This book has very creative designs that use cardboard and at-home items to make fantastic (and cheap) toys that spur the imagination. The layout definitely has its audience in mind as any elementary or middle school kid would feel completely comfortable browsing through it to get ideas.

Thanks to NetGalley and Capstone for the opportunity to read and review Epic Cardboard Adventures by Leslie Manlapig. The book is categorized into four different sections of creativity along with a general materials list of supplies needed for every project. A materials list is also included with each individual project and its instructions. Epic Cardboard Adventures will help anyone use their imagination to make the shown creations and even create their very own unique ideas. Fun, colorful and wide open for ideas, Epic Cardboard Adventures will inspire creativity and make life more interesting -5 stars!
*I received a complimentary copy of this book for voluntary consideration.

I will be purchasing this book when it comes out. I will probably also buy a copy for friends and family that parents of young children. This book would also work in groups such as boy scouts, girl scouts, for classrooms, 4h etc. There are so many activities in a wide range of subjects. My son was ready to start making things as soon as we looked through the book and has already found several projects that he would like to make. The book lists several projects to make including boats, airports, puppets, carnival games and cities. The directions are easy to follow and at the beginning of each new project a list of supplies is given so that you know what you need BEFORE you start the project which is nice. It gives children (and parents) an activity that they can work on with most items already in the home. This is a great book.

Epic Cardboard Adventures by Leslie Manlapig is a very cute and creative book of cardboard games and toys. I think families and program planners would find this book very useful. Plenty of step-by-step color photos of a great variety of designs!

This book is so fun and imaginative! It's easy to follow the creative projects that require simple materials like cardboard, string, scissors, paint, and duct tape. Even when the materials are a little more complex, alternatives are offered. The projects vary in size, cardboard origin (toilet paper rolls to fridge boxes), and difficulty, divided by themes. It's a really fun book that offers hours of entertainment, and it's a pleasure to read and flip through, with all the full color photos and step by step instructions, plus inspo pages. I want to make some stuff on my own!

This book offers a wide variety of handicraft works using old cardboard boxes, which makes it easy to start and have fun. While there were a couple of new inspirations for projects my son and I immediately decided to copy, there also was a large number of things we already built in the past, like the knight's helmet or the shield, which are not really original ideas. Also, the builder and fireman pages didn't interest my son at all, he lost interest in those themes years ago, and IMHO they would appeal mostly to younger children.

I liked that every project was suitable for boys, so we didn't have to skip any 'pink pages'. While girls might find the projects equally cool, I guess the book's main audience will be boys, however it is not advertised as such (maybe the examples on the cover image give a hint).

If you never did much handicraft work before, this book may be a good introduction because it provides easy-to-make instructions and you can start immediately because you don't have to buy any fancy stuff to get started. Also, I think that a lot of projects in this book will be of more interest to younger children, though they may still need a little help from a adult.

I guess that maybe one quarter of the book is stuff we decided we want to build, half of the projects we already did in the past and one quarter just didn't meet our interest.

If you want to handcraft with your children beyond the cardboard box with a door and a window, then the "Epic Cardboard Adventures" is for you. Many interesting and relatively easy projects to occupy yourself with the kids. Since I have two boys my favorites were the pyramid, the iglu, the knight sword and shield, the treasure box, and the ninja sword and daggers.

This book had several cute crafts. It used cardboard in new and unique ways. I could easily see many families using the instructions from this book.

I was given the opportunity to check this book out through NetGalley in exchange for a review. The cover looked fun so I had to take a look. Since it was an eBook, I am not sure how the binding will be but I hope that the book will be spiral-bound for ease when doing the projects. That being said, the book has many projects (it says 20 adventures on the cover but there are 3 or more crafts per adventure). The projects look fun to do and easy enough that a child could do them with a parent or older sibling. I hope Leslie Manlapig creates more craft books for kids like this.

A really fun and unique creative book, great for kids holidays and groups!

This is a great resource for teachers and parents. There are directions for making costumes and fun art and play items using inexpensive materials. Many might already be in your home or craft area (tape, scissors, glue and paint, etc). Bottle caps and old CDs turn into buttons and gauges for spaceship controls., old T-shirts serve as the base for making cool costumes, and an old pie tin completes a time machine.

Truly epic adventures can be had with ordinary cardboard boxes, some paint and duct tape. I am thinking of making some of these things for myself. Kids will have fun making these projects and even more fun playing with them. And when they are done just recycle them. So much better than expensive toys. Uses creativity and imagination.

This ebook was not quite ready for prime time, but it is an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher.

It's a book which reminds me of my own Earthquake children's book where I added a cheap and nasty way to make you own excavator out of a cereal box and some tape. This book goes way beyond that - way beyond into outer-space - almost literally! It hosts four sections, each with five sub-sections devoted to different topics, but related to the main theme:

Explore the World
Outer Space
Deep Sea ocean
Ancient Egypt
Jungle Explorer
Arctic Adventure
Travel Through Time
Prehistoric
Medieval defence
High Seas
Ninja
Wild West
Put on a Show
Rock Concert
Puppet Theater
Carnival Fun
Lights, Camera, Action
Magician
Work a Cool Job
Construction Worker
Pilot
Race Car Driver
Shh! Secret Agent
Firefighter

Fill details of how to make all of these are listed below...no, just kidding, but full details of how to make them are in the book, including a list of things you will need, the main one of which is cardboard! Cardboard boxes, toilet roll and paper towel inner tubes, construction paper, and so on.

You will also need some crafting tools if you do not already possess them, so there will be some outlay fro supplies such as scissors, a ruler, felt markers for adding detail and coloring, yarn or string, hot melt glue - or at least some sort of good strong glue - paint, if you want to add finishing touches to your creations, and what else: of course, duct tape! Or duck tape as I read in one novel I shall be reviewing soon!

The book gives step by step instructions on how to make yourself into an astronaut or a pirate, an explorer or a construction worker, a time-traveler or a deep-sea diver. The ideas are inventive and colorful, easy to make - but adult assistance will be required if your child is too young to cut cardboard or do some of the other more mature portions of the builds. There are also some safety issues if you're going to be building swords, even out of cardboard, and guns that fire, even though ti;s only projectiles using rubber bands, so be advised of that

But once you have those basic supplies, cardboard of some sort usually isn't hard to come by or to beg from a store, or a neighbor, although for the pyramid you'll need a large box if your kid is going to sit in it. Otherwise you could just make it smaller and stay outside it, using toy characters to go in and out instead!

Some of the designs are admirably elaborate (such as an airport runway with landing lights!), so be prepared to invest some time for those projects that are not especially simple, but none of these projects is so complex that your everyday parent cannot make them all.

You can always propose the idea of sharing a project with your neighbors or at school, and get several children involved, building friendships, confidence, and team spirit. There are so many ideas, well thought-out and planned, with great results from so simple beginnings. The author has put a lot of work into this and the results are awesome.

I think this is a great book which will stimulate imaginations and provide a reward of a child not only creating something, but ending up with a fine toy at the end of it which will continue to grow a child's mind. maybe it will even last longer or be treasured more than a store-ought toy because the child made it themselves. Who knows what kind of a career that might lead to when the child grows older? I recommend this book fully.

A new creative book from Leslie Manlapig and Capstoneabsolutely full of fun projects to fire up the imagination. The adventures are arranged thematically: Explore the World, Travel Through Time, Put on a Show, and Work a Cool Job. Each of the adventures are broken down into many (many!) individual projects and props for playtime.
The 'explore the world' adventure for example contains multiple scenarios with lots of projects for outer space, Egyptian pyramids and costumes, ocean adventure (shark fin, snorkel mask, boat design), and jungle explorer themed play. Each of the other adventures are set up similarly with many creative projects for hours and hours of playtime fun.

The materials lists are clear and easy to find. The tutorials are well written and amply photographed.

A wonderfully fun book with really cool projects.

A+ Book for pinterest moms and homeschooling parents. But I'm sorry, you'll find some working parents just don't have that kind of time. Maybe for summer vacation after I retire?