Just like house pets, the animals at OC Zoo need love, affection and toys to keep them happy. At the zoo, a cardboard box with a treat inside takes the place of chew toys and catnip. The boxes, which ...

Last year, my son and I went to “Unboxed,” a pop-up shop sponsored by the Chicago Children’s Museum, whose sole focus was to encourage creative play with cardboard. Dig up that old shoe box currently ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Forget the fancy toy: The box it comes in can be much more fun. Spaceship, castle, daydream haven, the cardboard box was enshrined Friday in the National Toy Hall of Fame along with ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Parents know the scenario: you buy your kids ...

A duo of 5-year-olds, Ripken Wellikson of Irvine and Wyatt Holstein-Legere of Mission Viejo, recently won the “Littlest Volunteers” contest from Wondertime Parenting Magazine after helping ration food ...

Living in a cardboard box generally signifies that you've fallen on hard times, but a new cardboard-based tiny house dubbed Nido House makes the idea seem really quite appealing. The off-grid dwelling ...

It’s an age-old phenomenon—regardless of what you spend on the contents children will invariably play with the box. The very clever people at Kidsonroof, a Dutch toy company that specializes in play ...

Nintendo Labo is a weird idea. It's a very Nintendo idea. Nintendo considers itself a toy company, not just a game company. That's one reason so many Nintendo products are more than just games, ...

Growing up, I was the kind of kid who found hours of fun playing with shoeboxes, or empty water bottles, or even just rocks I found on the ground. It’s been more than 14 years since my grade school ...