Do you have a useful/busy box?

[Pandora]

You know, like on Playschool when they get out the useful box to make crafty things?

Do you have one?
How big is it?
What do you have in there?

I am thinking of putting on together for DS, so far all I have come up with to put in there are:

pipe cleaners
felt
scrap fabric
empty matchboxes (doutful on this one though)
egg cartons
recycled wrapping paper
cardboard tubes (i.e. from toilet paper rolls or glad wrap)


What else can I put in there?
Someone suggested the matchboxes to me but I'm scared that they'd still be dangerous?

[*Ang*]

I dont have an "organised" one as such, more like everything all over the place! You could also put in the following which are good for crafty activities:

Straws
Old cotton reels
Lengths of coloured wool/string
Glitter (in a shaker like a salt and pepper one is good as it limits the mess)
Play doh
Stickers (DD has always loved putting stickers on things)
Old shoe boxes
Cellophane

As for the matchboxes, I dont know truthfully.

Hope that helps.

[Pandora]

thanks! ooooh and congratulations! Love your ticker!

[DoubleK]

i have been thinking about this for krystal (maybe in a couple of months time tho)

empty boxes from the pantry (all sizes)
paddlepop sticks
old toilet rolls/paper towel rolls
cut outs from magazines (krystals loves any pics of animals or babies/kids - you could pre-cut or tear them out, so they can stick them down)
soft drink bottles

umm there is probably heaps of other stuff, i just cant think!

[*Ang*]

Another couple of things:

Cotton wool balls - different colours
Small pasta shapes/shells - good for glueing onto paper and card
Tissue boxes

[Rouge]

We have a few :S

I couldn't tell you to be honest they are both the 30 litre tubs, and they are our craft boxes and they have soooo much stuff in it LOL!

A fun thing to do though is to get a big cardboard box and decorate the outside

[megsgr]

For pictures to stick onto things i buy the 50c or $1 wrapping paper from the cheap stores and cut out the pictures off them They have some great animal pictures on them. Also when books get really old and tatty i cut the pictures out and put them in a box, good to make stick puppets with too.

[Lucy]

A fun thing to do though is to get a big cardboard box and decorate the outside

We have this........an old Huggies box, covered in potato print paper. It is looking a bit tatty, so I may employ Charlie to help make a new one!

I also have glue sticks in ours, & scraps of material.

And some of the tinsel from Christmas got added.

And I also have photocopies of photos of the kids that they like to stick and paste. (Olivia is into doing "scrappy pages, like Mummy does" LOL, can you tell I scrap too much. I have brainwashed her, LOL!)

Anything that I know I am not going to miss out of my scrapbooking supplies gets given over to the craft box.

[Pandora]

Wow thanks for all the ideas! This is heaps for me to get started with

[Lucy]

Remembered something else.........stamping........fromt he $2 shop you can get cheap inkpads and rubber stamps.......it is less messy than painting!

[DoubleK]

i just had another idea - cutting out pictures from catalogues for them to paste down (eg. pictures of toys they like, or even the grocery catalogues, i know Krystal loves to 'read' these, and she points out the products she recognises!)