If you are like me you have taken advantage of the great deals you can get online with coupon codes, and the honey app, and you probably find yourself with some cardboard boxes in full supply this season. Even if you haven't ordered online cardboard is a surplus situation in daily life, when you empty those cereal boxes, and cracker boxes, or whatever else everything comes with some cardboard doesn't it? 

I am a big fan of recycling what I can, and I love crafting with the grandbaby. She is going to be 4 in January so she can do a few different things, and this craft idea was perfect in so many ways. It helped us decorate our tree, and the ornaments we made together I think makes it even more special. It recycled those cardboard boxes, and it gave us an outlet for those scraps of wrapping paper you really don't know what to do with, except throw away. 

The only thing we actually spent money on for this craft was some raffia, but I had that on hand from another project so even that was a non-expense as pertains to this craft project.

Everything we used was on hand, and most was recycled.

Here is our supply list

This project is versatile.. I had some amazon boxes that packages have been shipped to me in, but this could be done just as easily with recycled cards, cereal boxes, eggo boxes, whatever you have on hand. Instead of the rafia, you could use ribbon from gifts, minature christmas bows, crochet yarn, or whatever you have around.. You could even curl ribbons from a sales paper if you wanted.. In place of bailing twice which we used for hainging the ornaments, you could use sewing thread, crochet yarn, ribbon, Heck if you want to you can draw your own wrapping paper if no scrap paper is available..

This was the perfect craft to do with the almost 4 year old grandbaby, she was big enough to tear the tape from the dispenser and stick it on the wrapping paper when i folded it, and big enough to cut the ends on the raffia after I tied the bows.

This craft was quick and kept her engaged, it wasn't something where she had to wait a long time for her part of the craft.. I cut the squares of cardboard, and the wrapping paper to the size we needed before hand and so she was fully engaged the whole time.

When we were all done she got to hang them on the tree, and she is very proud of the ornaments she made. I think we will go on a nature walk today too and see waht else we can find to make our tree magnificent with.. Tomorrow I think we will be breaking out the glitter and glue.. Fun Fun Fun....