Fun crafts: a cardboard city

Children often love to do manual work, but we don't always have ideas to use materials that we have at home and that would come free if we apply a little imagination. We have already presented a lot of simple and creative proposals, in which, with very simple things we can achieve surprising results.

Today, through the page of the Recycling Association, which was born in 2005 with the aim of promoting creative recycling, I found a new proposal that I found wonderful. This is the work of the Ecuadorian artist Pablo Gamboa Santos who, with cardboard boxes that would end up in the trash, shows us how to make a city as complex as we want and that I have found adaptable for our children.

The boxes can be any size. We will paint and trim windows and doors. We can do one or many, without too much detail, but by joining them we can enjoy a small imaginative city full of game possibilities. We can also paint them and add more objects, such as antennas, trees or fences, we put the limit and the desire to collaborate with our children.

I am already collecting boxes to prepare our small town. Do you encourage?