I save all kinds of "garbage" that I think might be useful in a craft someday, I think it's left over from my childhood days of hoarding toilet paper tubes for all my inventions, like radios and time travel machines. But under my kitchen sink was getting a little crazy and out of control, so when I got off work an hour early this last Friday, and somehow didn't have anywhere we needed to be... it was craft time!
I really didn't have a game plan when we started, I kind of made it up as we went. First I lined up all the egg cartons in a row, stacking the egg part on top of the lid part, tucking the little tab downward to form a tight fitting row.
Then I cut off the the closing part of the front carton.
And the lid of the last carton.
Then I got out the paints and we started giving our creation some color. We made up rules for a game as we painted, like red spaces are worth 100 points, dotted spaces are bomb spaces and you loose a turn, the brown space wins the game. By the time we were done painting my son had made up so many rules I had no idea how we were going to play... I couldn't keep track, and I don't think he could either!
After a short time the paint was dry and it was time to play! We gathered little balls from the toy room, designated a line to stand behind, and started taking turns tossing the balls into our new game. My sons rules grew as the game went on, and my daughter got frustrated at loosing her turn so many times (somehow she always landed on the "loose your turn" spaces), that the game quickly fizzled from being organized to being a free for all. The game evolved as the weekend went on, and was well worth the space spent saving those things.
