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Make a St. Valentine's Day robot box

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Early Childhood Educational Activities Examiner
Remember decorating tissue boxes for St. Valentine’s Day? Your teacher helped you to wrap the box in paper and to glue pink and red hearts to the sides. Valentine mail boxes have come a long way since those days. Look around a classroom today and you will see boxes that look like monsters, kitty cats and race cars. Some schools even have contests to see who can come up with the most creative mail box. Below, you will find instructions for creating a robot box for St. Valentine’s Day that your child can decorate and enjoy. Be sure to take a look at the slide show for examples.

Materials:
Cardboard boxes (at least two sizes)
Glue gun
Scissors
Silver or Gold spray paint
Cardboard tubes (4 or more)
Permanent markers (red and black)
Craft odds and ends such as googly eyes and heart stickers (optional)

View slideshow: Make a St. Valentine's Day robot box

Instructions:
1. Take the boxes and tubes to a well-ventilated area and cover with silver or gold spray paint. Allow to dry.
2. Cut a slot in the larger box for the valentines. If desired, a trap door can be cut in the back of the box for easier removal of the cards.
3. Cut tabs in one side of each of the cardboard tubes to make it easier to glue them to the boxes.
4. Put your robot together. The smaller box will be glued to the larger box to create the head. The tabs of the cardboard tubes will be glued to the sides of the larger box to form the arms and legs.
5. Decorate your robot. You can draw details with permanent markers or you can use craft supplies such as googly eyes, buttons and heart stickers.

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This girl robot was made from an oatmeal container and cardboard tubes. The valentines can be retrieved by removing the lid.

Slideshow: Make a St. Valentine's Day robot box

Your child will be excited to show off this nifty mail box.
Your child will be excited to show off this nifty mail box.
Photo credit: 
S.W. de Graffenried

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Starr Weems de Graffenried is a teacher, artist and activity designer. She holds a M.Ed. from Auburn University and is CELTA certified through Cambridge. Starr is the author of Teach Your Child Spanish Through Play and Brain Child. Contact her here.

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