Ocean In A Box
So Being the resourceful (read: green not cheap)
mother that I am,
I like to make my own version of cool toys
for my girls to play with.
I saw these really cool
My Sandbox Kits (10″x 10″)
I loved the ocean mermaid box
but they’re kind of small.
So, I decided to be the artsy
(read: clever, brilliant, and modest)
mama that I am and
make one at home
with stuff we already had.
I found an empty underbed storage box
in the garage and thought it would be a better size
(so both girls can play in it at the same time.)
Then the girls helped me collect assorted mermaids,
fish, sea shells (real and the mini macaroni kind),
polly pockets, and plastic mini trees
from the playroom menagerie
to populate our “underwater” world.
The only thing we had to buy at the store
were 2 small bags of new/clean turqoise aquarium gravel
(there was no way I was going to use sand in the house)
and 2 fake plastic aquarium plants/coral
from the fish section at WalMart.
The girls (and I must admit myself as well)
love playing
in their new ocean habitat.
You could even make your own coral and plants
out of Fimo or modeling clay with your kids.
It is so popular with my daughters
that I’m thinking about making them as gifts
for the umpteen million birthday parties
we’ll be attending in the coming school year.
How cool would that gift be?
Little do my daughters know
that I’m plotting to surprise them
this Christmas with a Winter Wonderland
made out of another under bed box
and dry rice “snow”
to be populated by some
penguins, polar bears,
a dogsled, an igloo,
and some eskimos!
Think about the possibilities:
Construction trucks with brown fish tank gravel,
mini horses with a stable and oatmeal ground cover,
space men and aliens on Moon Sand.
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