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"AAAh, AAAAAh, AAAAAAAAh, AAAACHOOOOOO!!!!!!! Oh no, this is the last tissue. What am I going to do now that all I have is an empty tissue box?" Make an awesome kid's tissue box craft, that's what you can do with that wonderful box. It isn't empty at all, it is filled with dreams and possibilities! Or if not those, we can at least fill it with stuff. So don't you dare toss it in the trash when you can recycle it into a fun craft instead:-)
Here are tissue box crafts activities and instructions for kids to make beautiful crafts projects with empty tissue boxes. Here are Ideas for Cool Arts and Crafts Projects with Recycled Tissue Box Activities with with the following crafts ideas, instructions, patterns, and printables for Children, Teens, and Preschoolers
Tissue Paper Wooden Spoons Flower Gardens - These are so cute...make a flower bed by cutting slits in an old cardboard box...then push wooden spoons with tissue paper flowers on them into the slits.
Basic
Decorated Mailboxes - All
what you need: tissue
box, wrapping paper, Markers, crayons, stamps and stickers.
Bat
Box for Halloween - You
can replicate the same type of craft using craft foam by tracing the
template pieces onto foam and drawing on a few of the details.
Beanbag
Animal Beds - An
empty Kleenex box turns into a fun bed for your kids' beanbag stuffed
animal friends. Perfect for Beanie Babies.
Bear
Box for Valentine's Cards - Cute
bear box to hold cards.
Blue
Tissue Box Piggy Banks - This
creative bank lets kids count and create at the same time. Use it to
encourage math skills--and money smarts.
Box Guitar for Kids This
is an easy way to make a guitar using an old shoe box or tissue box,
rubber bands, scissors, a paper-towel tube, and a pencil.
Clink-Clank
Noisemakers - Sound
off with an easy-to-make clink-clank noisemaker.
Cute
Tissue Box Craft This dressed-up
tissue box helps teach your child to blow his nose.
Dinosaur
Feet - Make your very own dinosaur feet out
of tissue boxes!
Dog
Box for Valentine's Cards - Turn
a tissue box into this cute box to hold your valentine's cards.
Don't
Throw Away Your Tissue Boxes - Recycle Them - Have
you noticed all the pretty designs on tissue boxes in the stores
these days? I have and some of those printed beauties I just can't
bear to throw away. And we don't need to be adding something so
pretty to a landfill. So I reuse them in this way. I cut them up and
make ATC's or tags or even gift cards from the old boxes. Here's how
I do it.
Felted Recipe Box Craft - Make this useful gift from a recycled envelope box. Your mom can store all of her favorite recipe cards neatly in this pretty container. If she’s a real recipe hound, make this project from a tissue box or even a shoe box!
Frankenstein
Box for Halloween - A
tissue box make over for the Halloween.
Fun
Box Telephones - Transform
recycled boxes into a funky fun telephone. Kids can dial their way to
number mastery.
Ghostly
Gravestone : Making Ghosts with Arts and Crafts Activities - Tame
ghastly sneezes with this Ghostly Gravestone tissue box decoration.
House
of Tissue Terrors : Instructions for Making a Spooky Haunted House - Shutters
bang in the wind! Ghosts fly through the windows! Cats roam the
creaky floors! Turn a recycled tissue box into a Halloween happening.
Japanese
Tissue Box Actvities for Children Out of Tissue Box? Don’t
go shopping first before you check this cute Box.
Kai-lan
Tissue Box Trains - Roll
into the wonderland of Kai-lan and her friends on a Ni Hao, Kai-lan
train! Simply paint and glue the train design to tissue boxes, and
let your kids' imagination rumble down the tracks!
Monkey
Box for Valentine's Cards - Make
this cute monkey box out of an empty tissue box.
Mouse
Box for Valentine's Cards - Make
this cute little box to hold your valentine's cards or any other
little stuff.
Photo-Collage
Tissue Box Cover for Kids Make a sniffly friend
or relative feel better by sharing a smile -- or, better yet, a
tissue box covered with them. Using a craft punch makes simple
materials stand out and garners impressive results for even the
youngest artists.
Piggy
Bank Crafts - My
oldest daughter made this craft as a baby gift for her new, little
sister (and contributed the very first quarter). To this day, the
piggy bank still has a place of honour in sister’s room.
Pioneer
Day Crafts - Every
year Pioneer Day is celebrated on the 24th of July. Here is a very
simple craft that kids can make to celebrate Pioneer Day.
Pirate's
Treasure Chest Craft - You
will need an empty kleenex box, some black and yellow construction
paper, a printer, scissors, glue and something to colour with.
Plastic
Bag Holders - An
empty Kleenex box becomes a decorative Plastic Bag Holder with this
easy recycling craft.
Tickety
Tock Tissue Box Clocks - Make
the most of a recycled tissue box. Covered with our printable clock
face, it becomes a fun way to teach preschoolers how to tell time.
Tissue Box Easter Basket Craft for Kids - Pick out a pretty tissue box and turn it into an Easter basket. Thanks go to Melanie from Clinton, CT for submitting this idea.
Tissue
Box Guitars - Create
a guitar with your budding musician. Recycled items, such as a tissue
box and paper towel roll, get you started.
Tissue
Box Hanger - You can create a tissue box hanger with just a normal clothes
hanger within 5 minutes. This is very useful and frees up the space
on your desk as you can now hang your tissue box on the wall/window.
Tissue
Box Thanksgiving Turkey - - Looking for a cute craft project for Thanksgiving? Look no further
than this turkey, made from a tissue box!
Tissue
Box Traffic Light Crafts - Give
the kids the green light to have some fun!
Tissue
Treasure Boxes - Tissues
decorate the outside of this treasure box! This mosaic box makes a
unique gift—or place to store your stuff.
Uncle
Sam Box for Games, Wishes or Candy - The
Uncle Sam box is great for putting in clues for charades or treasure
hunts to play at a Fourth of July party. You can also put in prayers
or wishes for friends and family or for candies. A kleenex box can
also be used while still full of kleenex and set around as a
decorative touch during the Fourth of July season.
Valentine Character Mailbox Craft - Children in America celebrate by having parties and giving valentines to other students and their teachers. Usually each child decorates some kind of container, and the valentines are delivered and deposited in each "mailbox." You can help save landfill space and natural resources by recycling a discarded tissue box to make a valentine character container.
Vampire
Box for Halloween - You
can use it as a cards holder or for treats or even as a decorative
piece.
"What can I make out of those pretty decorated tissue boxes?" - Different ideas for a Tissue Box makeover.
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