Get Creative with Cardboard Box Costumes

Although it may not look like much, a regular brown cardboard box makes an ideal blank slate for this free form, child-directed arts and crafts activity in which your child will create a fanciful costume out of just a box, a few art supplies and craft materials, and her imagination. She'll immerse herself in the artistic process as she takes complete creative control over the costume's design. For extra fun, invite some of her friends over for a costume-making party, and put on a play when you're done.

What You Need:

• Cardboard box large enough to fit over your child's body
• Scissors
• Markers
• Construction paper
• Assorted decorative materials for embellishing the costume such as fabric, ribbon, lace, confetti, glitter, beads, buttons, or feathers