Milk Carton Keyboard Guard

I was going post about facecloths I crocheted this week, but instead of typing up pattern directions, I spent the morning “recycling” milk cartons into these:

Why? Because my kids can’t be on the computer for two seconds without hitting one of those keys that yanks them out of the program. “MOM, my game is gone! Come fix it!”

Drives me BANANAS.

In my house, you would think that esc, alt, ctrl, and that window thingy are the only keys on the board. But, with my handy-dandy, ugly carton blocks, the toddler can keep banging away at Fisher Price Peek-A-Boo without me hearing, “Mama, it’s gone! It’s gone!” every second.

Now, I may be the only mother in America with this problem, but just in case I’m not–here’s how you to it:

1. Sharpen your favorite knife and cut open one or two milk cartons.

2. Choose what buttons you want to cover. Draw out boxes with the desired dimensions. Bare down on pen and your folding will be a breeze later.

*The number pad cover is just the bottom of the carton. Not really a trouble spot for us, but it fit SO nicely.

3. Box off the corners to be your tabs.

4. Cut the boxes out, snip one side of each tab, crease.

5. Super glue (or staple?) tabs to secure box shape and set on keyboard.

6. Instruct children that anyone who removes the boxes will not have pbskids.org restarted when they jack it up–and instead, will get a time-out from the computer.

Tagged as: kids, recycling