Our Twinkle Box

We bought a couple sets of twinkle lights to make a canopy over Kate's bed in her bedroom.  Since we have not yet made said canopy, we have a couple sets of twinkle lights laying around the house!  In my opinion, you can never have too many twinkle lights and they are not just for Christmas, so when we started playing in our new trash bin box, we had the bright idea (pun intended) of adding some twinkle lights to make it even more fantastic!  This was so simple and Kate has LOVED playing in her box since!

Jack wonders what project we are up to now...

Our box door has been cut and Kate is eager to test it out!

Yep, works like a charm!

Kate partakes in our twinkle light testing to be sure our lights work!

While Mommy partakes in the punching of the holes in the box
roof with a Phillips Head screwdriver.  I counted the holes as I
punched so we'd have enough for all of the lights.

And then I pushed the tips of the lights through the little
holes in the roof to start our twinkling!

It looks like it takes a while but this entire project took less
than 20 minutes.

I then taped the roof of the box on the sides because
it had been opened and cut a little handle in the door.

We plugged our twinkle box in and set a little cushion at
the bottom!

Kate added her blanket...

And her backpack...and herself...and has made it just like home!

We need to get a little extension cord because I did not think of leaving any sort of slack in our lights and plugged them all in the top of the box.  This hasn't left very much opportunity to plug our twinkle box in anywhere other than RIGHT NEXT to an outlet but it still works and it is still super fun to play in!  I actually kind of what to get a bigger box and do this again so that I can play in it too!

I imagine our twinkle box will be a favorite place for the next week or two and I can't wait until we do have a bigger box!  Then again, I suppose I'll be bigger at that point too...