Monday, January 31

Cardboard Spaceship

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For a few years now, the girls have been using the kitchen stools as spaceships. I love it!

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But I’m sure you can imagine what happens these days when there are three girls and only two stools.

While trying to console/distract/talk reason to Left-out Lucy, I spied the box that our annual gift of oranges came in.  A few cuts, a few hot glue globs, and some odds-and-ends later, Lucy had this:

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Originally, I’d set the extra insert off to the side. But then it needed to be glued on to the back to allow for intergalactic personnel transport.

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The straps were made from some pajama packaging I kept. Wasn’t sure at the time why I was keeping them, but they’re just the thing for this ship; they even have a tiny section of elastic sewed in, so they have a little bit of give when the girls tug them on and off!

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The steering wheel is made from two yogurt container tops, an empty spool of thread, and a long screw that we screwed right into the cardboard.

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Along with giving me directions on what to do, the girls also added some things themselves. Lucy got right to work decorating the shuttle walls – my favorite part is the face “with hair” that she added at the front. And Sophie designed the “control panel” with various gauges and levers.

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So now we have a third spaceship.

But in solving one problem, I’ve created another – no ones wants to use the stools anymore…

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5 comments:

  1. Now I suppose those who were driving the bar stools are jealous?

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  2. That's awesome! Wow! Strangely, we used to pretend when we were sitting on the bar stools at Grandma's house that we were IN a spaceship (I imagined that the seats in a spaceship started at the bottom of the ship and had to reach up to the nose of the ship, hence the long legs of the stool). She would pack us a little snack, for space, in animal cracker boxes. Your post totally brought that memory back. :)

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  3. Oh the things we thought as kids. What a fun memory, Alice! I used to bring along my grandma's corded phone and pretend I was talking on a car phone in the backseat of her huge Cadillac. I was convinced that anyone who saw me thought we must be really rich to own a car phone!

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  4. No wonder they don't want to use the stools, when they have such fantastic cardboard ships with room for CARGO!

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