Our Craft Container, as seen on Rogers Daytime TV, is guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment, fun and creativity. You’ll get many hours of quiet, we guarantee it
Craft Containers hold an assortment of supplies your kids can use to make anything they can imagine, and the things they can imagine are usually things you would never think up yourself. Having a box of goodies that your child can just dig into whenever boredom sets in is a great way to inspire creative thinking and get your kids occupying themselves. Keep their container well stocked and it will provide more fun than will any gizmo with lights and batteries.
 Creating the Craft Container is a project in itself that you can do with your children. For the box you will need:
- any ordinary box with a lid on it. The lid is important. An open box with flaps on the top doesn’t work so well. Make sure it is big enough to accommodate a large variety of different sized items that you will be filling it with.
- wrapping paper, newspaper, felt or fabric scraps to cover the box
- spray glue or white glue.
- 2 lengths of string or rope for the two handles.
Take time to cover the entire outside of the box, and lid with wrapping paper, newsprint or fabric. When your box is covered, decorate it with cut-outs of felt, glue on sequins or anything else you can imagine. Paint on your child’s name and make it personal.
For the handles I used an old gift bag, took off the handles and used the bag as a template for the holes in the ends of the box which I drilled with a screwdriver. Thread the handles through the 2 holes and tie ends with a big enough knot to prevent them pulling through the holes.
Filling it up. Now your box is ready, you will want to fill it up with all kinds of goodies that you can find around the house or in a dollar store. Let your children’s imaginations soar as they add their own ideas for its ingredients. Some great ideas for your box are:
- Buttons
- Beads
- Felt
- Pompoms
- Pipe cleaners
- Artificial flowers
- Drinking straws
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- Coloured craft paper
- Wooden cut outs
- Play Dough (see recipe below)
- Feathers
- Markers
- Paint
- Pencils
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- Crayons
- Sequins
- Elastic bands
- Tape
- Glue sticks
- White glue
- Glue gun (for older kids)
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To get your child started, try these ideas:
Handy Lilies: With a pencil, draw around your child’s hand onto coloured craft paper. Cut out the shape, roll each paper finger over the pencil to create a curl. Wind the lily around a pipe cleaner or drinking straw and attach with tape. You can decorate your Lily with sparkles or sequins and tape cut-out paper leaves to the stem. Make a whole bunch and put them in your own home-crafted vase.
Vase: Take a cardboard tube, a toilet roll tube is good, wrap it in tissue, gift wrap or decorate it with paint, glue on sequins and buttons, and whatever else you like. Take a lump of play dough, flatten it with your hand and push the decorated cardboard tube into the play dough. Arrange a bouquet of Handy Lilies in your vase.
Silly Mask: Use cut out felt and string or elastic to make masks your child can tie around his head, decorate with feathers, sequins, etc.
Wall Hanging: Starting with a square of felt, have your child create a picture by gluing on shapes and smaller objects, then attach a string to two ends of the top to hang it on the wall.
Pompom Animals: See how many different animals your child can create using pom poms and pipe cleaners. Googly eyes give your animals character.
RECIPE for 3-cup Playdough: In a saucepan mix 1 cup flour, 1 cup salt and 1 cup water. Cook gently till thick and leaving the sides of the pan. When cool enough to handle, knead gently and break into four pieces. Show your child how to knead the dough, adding small drops of red, green, yellow and blue food colouring to each piece
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