I will say that once a kid gets past toddler age the kids are a little harder to please with homemade toys. Lucky me, I still have a little one year old! Score. This one year old loves to sort, stack, and hide things, so I figured a sort toy would be perfect, and guess how easy a sort toy is to make? Mmhmm gurl, you guessed it. Real easy.
Here’s the things you will need:
A Shoe box
A few block shapes
A few block shapes
A xacto knife (Or a poor man's xacto knife: a box cutter)
If you want your box to be pretty, then you will also need:
A large gift bag
Glue gun
Clear tape (forgot that one until later)
The blocks are wooden blocks that I bought at Hobby Lobby a
few years. Amazon sells them here.
I started by simply tracing the blocks on the top of the
shoe box and then cutting out a slightly larger shape so that the block could
easily be put in the hole by a sweet little baby.Got all your holes cut? Boom.
Done.
If I had thought further ahead on this project, I wouldn't have used the arch block. My baby can
push any block through that hole, which is fine because she’s still happy with
the toy, but if you want to make the toy a little bit of a challenge, skip the
arch block.
Now, if you want to take this a step further and make the
sorter toy pretty, continue on.
The gift sack paper I used is thicker and smoother than most
wrapping papers. I also decided to use a
glue gun to secure the paper to my box.
Once the entire box is wrapped, cut the paper where the shape
holes are. I used clear tape to secure
the paper under the lid, but you could use the glue gun again.
Tada! You're done! Well done on a free, super easy to make toy for the baby in your life!
-Amber
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