9 July 2009
Making : Milk Carton Buildings
Category : Activities for kids, Arts & Crafts Permalink
Gee. I just checked. The last time I posted an ‘Arts and Craft’ post was way back in May!
Not that we stopped doing arts and crafts stuff at home, because we still do. But somehow I think there seems to have been so many other topics that I wrote about and I simply didn’t get around to sharing more about the crafting stuff we do.
Oh well. Anyway.
Here’s one quick-yet-great crafting idea that you can try and make!
Milk Carton Buildings!
What you need :
- Used milk cartons
- Coloured Paper
- Glue, scissors, crayons
What we did :
- Cut the milk carton (see top picture), leaving the top part a little longer than the bottom part
- Cover the sides with coloured paper (to create ‘different buildings’ use different coloured paper)
- Glue the ‘buildings’ to each other (see the picture above)
- Cut bits of different shapes and stick them on as windows, doors, etc
- Cut out the ‘doors’ so they can be opened and closed
- If the child can already write, let him/her name the kind of buildings they’ve just made
And THAT IS IT!
Anya created a house and a museum, while Vai … well, he’s just happy enough to have created buildings where he could drive his little toy cars in and out of the doors!
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Posted by Chris
10 July 2009 @ 8:47 am
Niiiiiiice! That was cute!
Posted by 4malmal
10 July 2009 @ 11:04 am
hey this is so simple! I love the idea
Rachel
http://www.4malmal.com
Posted by Asianmommy
10 July 2009 @ 12:07 pm
How totally cute!
Posted by siska
11 July 2009 @ 12:08 pm
pura pake packaging lain utk ekspor kali yah? Kok pura disini lain packagingnya. Tadinya gw pikir mgkn sgp jg ada pura sndr. Tp gw baca fresh australian milk
Posted by Nic
11 July 2009 @ 8:53 pm
Very cute houses! I like them cos they look so imperfect…so kiddy!
Posted by Joyce
12 July 2009 @ 11:39 am
Thanks for the simple yet great idea. I realised that I stopped doing art work with my kids since no 3 came. Will try this activity with 3 of them.
Posted by Gwen
13 July 2009 @ 10:28 am
I like this! One could make a whole town!!
Posted by Leonny
14 July 2009 @ 12:07 am
Chris :
Thanks uncle Chris
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4malmal:
I like how it’s so easy to make too!
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Asianmommy:
hehe … Thanks
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Siska :
Pura Milk here has chinese characters on the packaging, so my guess is that they dedicate a specific packaging for export purposes (works better for the Asian market, I guess)
Pura’s price is more expensive than the selling price in Australia though! (anyway, in general, milk prices here - regardless of their brand - are much higher anyway compared to the Australian milk prices)
I love its taste but I’d always wait till they’re on sale haha …
Posted by Leonny
14 July 2009 @ 12:12 am
Nic :
Till today they sit in our living room and Vai keeps taking them off our living room unit and plays with them!
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Joyce :
Hey … how nice that’ll be if you get to do these arts and crafts works with the 3 kids!
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Gwen :
Exactly! I love how you can continue to ‘add on’ to the existing ones and create your very own town!