Sitting in the bleachers watching my daughters’ 6th grade basketball games, it’s guaranteed the stands will be run amok with bored little basketball siblings. One Saturday I was completely distracted from the game while watching the results of a genius mother who had come to the game prepared with a simple box of aluminum foil and a pair of kid-safe scissors for her younger son.
As he created his own action figures by molding the foil, the bleachers around him began to fill with other little boys that wanted a piece of the action. Ultimately, there were aluminum sword-yielding super heroes fighting an army of foil army guys. These kids were so preoccupied, thinking creatively, sharing and having such a good time that when the buzzer indicated “game over”, they were actually bummed!
So if you have little ones and need to keep them preoccupied, be sure to keep a roll of Reynolds in the car! A 50 foot roll runs about $5. Of course, depending on the ages of your kids, you have to be careful with the sharp saw-tooth cutting edge on the box. And before you hand over the foil, be sure to tuck in the side tabs to keep the roll of shiny stuff from taking off across the floor!
For the sake of this post, I made my own little action figure: Shiny, The Super Blogger!
what a great idea! and it can be recycled afterwards.
Wow..that is a great idea!
sandy toe
Loved your super blogger figure!
As a mother of 7 and 9 year old boys.. that is a genius idea!
Moms old and young all over the blog world are sitting here reading this and thinking….
WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THAT???
And I LOVE your action hero!!
this is rain on your parade i know, but it must be done. aluminum foil is not environmentally friendly and it is a fossil resource. please please please do not waste it on toys. it is precious. please research what goes into the production of aluminum foil before suggesting that kids have entertainment with it.
thanks for enduring my rant…
Love it!! I will have to do this with my little ones!
Such a wonderful idea! Thanks for sharing. P.S. I love “Shiny the Superblogger”!
Love what you made. That’s clever. I’ll keep the al foil idea for my grandson when he gets a little bigger.
Have a Happy Easter!
So fun! What a great idea.
ingenious…made me chuckle…I can just picture those little kids…and of course, you would also make something creative!
Okay, I’m going to have to hit the store and pick up some extra foil now!
By the way, just how long did it take you to make your action figure? Sheesh!
oh my goodness you are soo WONDERFUL for sharing such a CUTE idea!! AND i LOVE your Super blogger model too!! hehe Thank you so very much for sharing this GREAT idea!
Have a FANTASTIC evening!!
Wonderful idea! And I’m impressed by Shiny The Superblogger! Too cute!
WHAT A GREAT IDEA!HAVE A BLESSED DAY!
So clever!
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This idea!!!
I have a bored child stuck watching game after game.
He would get into this.
THANKS!!!
Love this! When my son was little I bought a small tool box (tackle box would have been even better) and put a roll of scotch tape, a handful of rubber bands, a bunch of paper clips, some magnets, a pair of kid scissors, a ball of string, post-its, scratch paper, a pen and a glue stick in it. Hours of fun to be had and it traveled well.
Whitney
PS Nice foil figure.
How fun! Love your super blog guy:-) ha!