Shoebox Bonanza
Carol Duvall Show : Episode CDS-1849 -- More Projects » By Carol Duvall
The carton of goodies sent to us by Cindy Bruch of Davis, Calif., totally stunned us. Not only was it a really big carton filled with an unbelievable number of projects, but they were incredibly clever and her story was fun.
It was some years ago that Cindy saw the show where I shared how to make a train out of some packages of Lifesavers. It was that simple (and old) idea that got Cindy started on making figures with candy. She started with Christmas and made sleighs out of candy canes and rocking horses and reindeer and on and on using every kind of wrapped candy available. Using a hot glue gun to hold things together, her son and daughter also got involved, and she started giving them away by taking them to her doctor's office and her husband's office and the children's school.
By now it was no longer just Christmas that she was making candy creatures for. There was Halloween with spiders and bats and Thanksgiving pilgrims and Indians and turkeys and the 4th of July with Uncle Sam. She added faces to some like the cat tote for Halloween. And the list went on.
Along the way she, of course, needed something to carry her creations in, so she covered pizza boxes and hinged them together, put handles on them, and carried them like totes.
The last box creation we showed didn't contain candy but it was what she made from the pizza boxes for her son's birthday. A spy kit! Cindy made one for every little boy there and I'm sure they loved them. Each kit was made using two of the pizza boxes painted silver and held together with the silver tape on one end and a lock and chain and key at the top. Inside was a "computer" and a rear-view mirror to see who was spying on you from behind. There were jars with "fingerprint powder " (baby powder) and even a wonderful dial made of a CD that featured several codes. It was really quite wonderfully inventive and clever.
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