Box worlds

I've been thinking about boxes again lots this week.

I wrote a guest post about turning boxes into new worlds for Claire at Life, Ninja Killer Cat and everything else.  It's a great way of making new toys for next to nothing and promoting literacy.  They can be robots, or cars...

We made the Dinoland above complete with dinosaur eggs.   My son took it to nursery for Show and Tell. I'm upping the Show and Tell stakes currently because it seems to be the only way to get him to skip into nursery, rather than clinging to my leg or trying to hide up my skirt.  Now nursery are going to make some too.

And B.D. (Before Dinoland)  the box was a robot, before that it had nappies in, and I blogged about how it saved a life for Unicef.

I am writing a story for a Save the Children book of bedtime stories.  It's a project started by Natalyia of Green Kiddie.  Boxes have crept in to that one too.  There's a fab line up of bloggers and their children contributing art and stories, and it will be around to buy for Christmas.  The twitter hashtag is #stcbook.  I hope you will consider buying one or two.

Any great ideas for boxes? Have a lovely weekend.

It's day 19 of Nablopomo, a post a day for November.