Materials:

• Boxes of various sizes
• Toilet rolls
• Butcher’s paper, tissue paper or just a roll of white paper
• Sticky tape
• Scissors
• Coloured paper
• Assorted buttons
• Crayons
• Thin masking tape or washi tape
• A few little cars and “villagers”

Instructions:

• Tape up the open boxes so they’re a bit more solid.
• Wrap the boxes in plain-coloured paper as you would a present.
• Have the children draw bricks, house numbers, doors and windows on the wraped boxes.
• Have your children cut out squares and rectangles from coloured paper for windows and doors.
• Glue in place and add a button as a doorknob.
• Have the kids line up their buildings
• Add some trees by cutting two slits on opposite sides of the end of one toilet roll and slip in green coloured paper cut into the shapes of clouds
• Add a road by using strip of blue/grey paper marked with washi or thin masking tape.