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Appliance Box Mansion
August 20, 2008 | Filed in: 3-D, Activities, Outside, Sculpture

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Like I do every summer for the past 10 years or so, may have skipped a year or two in there,  I called our local appliance store and asked if they had many boxes in the recycling .  I folded all the seats down and loaded up my van with all the boxes they had-10.

After unloading them and trying to match up the bottom pieces to the  various size boxes we dragged them into place.  We stood them up and I poked holes through the boxes and pipecleanered them together.  Cutting doors and windows in some of the boxes.

Did I hear you say you wanted a tour…Sure!

the end of the hall

That’s the hall way.  First left is Molly’s room.

Molly's room

Second left is Ginger’s room.

take the next left

And of course there is a potty!!!

the potty

There are windows, doors and sky lights.

peek a boo

Tomorrow we will paint it!

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holy wow. Can we come over? That is fabulous fun! amazing as usual round here xo

By amy on 08.20.08 3:15 am | Permalink

Very cool! May have to steal that idea one day soon :)

By Erin on 08.20.08 3:36 am | Permalink

Oh! My! Wow! That is beyond awesome. How long does this last? Is it all mushy after one rain? Might have to try something like this, what a great idea!

By amanda on 08.20.08 4:10 am | Permalink

Cool! Have you heard of Mr McGroovy’s box rivets? They make this kind of project really easy and can be used again and again. They have a refrigerator box castle plan on the site too…
http://www.mrmcgroovys.com/t-plans-cardboard-castle.aspx

By Linds on 08.20.08 4:45 am | Permalink

It’s amazing that something as simple as discarded cardboard boxes can provide so much fun huh :-)

btw, my Xanga blog is no more. I’m now blogging at Blogger (link in my name)

By Carol on 08.20.08 7:36 am | Permalink

oops, forgot to change it

By Carol on 08.20.08 7:37 am | Permalink

Very cool! But where’s Jake’s room?

By Abby on 08.20.08 9:56 am | Permalink

You are so fun. I want you to be my mommy.

By Alissa on 08.20.08 12:09 pm | Permalink

i want to come over too! this is awesome awesomeness at its finest!

By maya on 08.20.08 12:36 pm | Permalink

Just wanted to add an amen to the chorus of “that is completely awesome”s. Wow!

By Tracy on 08.20.08 2:18 pm | Permalink

This is a FANTASTIC idea!! I am going to call the store next week… this would be a perfect activity for the last week of summer… my kids will LOVE it! Thanks for the inspiration. :-)

By Lisa Cohen on 08.22.08 11:47 am | Permalink

I am thinking I will have to do this when my darling granddaughter is a little older. You are such a cool mom.

By Laura on 08.23.08 3:19 am | Permalink

Oh, I am SO going to have to call my local appliance store. I NEVER thought of doing that!

By Deb on 09.11.08 12:35 am | Permalink

Love this idea! This post would be a perfect one to link up to “Twice the Fun Tuesday” at my site havingfunathomeblog.blogspot.com.

Twice the Fun is a weekly mr. linky about creative recycling that will start next Tuesday (Oct 14.) It would be great to see your post there!

By Having Fun at Home on 10.08.08 2:52 am | Permalink

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