March to Caroline from Patty - Cardboard

 

Lovely blue and white design from Patty - and it goes nicely with the stamp. I think this might be a riff on an idea from The Postman's Knock. Lindsey has a ton of fun ideas. I did not take time to go look at the idea that I think I'd find on her site - but I think Patty did her own interpretation - which is what I often recommend - and now I am tempted to do my version.

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Making things out of cardboard has come up a few times on the blog. Recently a friend of mine mentioned that her grandson in Minneapolis goes to Cardboard Camp. I Googled it and was awestruck at how cool it is. It leans towards boys building castles and armor and weapons - and that's a hard lean. I can see how and why it leans that way - and it's too bad that there is not an equivalent genre of *play* for the girls. I've been wracking my brain for what kind of cardboard construction would be welcoming to girls - and the only thing I could think of was for girls to build replicas of the Barbie Houses - which is not a bad idea at all. But - if anyone is going to launch Barbie Camp - it's going to have to be Mattel - and I doubt they'd be interested.

LINK to Cardboard camp IG

LINK to website

Interesting to note that in addition to Minneapolis, there are camps in New Orleans and Helena, Montana. It appears that the one in Helena is affiliated with their art museum.