The box that keeps on giving - the many games to be played with a big box

At the beginning of this year I made Curious George a play house out of my mother in-laws chest freezer box. Then we started renovating and the house was flat packed because we had no space for it. Since then it has had many lives and revivals.

It was a station at CG's 2nd birthday party and the kids had a ball playing in it.

Then it got left at my aunts house and it got rained on. When we eventually got it home I thought it was beyond repair. It went into the garage and I forgot about it. This week I was looking for ways to encourage CG to play in the garden (he still doesn't choose to play their even though the builders are gone) and I found it again. So I hauled it out along with the brown box tape and set about trying to resurrect it. It wasn't easy and I used alot of box tape but CG was so excited by it that it was worth it.

The next day we fetched the post and we spent almost half and hour sending CG post (all the junk mail we had gotten) through his post slot. He absolutely loved this game and we stayed outside until it was quite cold and then Jelly Bean woke up for a feed so we went inside.

 Finally today I gave CG a set of paints and he painted his house. He loved this and spent over an hour decorating his house.

For now the box is holding together and is living outside (its winter and there's no rain) so who knows what game we'll come up with tomorrow. The only limit is our imagination and the boxes structural integrity.