Oh I am a bit of a hoarder of Shoe Boxes.. I don’t know what it is about them, I just love them – they come in that perfect “little size”, you can put things IN a shoebox, shoe boxes stack neatly and they come in all sorts of colours. We particularly shoe boxes, as a gift set packaging – we love to decorate our shoe box and fill it with crafty goodies as birthday presents.. but we also like to craft with them. An in honour of our love for the humble shoebox, we have once again, pulled together a set of wonderful shoe box crafts for you!!! Check out these clever clever ideas – from handy home tidy hacks, to fun toys and games for kids! Which is YOUR favourite shoe box craft?!
Shoe Box Tidies & Gift Sets
A great way to keep all those chargers in order.. make your own Charging Station out of a shoebox!
Clever Ribbon Storage solution!
We LOVE using our Shoebox as GIFT SETS!
Shoe Box Toys
A lovely guest post from Along Came Cherry, sharing this Shoe Box Laptop for kids
Self contained “Shoe box toy crafts” – bedroom and storage in one!
Shoebox Table Football!! What fun!!
Create Shoe Box MONSTERS!
Shoe box suitcase (great for any Paddington Bear fans!)
Shoeboxes as a Learning Tool
Shoe box paper or ribbon weaving
More Shoe Box Weaving! Use fabrics or wool!
Shoe Box Dolls Houses
Making shoebox dolls houses, is probably one of the most “common” uses for a shoebox craft.. and here we share some cute ideas!
Shoebox Dolls House – another bedroom idea.
Polka Dot Cafe – so cute to have a cafe for the dolls to go and visit!
I love the idea of creating one shoe box room at a time.. and then bringing them all together to make one fabulously big DOLLS HOUSE! That would make for one of those fabulous “ongoing” projects with your family!
Or go the other way and divide one shop box into little rooms.. a perfect Mouse House!
Shoe Box “Play Scenes”
Shoe Box Small World Play – My Little Pony.
Little Red Riding Hood Story Box
LOVE this little Shoe Box (split level) garage!
Shoe Box Dioramas & Theatres
Shoe Boxes make GREAT Puppet Theatres (especially since you can store your puppets inside!)
Shoe boxes are great for school projects and “Dioramas” – little scenes. Here we have a Mr Men diorama for the School Egg Decorating competition!
Artic Box Puppet theatre/ diorama
The “classic” Shoe Box Aquarium!
Sooo, I hope you have enjoyed these shoebox craft ideas and that you are inspired to get GET CRAFTY!!!
Babs says
May 19, 2015 at 7:28 amJust love this site and so does my grandaughter
RACHEL says
July 6, 2015 at 8:34 pmWhat great ideas for Summer. Love the Football Table.
Katie Herrera says
September 28, 2015 at 1:25 pmWonderful ideas! I have too many useless shoe boxes at home and I can successfully recycle them into creative toys for my daughter, and good reasons to spend some more time together. Thank you for the ideas!
MsAshton says
August 2, 2016 at 7:22 amWow, those are really great DIY ideas! I wish I am as creative as you are, I’d probably hoard a lot of shoe boxes, too.
Katie says
August 23, 2017 at 2:58 pmAwesome
Thomas says
September 15, 2017 at 10:14 pmGreat post! Have nice day ! 🙂 kgbkd