Packing Box Decals

Mundane cardboard boxes housing large appliances . . . washing machines, television sets, dishwashers, desktop computers . . . (well you get the idea) are often kids' favorite playthings. They imaginatively turn them into forts, castles, playhouses, buses, etc. Sometimes, when a parent can be bothered, a drawbridge, murder holes and other castle essentials can be cut into the box, heightening the experience. Of course, sometimes a door and a couple of windows will do.

To help recycle the box as a toy, to make the play more realistic and fun, to trigger imaginative play, why not include box side size decals which can be stuck onto the box once its original purpose as packing has been fulfilled? The decals can represent, in full detailed color, the front and sides of a mini mansion playhouse or an impregnable fort, a school bus or racing car. Some designs could of course include "dotted" lines (for inept parents) indicating the correct areas to be cut out for windows, etc.

A variation would be decals sold separately and not actually within the box. They would either be trimable for fit, or could be sold point of purchase at a location where similar size boxes are sold . . . e.g. moving boxes.