Kids truly love playing with these, and they enjoy decorating the boxes just as much. These are a great idea if you take care of a lot of children, or babysit because the kids will stay occupied.

Just throw some newspaper on the table and let them be creative with the paint, markers and glue. Here's what you need:

? A shoe box

? Seven or Eight Rubber bands

? Some Paint

? Markers

First, take the top from the shoe box, and allow the kids to paint the box in whatever colors they want. After you let the shoebox dry, you will build a guitar by placing the rubber bands around the shoebox.

You want to place them around the smaller width of the box. You should place them all the same width away from each other.

To allow the kids to further build a guitar that they will love, you can let them glue on sparkly accessories, a length of string so they can place the guitar around their neck, or any kind of other decorations they want.

A great idea if you have more than one kid is to make them some other instruments, like homemade maracas, or drums. They will love having a band, or just playing one instrument, and you will love the fact that they're occupied!

If you don't like this method, you can get more options at http://www.buildaguitar.net/

You don't have to be a great guitar player to enjoy all the fun of playing. Sometimes you just need to go with it and have a good time no matter what you sound like.