The zombie apocalypse may not be imminent, but lunchtime always is. Help your high schooler pack his lunch in style with a recycled show box redesigned as a zombie survival kit.
What You Need:
❑ Shoe box
❑ Yellow duct tape
❑ Permanent marker
❑ Red construction paper
❑ Green construction paper
❑ Brown paper grocery bag
❑ Small plastic containers
❑ Glue
❑ Purple food colouring
❑ Bowl
❑ Spoon
❑ Scissors
❑ Tape
What You Do:
1. Make your child cover the shoebox in a brown paper grocery bag — in the same way he might cover his textbook.
2. Let him use tape to secure the covering in place and scissors to trim the excess paper.
3. Zombie apocalypses can be dangerous, so make him cover his kit in “yellow caution tape,” yellow duct tape with permanent marker warning words.
4. Make him cut out a few squares and rectangles out of the red construction paper.
5. What sort of signs would government officials write if there was a real zombie outbreak? Make your child use his permanent marker to write words like infected, quarantined. Keep out on the red squares and rectangles.
6. Let him tape these signs on the outside of the shoebox.
7. Make him cover his small plastic containers with the green and purple construction paper, using tape to hold the paper in place and scissors to trim the excess.
8. Help him use his permanent marker to draw a skull and crossbones and other zombie-ish labels on the green and purple container covers.
9. Set his containers in the shoebox.
10. Make him combine glue and a few drops of food colouring in a bowl.
11. Let him use a spoon to mix the sticky liquid.
12. Help him drizzle the homemade “zombie drool” all over the containers and the outside of the shoebox.
13. All done! The only thing this zombie kit needs is some yummy lunch items.
