On a rainy day or sick day, I love to curl up with Annabelle and read books in bed. Last week during an especially icky patch of rainy days, we read Kit Allen’s board book Galoshes which inspired me (and Annabelle) to build this nifty sailboat out of an empty milk carton. To create our sailboat, we followed these instructions from Create-Kids-Crafts.com.
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About 20 minutes later, our milk carton sailboat set sail in our bathtub. Sadly, the mast and sail could not endure rough waters (from a very nasty storm made by one feisty toddler); fortunately, the milk carton hull can survive almost anything–from large waves and storms to ship wrecks and sinking. Oh, and this boat sails beautifully too.
Creating toys from trash has been a lot of fun and has me brainstorming new ways to reinvent “stuff” from egg cartons to broken balloons. Another great side effect is that being creative beats boredom, lethargy, and relieves stress for me. I am happy to have stumbled upon these recycled art projects. More to come!
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This is so fun! I love the recycled boat…
I am lovin’ your talking trash series. So fun! This boat would be great for my guys.
I was actually thinking of building or crafting a makeshift birdhouse sometime soon, especially since they are wonderful for the birds when the cold weather sets in. Perhaps we’ll try the jug bird feeders and build a wooden one too. Are you planning to put out bird feeders this winter?
I’ve seen bird-feeders make out of plastic 2-liter bottles, and some composed of old milk cartons. I bet there are some tutorials online for those!