Looking for a back-to-school craft to do with your kids? This cardboard backpack is the perfect project!

Just a few weeks left and we’re going back to school! It’s also Nate’s first day of daycare, so we are all excited, especially me! I will have the whole house to myself! Just kidding! (No, I’m not!)

Sharing with you our cardboard backpack as one of our back to school projects!

I asked Niko what kind of backpack he wants to make and he answered dinosaur in an instant!

Let’s make a cardboard dinosaur backpack:

Materials needed:

• Recycled cereal boxes
• Recycled milk caps
• Paint and paintbrushes
• Glue gun and stick
• Scissors

Instructions:

• Open the empty cereal box.
• Cut an arch at the top of both the front and back parts of the box.
• Slowly close the box inside out.
• Cut a strip the same size as the opening on the top. Cut small lines on the edges.

• Attach the strip on the top part of the cereal.
• Paint the whole box.
• Get another piece of box and cut into a square.
• Fold the edges of the square except the top. Paint.

• Cut out the horns, nose and eyes from the pieces of cardboard and color.
• Cut long strips of cardboard for the handles. Paint.

• Attach the square cardboard into the box.
• Attach the eyes into the recycled milk caps.

• Attach the horns, nose and eyes into the box.
• Attach the handles in the back of the box.

Reel tutorial:
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Hope you liked and enjoyed our cardboard backpack!

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