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2008/08/11

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Build a fun, free crawling tunnel out of empty diaper boxes

Robyn's got an ingenious use for those big diaper boxes:

My son is 10 months old and loves to crawl through boxes. I had three empty diaper boxes that he would crawl through one at a time. Yesterday I was looking for a way to entertain him and decided to tape the boxes together. He was so excited he wouldn't even let me finish taping before he was crawling through and laughing. I only taped the long flaps to each other and left the short ones free. Be sure to tape the inside flaps down so they don't lift up and catch them on their tummy. I can then lift up the short flaps and see what he's up to or tickle him. I will also lay at one end and "close" the flaps so he can crawl over and open them.

My contraption even folds flat to store under the couch, and will go into the recycling when we're done with it.