This photo proves that spending huge amounts of money on Christmas presents is a waste of time. The two expensive presents bought for Helen by mum and dad have remained largely untouched for the past two weeks. This cardboard box, meanwhile, has been turned into a space rocket.
Helen loves her space rocket. You can’t see it, but on the inside there’s a computer screen and even a storage facility for keeping sausages and ecky ecky fruit, which is popular with aliens (apparently).
I love it when Helen does this kind of thing. With just a tiny bit of inspiration she can be so imaginative. This box arrived at the house with a delivery and almost as soon as it was emptied she was explaining how she wanted to cut holes in it “like a space rocket”.
To give her some inspiration we watched a YouTube video of the Apollo 11 space mission take off. Having heard one of the Apollo 11 astronauts say the rocket shook while taking off, it was my job to shake Helen’s space craft every time she pretended she was blasting off into space.
Needless to say, teh space rocket hasn’t left the living room since this item was created about a week ago. As for her presents, I couldn’t even tell you where they were.
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And what a cool space rocket it is. I love that they have so much imagination. Brilliant idea having the storage facility too
Love this photo and the story behind it. She looks so happy in her space rocket 🙂
Great photo. I can’t wait for mine to be old enough to play like this (at the moment she eats anything cardboard!) I hope you had fun making it too. Love the details on the inside.
Kids and boxes go together like cheese and crackers!
I once made my eldest a tardis out of a fridge box and he spent hours playing in it!
Cardboard boxes are the best!
In my house they usually become trains, and his toy boxes the carriages, (after he’s emptied the toys all over the living room floor of course).
Once the inevitable breakage happens, they then get flattened out and become a canvas.
Just remember, cardboard and socks don’t play well together when you’re running around the living room.
Love this. Some of my girls’ happiest times have been in cardboard boxes… Wait, that sounds odd, doesn’t it?! 🙂
This is such a great shot #MySundayPhoto x
What a cool idea! Love it when then kids spend their time in a creative way rather than starring at TV and Gadgets! #MySundayPhoto
Nice photo – particularly like the blood detailing on the bottom section as I assume she’d collided with an alien on her travels? #mysundayphoto
Yep its the same in our household. Boxes (big & small) are transformed into something more fun and they toy that they carry are somewhere =P #MySundayPhoto
This just proves how little kids care about the material things in life and the imagination is the key play thing, if only we could still do that!
What a cool rocket! She looks really pleased with herself.
Cardboard boxes are just the best, my 9yo gets hours of entertainment out of them.
What a fantastic rocket! Boxes are such fun x
My kids prefer boxes to their toys. I might aswell give them to charity. I was the same as a kid though so cant talk. Boxes are great fun.
It does look like an awesome rocket. Aly always tells me she wants to visit the moon
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A child’s imagination and a cardboard box can create the best toys ever!
Love the cardboard box space rocket and she looks so happy in it. Children’s imaginations are so wonderful.
Excellent space rocket! We have had many a rocket/car/boat in our living room 🙂
great picture and story behind it too. My son has had hours of fun with a box made into a postbox. Simple!
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What a lovely photo. Cardboard boxes still create the best imaginative toys 🙂
Great rocket and proves once again that card board boxes are just the best things to play with
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I love this photo. For me, this is what childhood is all about. Simple, imaginative and just sheer silly at times. Brilliant!
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Thanks Tracey, I agree! Helen has the most amazing imagination.