[–] Funkypurplekitty 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
My kids love boxes. They have done this once just colored inside it. One big box was used as a play house for a few years. My husband cut a door and a window in it.
Mostly they get used as rocket ships, boats, cars, and baby doll beds.
[–] ChapterJuni 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Boxes, rocks, sticks, mud, sand, and water are some of my favorites, the bugs that come on some of these are good for endless play and inquiry as well.
[–] Fragnostus 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I have played soooo much with boxes as a kid. Boxes, and rolls of paper (not toiletpaper, I'm talking rolls of normal paper, not sure what they were for, I just made gigantic drawings that went on and on and on). When we went to the supermarket I'd often ask whether we could go and take some extra boxes even though we didn't need them to carry our supplies. I used them among other things to make mazes for our kittens.
There's some really funny comics from Calvin and Hobbes about boxes, btw.
[–] OhBlindOne 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Wait, the child is a free toy or the child is playing with a free toy? I'm not entirely sure what's being implied here.
Edit: if it's the latter of the two (please god let it be the latter) then it's still not a free toy. Someone had to pay for that box and those markers.
[–] Funkypurplekitty 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Yes to needing to buy the markers. Often you can get boxes for free at the grocery store or you buy what was in the box and let the kids play with the box till it's destroyed.
[–] OhBlindOne 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
When I was a kid, we built pillow forts. 1v1 me bro. I'll out fort you.
I've seen your work. It's impressive, but not impressive enough.
[–] 9203993? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
We once got a huge pallet size box when we ordered new computers for out business it was huge, We cut a little door in one side and the kids and I painted it black, then added some glow stars. Once it dried they had their own little planterium. You took of the lid the stars "charged" then pop the lid back on they would lay in the box for ages looking at the starts or charging them with their little torches. We had that huge box for about a year before it was eventually destroyed.