Cardboard Creations: 50 Kids’ Crafts with Recycled Materials

Cardboard Creations: 50 Kids' Crafts with Recycled Materials

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Imagine your children crafting their own toys, games, and play structures from things you’d otherwise throw away!

Cardboard Creations: 50 Kids’ Crafts with Recycled Materials is a beautifully illustrated, 192-page guide that helps families turn cardboard into magic. In this book, your kids will be inspired to build everything from life-sized castles and rocket ships to pinball machines, shadow theaters, and miniature furniture.

You’ll also gain insight into the fundamentals of cardboard crafting: mastering tricks like bending, layering, scoring, and reinforcing, and picking the right type of cardboard for each project.

The projects are grouped for accessibility and creativity, including grand designs like a “Rocket,” “Castle Cubby,” “Ice Cream Cart,” and “Mini Monster Truck,” as well as smaller delights like “Butterfly Wings,” “Tool Belt,” “Pinball Machine,” “Tabletop Soccer,” and the intricately designed “Cardboard Labyrinth.”

Throughout the book, the author shares her tips on sourcing and preparing cardboard (whether from mailing boxes, cereal cartons, paper towel tubes, etc.), safe cutting techniques, and clever structural tricks to make creations sturdy and beautiful.

This book is the perfect fit for homeschooling families: it teaches creativity, problem-solving, and ecological awareness through real hands-on making. It encourages kids to imagine, design, prototype, test, adapt—and then enjoy their creations. Let your recycling pile become the foundation of wondrous play and learning.