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November 13, 2007
The virtues of a cardboard box
There's this cardboard box we've had for four years or so, that some of our dining room chairs came in. Shortly after we got it, I made it into a little house for Ethan - I cut a door, a window, and drew things on it, like some flowers. Jeff cut a little moon window and a star window too. He enjoyed that, and then it languished upstairs for a few years. About a year ago we brought it down again, and it became a spaceship, perfect for missions to Jupiter and Venus.
It's starting to get a little ragged, as it saw some use at Ethan's 5th birthday party, resulting in the window being torn off and the whole thing being slightly squished.
Linna enjoys going in there, too, as have Adrian, and Mika. The other day all the stuffed animals got shoved in through the window, a joint effort by Ethan and Linna.
Then yesterday, Ethan was reading one of Jeff's Calvin and Hobbes books while Kaya tried to get Linna to nap. As a result, he decided to turn the box into a transmogrifier. He cut out a blue arrow, asked me for help attaching it with a push-pin, and then wrote all the different options available: snake, Ethan, elephant, tiger, dinosaur, alien, lungfish, and bee.
Posted by ktingey at November 13, 2007 09:48 AM