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Cardboard can truly be a great canvas. You can create anything you choose, and it is almost always readily available. You can model physics concepts, create representations of real items, and bring your imaginations to life.
Getting Started
You can use any cardboard and craft materials you find to create something out of cardboard. On this page are several images that display examples of the creative uses for cardboard. Here are some sites with other ideas to get started:
'Easy Cardboard Crafts for Adults' provides several ideas with links to tutorials for each example.
Though it extends outside of just cardboard, this Kid Arcade uses household items (including cardboard) to create several different games.
Cardboard fridge with 'groceries' made of felt
Resources
'5 Ways to Keep Kids Occupied With a Cardboard Box' includes examples of ways educators have incorporated cardboard creation into their classrooms.
This Cardboard Challenge presents a question to students and discusses the benefits of the project.
This article from We Are Teachers provides 25 examples of ways cardboard creations can be used to help students learn.
Caine's Arcade brought to life the beauty and possibility of nurturing children's creativity.
Cardboard train
Percy and Thomas train costumes
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