Everyone has those childhood memories that just stick with you for a lifetime. Simple outside play are some of our best memories that us Aunts laugh about anytime we think about our childhood. Getting messy in dirt, playing with sticks, and cardboard on a hill are just a few of the simple ways that we played as kids. Recently we brought a little bit of simple outdoor fun to this childhood must-do activity with our own kids.
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Make your own Cardboard Car:
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Cardboard and a hill are ingredients for instant outdoor fun. Anytime we have spare cardboard in our house, the kids immediately ask to take it to the hill in our backyard. Recently we had a big old sheet of cardboard and a few small boxes ready for the recycle bin. Before any recycling happened, we had to play!
We grabbed up a few pieces of sidewalk chalk and start decorating the cardboard boxes.
Little Guy needed a lot of buttons on his “race car”. Drawing with the chalk on cardboard is a GREAT way to work on handwriting and drawing skills. The texture of chalk on cardboard is resistive and so requires a bit more strength to motor plan and execute the formation of shapes and letters. Little Guy practiced his circle formation in a fun way, and didn’t realize he was actually practicing pencil control.
Now to work on that grasp of his 😉
Baby Girl was really into this. Anything that big brother likes, she likes. Plus, cardboard cars are just FUN! Of course, her buttons and steering wheel had to be “girl colors”. Her request.
We made numbers, headlights, and wheels on the outside of our cardboard cars. Soon we were ready to drive!
We had to check for all functioning parts of the cars.
We took our cars to the hill and put down a big sheet of cardboard. Usually, the kids love to slide down the hill on their bottoms. The cardboard makes them slide down and is a great slide. With the cardboard cars, they SAILED! Check out the action here.
These two had races until the cars fell apart!
It was SUCH a fun way to play outside and re-use some cardboard! Have you ever played with cardboard on a hill? Let us know on our Facebook page.
