A cereal box makes a great magazine organizer. Cut the top away and trim the sides at a 45-degree angle to about half way down the box. Cover with wallpaper or contact paper.
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Houses & Castles
Use a large cardboard box to make houses and/or castles for the children in your life. Cut windows and doors from the box. Decorate with paint, staple fabric to windows for curtains, place an old rug on the floor, use your imagination!
Indoor Sled
Punch two holes about 2 inches from top of a large cardboard box about 4-inches apart. Thread a piece of rope through each hole and tie a knot on the inside of the box to hold the rope in place. One child can sit in the box while another child or adult uses the rope to drag the box over a carpet, packed snow or wet grass. Caution: box will eventually fall apart when dragged over wet landscape.
Phonebook Window Cleaner
Here’s another great idea from Debbie Yates of Echo’s Voice. I love this idea because its a two-fer. This practice uses a recyclable item and saves you from using a chemical cleaner that would normally be used.
Instead of tossing out your outdated phone books use the pages to clean glass and mirrors. It used to be you could use newspapers, but they changed the ink and that is no longer the way to go. Now if you want a spotless window use sheets from the telephone book. There is something about the ink in the paper that makes it so you don’t even need to use Windex to end up with sparkling windows and mirrors.