Boxitects – Book Review
If you have a tiny little maker on your hands it would be a crime to miss out on this book! I’ve seen so many box building projects on Pinterest and even made a giant box castle with the kids. That thing took up most of my large kitchen for several weeks. I didn’t have the heart to tear it down for the longest time, opting rather to squeeze around it to get into the fridge and squeeze back around to get to the counter. I eventually did take it down and replaced it with a three passenger box airplane. Let me just say, when you’re duct taping boxes together it’s more fun with colored duct tape.
Honestly though, even though the castle we built was not at all Pinterest worthy, my kids didn’t care at all. It’s the making and being together that’s fun.
About The Book
Boxitects is a story about Meg, a little girl who creates super amazing things out of boxes. Her mom sends her to Maker School to learn more about using her talent. Meg is the only boxitect there among all the blanketeers, spaghetti-tects, tin-foilers, and egg-cartoneers… until Simone shows up. The two rivals learn an important lesson about working together on the day of the Maker Match. Each girl is fighting to outdo the other instead of working together and eventually their cardboard creation crashes (say that three times fast) down in the middle of the competition. The girls have to think fast and work together to salvage their project.
I love that the author includes some instructions at the back of the book for building a couple of cardboard projects. She also shows a simple experiment that shows kids how corrugated cardboard gets its strength.
My kids absolutely love this book! I’m dying for the author to put out a companion book filled to the brim with cardboard box projects. (Hey, I can dream.) Since we’re dreaming, I think all elementary and preschools should have a maker class and hold maker matches. I know I would have loved that as a kid.
Boxitects is written and illustrated by Kim Smith. There is no audiobook yet. (Come on guys!)
You can buy Boxitects HERE. Although, some mom advice, you might want to have some boxes and duct tape ready after you finish reading!