Sweetpea has a little ride on toy that she loves to play with. It has a little compartment in the front and lately she stuffs it with her drawings and "delivers the mail". I saw this cute mailbox craft idea at No Time for Flashcards and thought she would enjoy it.
First we found a box that was the perfect size. I remember when I received this amazing and sweet gift from Sheri at Earth Mama Angel Baby that I knew this box would come in handy for a craft some day. (more on what was inside soon, one of these days when I'm a little more coherent)
I cut a slot in the lid and we used the box to measure the size of brown wrapping paper we needed to cover our mailbox.
Once we had the size about right there was much coloring and sticker application.
We then carefully wrapped the box in the paper and wrapped the lid as well.
Are you as fascinated with the process as Sugar Plum was?
Turned out our paper wasn't quite wide enough to wrap all the way around the box. Oops - there is a definite "back" to this mailbox. Interestingly enough I took pictures of this entire process and forgot to take a good picture of the finished product...
Here Sweetpea is "delivering" mail from the little compartment in her ride on toy to the mail box.
And now it's time to ride off into the sunset!
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3 comments:
Very cute! And I'm sure Sugar Plum found it exciting too...ha ha!
Oh how fun! I love it... I should have done that myself, but I found a mailbox in the Target $1 section and ummm we use that now. We need to do more crafts. My favorite part though -- that she was in her pjs making it :)
Cute idea..looks like she had a lot of fun!
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