Valentine Box

If you know Aiden, then you know my sweet boy loves anything with a siren. It may be the effect of having a law enforcement officer for a daddy, or it may be his sensory issues that go crazy with the flashing lights and loud sound. Either way, if it has lights and a siren, he loves it. When asked what he wants to be when he grows up, he usually answers, "A police man!", seconded by, "A Boone Firefighter!", but when asked what he wanted to make for his Valentine box, it was an ambulance. Wow, Aiden, how are we going to do that? Well, we made a side shape out of paper, traced it onto cardboard, then another with the reverse side. We then cut rectangles out of the cardboard to fill the middle and held together with packing tape. We spray painted the entire box white. We googled images of tires, the Red Cross emblem, and a windshield. I typed "E.L.S. Emergency Love Services" and glued all of the papers to the box. The tires were glued to cardboard, then cut out. We nailed them into the box, super glued them, and tped the undersides so that the box would stand on them. In retrospect, we should have bought brads to put them on with. We used the light bar from Aiden's police kit for Mr. Potato Head. So, after all of this work, the box went to school today. We took a couple pictures of it in the parking lot because A-man wanted to see the tires on "real road".