Thinking Outside the Box with Corrugated Boxes

These days children's playrooms world over are saturated not with the simple toys of generations past, but with high tech gizmos and gadgets many adults would struggle to comprehend. Classic toys, and perhaps the imagination they inspired, it would seem are lost on the next generation. This pessimistic line of thinking might be persuasive unless of course you've been to the birthday party of a toddler lately. If so you might find that things haven't changed much at all from yesteryear. Seemingly without fail, the most popular present is not the one with the largest price tag, but instead the one that came in the largest box or rather the box itself. Corrugated boxes continue to be an endless source of imaginative play time for children as they have since their invention in the 19th Century. Under supervision these cardboard creations become forts, slides, sleds, hiding places and surprise packages delivered to unwitting grandparents in the next room. The possibilities are endless. Continue reading →