My twin nieces turned THREE this week!
I decided to go with a "simple" gift this year.
"I'll get them a huge cardboard box!" I said. "Oh, ya know... I'll just cut out a door and a window or 2 and call it good."
Well... I may or may not have gone wonderfully overboard. . . . .
I think I had way more fun making this than they're even going to have playing in it! Everything I used, I already had lying around the house, so making this was basically free.
First I cut out windows and doors (with a knife, yikes!) and reinforced all of the edges with duct tape.
I covered the box inside & out with white banner paper and bordered the windows and doors with Trader Joe's grocery bags.
I covered the door with baby blue poster board and added some flowers to the windows (from scrapbook paper I had) and a wreath to the door (cut out of old clothes).
The roof I made from two pieces of foam board. I layed them flat and duct taped them down the middle on the inside so they would easily bend. To hold the roof up I duct taped two small pieces of extra foam board to the center (it's amazing what duct tape can do.) The shingles are cut out rows of a cardboard box and connected with hot glue. (After this project, I've been finding hot glue strings everywhere!)
And, of course, I added a pink "F" and purple "V" for Felicity & Viviana!
This project took me about 4 full days, but it was worth every second.
"Knock Knock! Anybody home?!"
