young, and thing that my 3 girls did when they were growing up! Looking forward to sharing these fun time with my little granddaughter when she’s a little older!
Building cardboard is so much fun! You should read ikatbag.com, she makes fabulous things out of cardboard!
Fabulous!!!
I’m ashamed to say, I recycled our Christmas cardboard this year. Too cold for it to be outside, and not feeling brave enough to build another massive indoor structure. Hopefully I’ll do better next Christmas!
I do still have one box hiding behind the living room couch =)
It is hard to build cardboard indoors, because my children feel like it is now one of their toys, and thus never to be recycled… This fort was in our living room, but then we transferred it outside and it got rained on. Now it can be recycled!