{"id":1349,"date":"2016-09-04T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T07:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2016-09-02T15:29:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T13:29:01","slug":"back-to-school-recycled-toys-from-small-cardboard-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/back-to-school-recycled-toys-from-small-cardboard-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to school: Recycled toys from small cardboard boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mums and dads, there\u2019s not long left until the start of the school year 2016-2017, and undoubtedly for many of you, the kids will find it hard getting back into the old routine: classes, books, early mornings and studying. After all that summer fun, it\u2019s time to get your skates on. To make all of this a bit less difficult, we bring you some handicrafts for when your kids go back to school. Recycled toys using our cardboard boxes.
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\nHave fun with your kids by decorating boxes and turning them into fantastic toys.<\/strong>
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\nGoing back to school requires lots and lots of organisation, but we shouldn\u2019t forget that, above all else, we want children to have fun while they\u2019re learning. We\u2019ll show you some ideas from Facil\u00edsimo<\/a> that will help you to create your own family wall planner to keep everything organised.<\/p>\n

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All of these beautiful items are available in various styles!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And as long as we\u2019re getting ourselves organised, what about this original lost socks rack from Oui Oui<\/a>? I\u2019ve got no idea how it happens, but we always end up losing them.<\/p>\n

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Now that we\u2019re all organised, are you ready to have fun with our recycled toys?
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\nToy number one: Who is it?<\/strong>, a face building game involving blocks. A simple idea, but one that will keep your kids entertained for hours on end.
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\nMade using our elongated box (reference 4003S)<\/a><\/strong>. Each side of the box has a different part of a face on it, so that the little ones can have a fun time putting together with faces and creating a variety of different characters.
\nCustomise the different parts of the face as you please! We came up with this:<\/p>\n

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Have you seen the hilarious result? Who\u2019s who? They\u2019ll have a great time!<\/p>\n

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Now onto toy number 2: The Fish<\/strong>. A lovely story told using our matchboxes. You\u2019ll find it very touching!
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\nWhat will you need? Nothing more than our matchbox (reference 2385)<\/a><\/strong>, some paint and some used matches. First of all, let\u2019s paint the picture that we want onto the little closed box. We\u2019ve drawn a fish (without his tail).
\nLook how cool the drawing turns out! Let your imagination run free!<\/p>\n

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The next step will be to put the boxes together in the middle to form the fish\u2019s tail.<\/p>\n

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The result is fantastic!<\/p>\n

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These are some brilliant ideas for arts and crafts gifts to enjoy or to give as a present to children, don\u2019t you think?
\nNumber 3: Building little houses. The littlest kids will enjoy building with blocks made using our square box (reference 4001)<\/a><\/strong>. They\u2019ll be able to make the tallest buildings!
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\nDecorate the little boxes to look like the walls of a building and marvel at the end result.
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And the last but by no means least of our recycled toys: our Brum-Brum Circuit<\/strong>! A circuit made from our Box tray with handles (reference 2211)<\/a><\/strong>. All you\u2019ll need is a wax crayon or a white marker to draw a beautiful landscape on the box with some highways or roads included.<\/p>\n

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\nIn just a few minutes, you\u2019ll be having fun with this wonderful car and train track!<\/p>\n

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\nFour fantastic arts and crafts items you can enjoy with the little ones, building the very best recycled toys. They\u2019ll have a blast!
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\nAnd if they love colouring, you can enjoy decorating the 3-piece printed cardboard box kit for colouring in<\/a><\/strong>. The perfect box for children\u2019s parties.
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\nAll hands on deck family! These ideas make heading back to school quite a bit easier \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Mums and dads, there\u2019s not long left until the start of the school year 2016-2017, and undoubtedly for many of you, the kids will find it hard getting back into the old routine: classes, books, early mornings and studying. After all that summer fun, it\u2019s time to get your skates on. To make all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[284,283],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfpackaging.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}