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What Would You Do With It? Wednesday - Kleenex Boxes

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It is still Wednesday.... which means, I'm still on time!!!!
This week's featured item = Kleenex Boxes/Tissue Boxes

I don't have any great ideas that I have used personally for this one, but I sure have a lot of boxes hanging around.... So, I've been scouring the web looking for some great ideas. Here are a few that I found:

Aren't these cars adorable! I found this idea over at Simple As That. I know I have quite a few little ones who will absolutely love this project!


If you are going to make some cars, then you might as well continue the projects with this great traffic light that I found over at Parents Connect

I love this toy phone made from a couple of boxes! I know my little ones are constantly pretending to call people! I found this over at firstpalette.

Last week, there was a great link up for using baby food jars/containers. There were some GREAT entries over there. After some suggestions from Michelle over at This and that about kids.... I have opened all of the linkys for at least a year. So please take some time and visit the older posts if you have great ideas to share! I have also added a feedburner account. (I'm still new to some of this, and if it needs tweaking, please let me know!!!)

Anyway, it was hard to pick just one to feature from last week... but here it is:

When you visit this link, you'll have to use a translator, unless of course, you are fluent in Swedish! Choosing this one is sort of cheating, because it is not one idea, but a compilation of them! Thanks to Maria over at Forskoleburken.

On to this week's link up! Kleenex/Tissue Boxes- It's your turn!

Do you have a great idea or post that you can share using kleenex/tissue boxes? If so, please join in linking up!

Here are the rules:

1) The post MUST use Kleenex/Tissue Boxes (or a similar sized cardboard box)

2) The post MUST be family friendly.

There are no other requirements. If you would like, I would love if you linked back to his linky party, but it is not required. I would hope that you will investigate the links shared and visit some of the other blogs, but I'm not imposing any "blog hop/linky" rules. Please, if you do find great ideas and photos... Give credit where credit is due :).

If you have been featured and feel inclined, my featured button is available to grab from the sidebar.

Next week, I will feature my favorite link up and I'll be posting about plastic Crystal Light Containers! Hopefully, I'll be on time!





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Ticia said…
I don't have pictures of this, but we used to play a sight word game, and one of the cards said "achoo." then you had to sneeze and put your cards back in the box if you got that. My students LOVED that game.
February 9, 2011 at 11:45 PM
Lesley @ early play said…
I also don't have a photo but we painted them deep blue with yellow stars and stuffed them with chiffon scarves for the babies to pull out.
November 15, 2011 at 9:38 PM
free standing toilet paper holder said…
I'm going to have to share this with my husband:)
March 10, 2012 at 2:56 AM
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