Sometimes you need a little tropical beach in the middle of winter. This is a great use for leftover Christmas card boxes to help make your scene 3-D. We used sandpaper for the sand and blue paper for the ocean. I dug through some scrapbook paper and found some beachy stuff that E selected from, paper for the background, stickers, etc. We lined the box with some of the paper, glued a palm tree to the front then glued everything he wanted to stand-up to stiff cardboard (thank you recycling bin). Colouring pages also make great "scenes". Below you can see the how to for the stand up items, you can also see it doesn't have to be precise cutting, just a big enough piece to balance the image piece. Cut a small slit in each piece and slide them together so the bottoms are even.
This has been a pretty fun play set, beside the cutouts and set-up fun, we have also has a shark attack, a pirate raid and aliens land on our beach...
3 comments:
Seriously, my kids would so rent you for a day.
Seriously Kristin, you need to go through all your old posts and put all your ideas into a book called "What are we doing today Mom?" and sell it for big bucks.
We want to come to the beach! My favorite part, when the aliens land. THat is so BOY!!!! You are such a great mom!!!
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