Boxes

It is amazing what fun a box brings.

Last year Jaden and I spent hours making one into a home for his plush pet hamster, Nibbles. It had an upstairs with a slide for going down. We used paper towel rolls and light bulb containers for added fun.

We even made furniture. Play dough was contstructed into a couch, rug, wreath, and grand piano; dried and later painted.

The wreath hung outside Nibbles door with red yarn for garland strung outside, the rug was drawn up to the couch next to the grand piano. My contact container was his feeding bowl. A thimble set on the table for a vase.

Yesterday I had to throw it away. A year of fun had come down to a shabby looking box and we needed room for the other boxes that he uses. (One for an airstrip for planes to take off and another for random stabbing with a make shift wolverine claw.)

It was hard to take it out into the frigid temperatures and stuff into a cold garbage can. But nice to get the "clutter" out of the way to set up holiday decorations. Can't wait to see what boxes Santa brings us this year. Means we will have to find extra space for all the toys or figure out what this boy did in David Shannon's book. Too cute.