Preschool Summer Tissue Box Crafts

Your preschooler can stay busy this summer with one simple item: a tissue box! Instead of tossing away this reusable item, why not recycle it into a wonderful preschool summer craft? Here are just a few ideas for turning simple tissue boxes into great preschool crafts to fill those long summer afternoons.

Materials You Will Need

Empty tissue boxes (all shapes and sizes)
Other materials mentioned below

Robot Feet

Preschoolers love to play pretend, and robots are something even girls can be! Take two empty tissue boxes, cover them with foil (glue or tape the foil on) and voila! Robot feet!

Tissue Box Guitar

This simple preschool craft turns a tissue box into a musical instrument! Cover a rectangle tissue box with brown construction paper, leaving the hole in the top (use a black marker to make fancy designs on the “guitar”). Stretch three or four rubberbands lengthwise across the box.

From a piece of cardboard, cut out the shape of a guitar neck, using a marker to draw lines to resemble strings. Glue or staple the neck onto the tissue box guitar and there you have your own homemade musical instrument!

Pretend Mailbox

Easy to make, the Pretend Mailbox is simply a tissue box covered with construction paper and the word “MAIL” printed on the side. Cut out a mailbox flag and attach it to the other side with a brad and cut one end of the tissue box to create a flap. Fill the Pretend Mailbox with lots of loving pretend mail!

Tissue Box Bank

A simple way to save change, the Tissue Box Bank is very easy to make. Simply cover a square tissue box with construction paper and decorate with markers or stickers, or use a pre-designed tissue box for a decorative item to store money!

Tissue Box Planter

Cover and decorate a square tissue box, cut out the top panel, and set a small plant inside. What an easy way to make a beautiful decoration for any room!

Back-to-School Teacher Gift

Cover and decorate a square tissue box with designs such as apples, numbers, letters, etc. Glue or staple a ribbon to the top to create a handle. Fill with small teacher gifts: an apple, pencils, red marker, chalk, stickers, and more to give to your preschool teacher!

More Tissue Box Ideas

Tune in to PreschoolRock Moms BlogTalkRadio show, The Idea Sandbox or check out Twenty-Two Things You Can Do with a Tissue Box for more great tissue box crafts and activities for preschoolers.

Submit Your Tissue Box Craft Ideas

Have an original or unique tissue box craft? Submit your ideas and we’ll publish them here!

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