by Joyce Slaton posted in Products & Prizes

If you have any extra boxes, toilet paper rolls, or plastic containers lying around your house, don't toss them out! They could become a helmet...

Or a dollhouse...

Or a garage...

...complete with a car wash with felt strips on barbecue skewers, so that you can turn the sticks to make them "wash" toy cars.

Crafty Margaret Wuthrich-Sarmenta, mom to 3-year-old Lucas, loves to turn household objects into toys for her energetic "threenager." "I want to inspire moms and dads to DIY and do activities with their kids rather than play with gadgets," she told BabyCenter.
Mission accomplished! Here are some more of Wuthrich-Sarmenta's inspired creations.

Wuthrich-Sarmenta made this busy board with locks, buttons, and screens as a sort of a substitute iPad to keep Lucas entertained without screentime.

Disposable cups on a piece of cardboard = a shoot-the-ball game...