All They Need Is A Cardboard Box
During my childhood, my friends and I eagerly awaited the day when a neighbor would get a new refrigerator. We’d pounce on the discarded box like jaguars, planning out a creative use for the giant structure.
Sometimes it would turn into a school bus, truck or other vehicle. Other times, a playhouse or a jail. Being the bossy one, I was usually the jailor, and not the jailee. Or we’d break the box up and use the large flat pieces as backdrops for the plays we held on our front porch.
So many uses!
Well, kids can’t have JUST a plain old cardboard box anymore, now can they? They start to ask where the DVD player is installed on it or whether it comes with a talking door. I kid..but only a little.
A company called Box Creations takes the plain old box and, while it doesn’t add a DVD player or talking door, it does jazz it up a little to make it fun but still creative for kids.
The princess carriage, shown above, comes with cardboard lanterns, a sunroof (what princess doesn’t have a sunroof in their carriage?), and swinging doors. The image of the carriage and its detailing is pre-printed on the shaped box. It also comes with markers, so kids can destroy, er, decorate, as they see fit. The carriage is large enough to hold 2-3 kids, but you know as well as I do that 6 kids will pack themselves into this puppy.
The pirate ship is also cute.
Each of the Box Creations products run $39.99. I have no idea how this thing gets shipped to you if you order one off of their website. I’m assuming there is some assembly required.
So if you live out in the middle of nowhere, and refrigerator boxes are hard to come by, you may want to check out Box Creations.
