Everyday is a good mail day with a {DIY} Mailbox

Some might say #shegetsitfromhermama but Hazel LOVES a good mail day. Anytime we drive or walk past the mailboxes she asks to check the mail. Do you know how hard it is to explain to a two year old that we don’t get mail on the weekends?! Just the other day she was driving her little push car around and waving a piece of junk mail in the air saying “I’m checking the mail.” I thought to myself, I need to make her a mailbox, she will love it! So down to the garage I went to collect a few things to make my mailbox.

What I grabbed:

• Large Diaper box
• Roll of paper
• Black Gorilla tape {sorry hubby we need more}
• A button
• A red sharpie
• Exacto knife
• Handful of empty envelopes
• Stickers
• small empty boxes

What I did:

I simply wrapped the box with the roll of paper, trimming all the edges with my black tape. I traced the biggest “parcel” I had and cut out 3 sides to make a door, making sure to trim the edge of the door with tape as well. I applied a red button to the door to act as the key hole, just like on our community mailbox. Just about the door I played another strip of tape and cut an opening just big enough for some envelopes to fit through. Last but not least I grabbed my sharpie and wrote MAIL on the top of the box. My kiddo spent hours dropping the letters in the slot, over and over again. I wonder what I can turn the rest of the diaper boxes into for her, I might just have to try Little Miss Mama’s washer and dryer!

Xo. Andria