Cardboard box: spaceship

Adapted from Andrea Gordon's post.

Materials:

• appliance sized cardboard box (from appliance store) with windows and door cut out by an adult with box cutters
• bike-helmets
• tin-foil
• some of: streamers, sparkles, markers, crayons, paint, stickers, glue

Instructions:

• adorn bike-helmet with tin-foil to make space helmets
• decorate cardboard box in theme of space-ship with above materials
• have child wear "helmet" into space-ship and count-down for blast-off!!

Or, you could simply purchase a cardboard rocket-ship playhouse. [h/t: BoingBoing]