What to do with bored children: Put them in a big old box!

yeah, childrens love to do. last time i saw 2 children playing in a TV box. Its so much fun laughing with them so sweeeeeeeeeet. Probably good idea to have fun on both sides.

A cardboard box is the world's best babysitter! Always has been! Throw in some toliet paper rolls, and a few crayons and you got it made! Also, tupperware is a favorite. I used to have a drawer at the bottom and I"d fill it up with plastics. Boy the towers and houses and things that were made. Plus they learned to count and add and about shapes and sizes. Tupperware - very educational and fuN!

sometimes it just takes the simplest things to amuse kids during the summer. my 11 year old and i still like to blow old fashioned bubbles and we have a lot of fun doing that!

A big card board box was always great fun back in the day. It's like having your fort preassembled. We used to take the low furniture like foot rests and the such and throw blankets over the top and make a huge or at least what we thought was huge fort. The bigger the fort the better but an important part of the fort was always that adults couldn't get it so we had some time alone. I think this is the main thing because if you think about it children have VERY little time that they aren't with an adult. I suppose sleep would be one exception to that at a certain age.

That's the way to do it. I remember being eight and spending many hours in huge boxes. I had a blast, lol. There's so much a kid can do with a box. My friends and I took 'trips' in one. We pretended like we were driving around and stuff. That's the coolest present an adult can give a child, lol.

a creative imagination is probably the best toy any child (or adult for that matter) could ever have. Sadly, I feel that we are not encouraged to develop and use it because so much 'entertainment' is pre-programmed now.

I am a mom of 4 ages ranging from 4yrs to 13yrs and I agree with you 1oo%. Give them a box or 2 to play with and they couldent be happier. it amazes me how many toys are out there to perk imagination when all we really have to do is get a cardboard box and let them go. Even giving them crayons or markers with the box adds even more fun and imagination it is not funny. I would rather invest in a few years supply of cardboard boxes of diffrent sizes than toys any day.

Isn't it funny how sometimes you can pay an arm and a leg for some type of expensive toy, and then the child gets more fun out of the box. LOL I think it's great that they could find interaction with each other and enjoy the big old box that you had. Sometimes I wished I could be so easily entertained. Then again, who has time to be bored in today's world. If we aren't working on the house or working at work, we're probably working on the computer. Hope you have a very enjoyable day! And a great holiday!

Why let one big box have all the fun? Leave the kids with lots of smaller boxes and see if any new forts or landmarks pop up around the home. :P

It never ceases to amaze me how kids can take absolutely anything no matter how inconsequential and turn it into a toy or a game. When I am in the classroom I barely sit a piece of paper on a desk in front of a child and they are instantly twirling it around or playing with it in some other way. On the one hand I find it great that they can entertain themselves so easily but on the other I find it distressing that they don't know when to stop playing.