The Mom I Want to Be

Large cardboard box
Scissors
Pencil
Assorted cereal, cookie, and pasta boxes
Colored tape
Glue
Clear Con-Tact paper

With the scissors, cut the flaps off of the large cardboard box. Turn the box bottom up. Then, make an opening for your child’s legs by drawing an arch on one of the longer sides and cutting it out. Using the cutout as a pattern, cut an identical shape from the opposite side of the box. Discard both pieces. Next, cut the tops from all of the food boxes and remove the inner wrappers. Attach the deeper boxes to the sides of the desk with short pieces of tape. Then, wrap longer pieces of tape all the way around the desk and side pockets to firmly secure them. For pencil holders and other desktop compartments, arrange smaller cartons and canisters along the back edge of the box and secure them by gluing the bottoms to the top of the desk. Lastly, make the working surface spill proof by covering it with clear Con-Tact Paper.

Stroll around your house, looking for typical office supplies (metal or plastic file cabinets, pens pencils, crayons, markers, binders, folders, laptops, computers, etc, etc, depending on your job, or business that you need this office for.) Then go set that up however you like in your office 4Get a cheap cell phone or use walkie talkies, an intercom, or a build your own phone kit, and use that to call clients. Get a little black/white board to write plans in the background

Desk
name plate
old forms/files
typewriter
Briefcase
memo pad
phones/phone books
Paper/pens/pencils
calculator
stamps
Old computer
stapler
paperclips
Junk mail
pen holder
rolodex