"Sounds like it's time to give them a cardboard box or a flashlight!" That's the ridiculous but so true advice I'll get from my sister when she calls and the noisy kids make chit chat impossible. It's good advice.

My 2, 4 and 6 year old kids have been spending hours coloring, painting and playing with our eco-friendly paint-able cardboard schoolhouse from Imagination Box Co. It's been a fabulous craft time and imagination time toy for all three of them, together and separate. I expected for them to paint it for an hour or two and then be done which was fine because I could just recycle it. I have been very pleasantly surprised at the amount of time they have all dedicated to it. It's been a few weeks now and they still come back to "work" on it or bring over their Barbie's and little critters to play school with it.

When a morning play date started getting a little too rambunctious and we needed a good distraction for the kids to keep them getting along for just another hour, I broke out the Paint-able Country Cottage which quickly settled and amused all 6 of them. Imagination Box Co, a thinking globally and acting locally company that has a 100% American made manufacturing process that produces a line of 100% recyclable (including the packaging) cardboard play kits. Each kit comes with a cardboard structure (a little assembly required) and a FREE set of eight non-toxic washable watercolors. Additional paint sets available for only $2.

This is surely one green toy you won't feel guilty about disposing of when the kids are done with it! Just lug (it's not heavy) your Imagination Box to the recycle bin! Starting at $24.95 @ ImaginationBoxCo.Com