Kid Crafts: A Magnetic Turtle Toy

Have you ever looked at those pretty little wooden boxes that cheese comes in and wondered what to do with them? Not that I'm confessing anything here, that would be kind of an odd thing to think about. But regardless, here's what we did with one of the little boxes.

If you can't see it, it's lined with felt and that's a piece of a toilet paper tube as the little turtle's house.  We glued flowers for his garden and put a few tiny sea shells just because.

The turtle is made from Sculpey clay and he's glued to a string and a magnet that is threaded through a little hole in the back of his house. On the other end of the string underneath the box is another magnet and when you put the two magnets together through the wood they make him toodle around his garden magically. I suppose he doesn't need a string to do his walking but it kind of keeps it all attached so he doesn't get lost.