Recycled Mail Box
This was a spur of the moment activity. My son kept pretending to put a card into a kitchen cabinet saying "Into the mailbox." I jumped on this and am so glad I did. I say often that following your child's interests is key and if I had a video stream of my house today I could prove my point even better. My son played with this from the time we made it until bed time. He kissed it goodnight at nap and bedtime. If you have half as much fun as he did with it, I'll be happy.
- Gather your materials. You will need a rectangular box, some craft paper, markers, tape, scissors , envelopes, stickers and a piece of white paper.
- Start by cutting off one end of the box.
- Cut a slot ( make it wider than I did if you don't want to be saying "Try it the other way, turn it around" 300 times between frustrated 2 year old almost tantrums)
- Wrap the box like a present in the craft paper.
- Cut the paper where the slot it and tape it on the inside.
- Time to color, let your child go nuts. I just let him go for it.
- Make a sign (if your child can do this, have them do it!)
- Tape it on.
- Time to make the mail- I used blank envelopes. Have your child add addresses. If they can write letters, do that too. No matter what stage they are at have them add the address. If it's scribbles, cool. If it's a full address, that's great.
- Add a "stamp." We used stickers.
- Play! My son filled the mail box then declared " Delivery time!" knocked it over took the mail and delivered it around the house. Then repeated this many many times.
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My son did this, too!! Random! Here's a link to the post I did on my site, although I didn't include pictures because mine wasn't nearly as cute as yours!
http://dressesandmesses.wordpress.com/?s=post+office