Activity Cube for Little Kids

We worked on a kiddo craft today – an activity cube to use for an active indoor game – perfect for a day like today when it was completely pouring outside (yay summer). This was a fun, easy craft to work on with the kids.

I found a piece of cardboard to use – it was white on one side which worked well for the illustrations. The first step was to measure and draw out the template for the cube on the back side of the cardboard. I decided to make 4″ squares and used a yard stick to measure and draw the sides.

It would have been a bit straighter with a T-square or a triangle, but it worked out ok. Next I used a craft knife to cut out the cube, and scored the rear side along all the lines to make the folds easier.

We decided on which movements we wanted on our cube, and drew the illustrations on each side. Vivi did three and I did three.

Finally we folded up the sides and taped the cube together.

We had a lot of fun with the cube today, taking turns throwing it and doing the activity/movement that came up. Our six movements were tree pose, star pose, touch your toes, jump up and down, spin around and stand on one foot.