Children get so much fun out of empty cardboard boxes

With space as a premium at the place where I stay, its not possible to store cardboard boxes. So we generally sell them off but what you say is true...my son just loved to crawl in and hide in a particular cardboard box in which the TV came. IT was fun till it lasted, but he played so much with it that eventually it lost shape.

2 years ago at Christmas my mom and my 2 year old nephew were visiting. My refridgerator went out. I was almost horrible, mom realized it went out in the middle of the night and went and bought ice, all without waking us up until morning. She is great. Back to the story: we wnt and bought a new fridge (got a great deal) and we let my nephew play in the box. He put part of it in the living room and part in the kitchen under the table and he played in that box for almost the entire month they visited. He even would pull his blanket into it to take his naps there. That box saved my sanity that month. I love him but I do not have kids and going from no kids to a 2 year old is a huge jump. Now I try to have a big box for him when he visits, I ahve also found that large laundry baskets have the same effect, most of us have atleast one, so if you do not have a box let them play in those. The other cool thing he likes is to put sheets over the kitchen table to make a fort, now that he is 4 this is just as much fun and is roomyer.