This is probably the indoor ‘cubby’ to beat all cubbies.
Be it school holidays, long weekends or rainy days, when there are long days ahead the kids look to you for entertainment and they expect you to deliver.
It would be nice to think my sons could decorate a cardboard treehouse as wonderfully as that one up there but I’m under no illusion they’re quite up to that skill level yet!
Picture this – a pop-up card that’s also a unique gift and you can grow it!
Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy making things with my kids but it’s the mess that puts me off. So this nifty set makes me very happy.
I would hate to spend large sums of cash on a doll’s house only to have it played with for a couple of weeks and then abandoned. So why not buy a cardboard one that can be put out for recycling once your kids have had their fun?
As I parent I know that the best presents for kids come in cardboard boxes… because they have so much fun playing with the box! Cardboard boxes provide endless opportunities for pint-sized imaginations and hours of entertainment. Give kids an assortment of boxes and a roll of sticky tape and they will come up with … [Read more.]
If you’re tired of ‘land-fill’ toys taking up valuable space in your home, you’re going to love the products from French company Carton Chic. We love them so much, we’ve featured them back in December ’07. Created in order to develop cutting edge, environmentally-friendly products, Carton Chic products are made using either recycled cardboard or … [Read more.]
It’s funny how a slight twist on a standard feature can lend a whole new expression – literally! Cardboard storage boxes from Japan’s Iremonya are happy, a bit glum, or indifferent to their contents. Clever positioning of the box handles creates a little collection of faces.
Quite like the Watanabe Carton Furniture we featured earlier this month, this 3D Puzzle Furniture set by Swedish designer Elin Basander Lundin is a one-of-a-kind piece of kiddie furniture that requires only your hands and imagination to put together. Arriving at your door in flatpack form, this intriguing furniture set is formed just like its name … [Read more.]
Here’s an exclusive preview of the new Puggy Castle and Rocket cardboard cubbies coming soon to Metro Mum. Enable your child to reach new heights of imagination as an astronaut in an intergalactic spacecraft or as a proactive princess defending her castle. They can decorate the recycled cardboard cubby with themed colour-in sticker packs … [Read more.]
Cardboard furniture for kids is not something I’d ever have thought of. But now that I have, it makes perfect sense, as what do kids absolutely adore? Cardboard boxes. My own daughter is obsessed with boxes and when one lands in our house, we have a very hard time getting her hands off it. She … [Read more.]
