How to Make your own Cardboard Crafts for Kids – City in a Box

If you’re looking for some easy craft ideas involving a cardboard box, have a look at one of our favorite cardboard crafts for kids.

How is the milk you buy being packed, in boxes or bottles? We’re buying milk that comes packed in cardboard boxes. And with 3 little milk drinkers in the house and a cafe late addict -yours truly – we end up consuming quite some milk and end up having quite some cardboard boxes lying around. I initially thought they’re too small and unpractical, so I’d just recycle them with the rest of the paper in the house. That was until the moment I got the idea to do some cardboard crafts for kids, and I thought to make something easy and fun: a city.

Our milk cardboard boxes look as on the pictures below: A bottom and two sides that are too crappy for any serious usage, but just great for our easy cardboard crafts for kids.

All you need for this easy easy craft with cardboard is a cardboard box, a pen and some imagination.  Unlike other cardboard crafts for kids here there are no drawing skills required even a 4 year old can do this.

This is what we did:

Step 1: Put  one of the sides down so that you can have more space to draw for the roads.
Step 2: Draw houses on the vertical sides and roads on the horizontal piece.
Step 3: Add some characters and cars.

And that’s it, you’re done! I told you it’s one of the easiest cardboard crafts for kids didn’t I? 🙂 

It was that easy to do, that Victora (4) did her own version of the town while I was drawing Lukas’s city.

Later on the kids decided to put the 2 cities together to get even more playing space. I connected some roads in between the 2 cardboard boxes and our big city was created. But like any big city, it was in need of traffic lights and some roads under constructions- as Victoria pointed out to me.

So armed with some colored pencils Victoria took care of the safety of the traffic in our miniature city, while Lukas was busy testing the roads and parking the cars. This is such a fun and easy craft idea and the kids played with their city for quite some time.

When they will loose interest in the play city, I will just put it out with the paper. Since our supply of milk cardboard boxes is kind of continuous, we’ll just make a new one when needed. It only takes a couple of minutes anyway.

So as a conclusion: this is a fun, fast to make, stimulating and on top an environmental friendly project.

Try this out, and if you do, leave us a message to say how it went or put a picture on our Facebook page.