Shoebox Mansion
I love a expert collaborative art project. This shoebox mansion might be one of my favorites! It'southward the kind of project that can span days, and even weeks. Children can keep adding to the rooms and and then somewhen they tin can use the construction in their imaginary play. And the best part is that is costs naught! We fabricated this completely with recycled materials.
Last week, on the final solar day of camp, I went to cranium and nerveless a agglomeration of shoeboxes and small cardboard boxes. I moved the table out of the fine art space, pushing it and the couches all the style over across the room, and dumped the boxes onto the floor. The kids came in and saw this new, open space and all the boxes and were instantly curious and animated. I told them that nosotros were going to create some sort of home and to start stacking them upwardly confronting the wall. In no fourth dimension at all they had the boxes assembled into a construction and were fix to decorate.
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Supplies needed for a shoebox mansion:
~ Shoeboxes or small cardboard boxes (cut off lids and tops)
~ This box cutter saves me
~ I used a low-temp glue gun to attach the boxes, and then taped the top row to the wall
Suggested materials to decorate the mansion:
(I didn't buy anything, I just put out materials from our shelves – use whatever y'all take!)
~ Cardboard (we have several containers filled with leftover pieces)
~ Colored paper, patterned newspaper, onetime fine art
~ Washi record or colored tape
~ Sticker shapes
~ Craft sticks (jumbo and regular)
~ Tape, scissors, gum
~ Googly optics
~ Markers, black sharpies, paint sticks or creamy crayons
How to put the mansion together:
1. The building of the mansion happened very apace. I didn't have time to take whatsoever "in-progress" photos. The kids chose the biggest boxes and put them on the bottom, and then just stacked the rest on height. It wasn't until after they stepped back that they decided to call information technology a mansion – which was a bang-up catalyst for decorating the rooms.
2. After the boxes were stacked, I went in with a glue gun and stuck them all together. So I used some clear packing tape to tape the top row to the wall.
iii. Let the kids decorate. We began by wallpapering the rooms, and then they merely made furniture and people on their own.
This footling straw guy was made by a five-year old. I love the minimalist rug and bed behind him.
The was a very fancy bed which became the standard bed that all the girls had to brand.
This little girl made her sleeping room very unique, with playdough pizza on the table and a cord of art. I call up her working hard to get the table to stand. At first she had just two legs, but and so realized it needed some other leg in order to stand up. I honey the problem-solving that happens during these open-ended projects. At that place are and so many opportunities to build and learn and communicate.
This was the playroom, with a true cat on a shelf.
My personal favorite, the sewing room!
They were busy for a good hour and a one-half, until parents came to selection up. I wish we had made this cardboard mansion in the get-go of the calendar week and so they could have worked on it every day! I think I will exit it up for my next session and see if the new group will choice upwards where they left off.
If you lot want more cardboard-making ideas, go to my Pinterest lath called Cardboard Creations. So much cool stuff!
xo, Bar
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