Playing with cardboard boxes and stuff

[Megawitch]

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I save empty boxes from cereal, teabags, everything, toilet roll tubes, yoghurt pots etc, to make things with my grandson he's 4. We also use them as goods in the shop, I put newlabels on some and make them into other goods.

We've made spaceships, castles, pictures, a pirate chest one time with black paint and duct tape.

[stockportyears]

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Train of thought. Not only did Action Man spend time in prison, BUT The Tomorrow People had a story where 2 of them were drugged with some suspended animation drug called 'Sinatral' and kept lying in long perspex boxes. So Action Man was also drugged with Sinatral and had to lie in a Jaffa Cake box, but it wasn't quite long enough so his feet stuck out of the bottom.

[Trickyvee]

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Dad got some huge polythene sheets from work once and they made a fantastic water slide in the garden with the hose on.

My friend had a lot off stuff in her garden like one of those swing/shuggy shoe double things and a slide. We used to make an assault course and try to get across the garden without touching the ground by using those and patio chairs, buckets, bricks and anything else lying around.

[branny]

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My Grandad was an Ambulanceman and I used to use boxes of bandages from his kit to make blocks of flats that some poor unfortunate would fall off and have to be picked up by my Matchbox Mercedes Ambulance.

[Paulos]

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Sleeping bags for sliding down the stairs in, we also used an old cot mattress

I also used to slide down the stairs on a mattress, I also used to lay 2 mattresses down the stairs so they were just about completely covered and just chuck myself down them!

[AmethystWitch]

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My mum's clothes maid tuned on it's side which made a tent like shape, then covered with a sheet! Brilliant fun!!! lol

[Megawitch]

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My mum's clothes maid tuned on it's side which made a tent like shape, then covered with a sheet! Brilliant fun!!! lol

My little grandson does that with mine now!

[Trickyvee]

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My dad often came back with stuff from work that I'd end up playing with. One of my favourite things was a big industrial magnet taken out of a machine. It was really heavy and strong. I once held it up to our telly and it always had a dark patch on the screen after that. I also had some steel ballbearings also from stripped-down machines. They were great fun with the magnet.

[Brer Bunny]

Me and my cousin got hold of some plastic pipe, a lemonade bottle and a cork. By putting the pipe through the centre of the cork and then shoving the cork in the top of the bottle (half filled with water) we had a ready made rocket primed. Using two bricks, we pointed the bottom into the sky.
We attached the other end of the pipe to a footpump and pumped it until the cork was forced out and the rocket flew off. We even got it over the roof of his two storey house!

[Richard1978]

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I used to have a bootle rocket kit that would work just like that.

Great fun, until I leant it to a friend & he lost part of it.

[branny]

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I had my dad cut a small, rectangular hole in an Anchor butter box from the supermarket, then I stuck little slithers of masking tape across to make bars for a cell to put poor old Action Man in. He usually got out within the day, though, despite his regular use of firearms and daggers, maybe he had a good solicitor.

I was a bit kinder to my Action man, I made him his own pad out of a crisp box, complete with devan bed and futuristic wall mounted tv. Who have thought?

[Trickyvee]

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I was a bit kinder to my Action man, I made him his own pad out of a crisp box, complete with devan bed and futuristic wall mounted tv. Who have thought?

I love it. Treating action man like it was 2011. My Sindy had to make do with a cardboard house although she had some very funky orange windows made out of a lucozade wrapper.

[willpurry]

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My brother and I used to recreate the release of Han Solo from Return of the Jedi. We put an ersatz playmobil man of mine in the bottom of a toy post box, filled it with ink coloured water, froze it and held it under the hot tap.

[Sculpher]

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The spring on 1974 saw the arrival of my Father's new desk - and the enormous box it came in (filling the entire floorspace of our living room). Several industrious hours with scissors (yes - we got a grown-up to help us), that wide sellotape that frustrates, and a variety of Magic Markers, brass paper fasteners and cushions (not cousins) and we had HMS Betty (in honour of Frank Spencer's long-suffering spouse) - The north half was my sister's Battleship, replete with radar, gun turret (a Rank-Xerox paper box with wooden-spoon barrels) and a surprising number of (drawn-on) framed pictures of horses. The South half (ar rather quarter - as I was 2 years younger) was a submarine - with (hand operated) rotating glow-in-the-dark sonar screen, control yoke, bunks, missile and torpedo hatches, conning tower, opening windows and door (I know - I was 5!) and treasure box. It stayed there - filling the room - until the inexorable arrival of the festive season (and a variety of relatives) meant that it was dismantled and moved to the (rather damp) sun-lounge at the back of the house - where it fell into a rapid decline and was eventually scuttled and it's remains fueled a succession of frosty New Years bonfires. But what a summer. Armed with a mini Cornish Pasty watching re-runs of Thunderbirds from the comfort of your own Battleship/Submarine combo. Halcyon Days.

[tulip]

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Do you want a laugh?Its now called "junk modelling" if you make something with it.Or "loose parts" if you just play with it!!


tulip