Cardboard play & fun

The other day darling hubby came home from work and walked in a very 'merry and cheery' mood along with a flat rectangular box in hand.  The item?  A Discovery Kids Playhouse.  The cool part about this item was that it's cardboard and it comes plain (meaning colorless) for your kids to color and decorate it as they please.

And oh were the girls pleased! They loved, loved, loved it!

Of course, hubby was in his 'kid at heart' mood (so sweet) and he built it right away.  It was really simple to pop up and took about five minutes.  Really.

The girls could not wait to start coloring it the next day because Crayola and Company were not coming out of their boxes at 10:00 p.m. that night.

As soon as they woke up the next day, it was straight to the box.  Color, color, color, play, play, play.  It was great!  Kudos to the genius that took the simple idea of a cardboard box and said 'Duh, kids = simple fun!'  Brilliant!

Babble's Family Style blog posted a 'charming playhouse' find and I found it to be absolutely adorable. Thank you Gabrielle Blair!

So I checked out this cute 'Cardboard Café' and went ahead and ordered one for the girls.  This one comes painted already but it's too cute to pass up.

Bonjour! Café olé anyone?