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Making : Milk Carton Buildings

9 July 20099 Comments

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!

9 Comments »

  • Leonny says:

    Nic :

    Till today they sit in our living room and Vai keeps taking them off our living room unit and plays with them! ๐Ÿ™‚

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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! ๐Ÿ™‚

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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! ๐Ÿ™‚

  • Leonny says:

    Chris :

    Thanks uncle Chris ๐Ÿ™‚

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    4malmal:

    I like how it’s so easy to make too!

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    Asianmommy:

    hehe … Thanks ๐Ÿ™‚

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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 …

  • Gwen says:

    I like this! One could make a whole town!! ๐Ÿ˜‰

  • Joyce says:

    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.

  • Nic says:

    Very cute houses! I like them cos they look so imperfect…so kiddy!

  • siska says:

    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

  • Asianmommy says:

    How totally cute!

  • 4malmal says:

    hey this is so simple! I love the idea ๐Ÿ™‚

    Rachel
    http://www.4malmal.com

  • Chris says:

    Niiiiiiice! That was cute!

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