An Indoor Play Activity
Cereal boxes make marvelous toy buildings. Build your own City and have hours of fun.
Materials Required:
- Empty food boxes
- Paper
- Decorating materials
- Safety scissors
Optional Materials:
- Felt
- Cotton
- Cups
- Clay
Instructions:
Cereal boxes (as well as any rectangular cardboard food boxes) make marvelous toy buildings.
Other “prefab” buildings reside in the refrigerator. Paper cream containers make for good houses, and milk cartons make ready buildings with sloping roofs.
To decorate the buildings, wrap the boxes in paper bags, construction paper, or unprinted newsprint.
Then draw windows, doors, and other features. You can also cut doors and windows, leaving a flap. (Be sure the cutting tools you provide your children with are appropriate for their age and skill levels, and always supervise any activity involving sharp objects.)
Your budding architects can become city planners by drawing streets and city blocks on a large piece of paper, then placing the food box buildings on the map. Help them become landscape architects, as well-make shrubs out of cotton, grass out of green felt, streetÂlights out of cotton swabs, and trees out of cups, clay, and unsharpened pencils.
Add a few toy cars, and your kids will be ready for a night on the town.
This Children’s Activity is sponsored by Zane Education – the home of online Visual Learning
