Take one empty tissue box - the slim square kind worked for us, but I guess it doesn’t matter. Pull out the plastic film bit that holds the tissues in, so you have an open window with a frame, effectively. Poppet wanted to cover up the colour of the original box, but found that poster paint wouldn’t stick to the shiny surface, so we covered the box with strips of masking tape first, then painted the tape with white poster paint. Leave it to dry...
Meanwhile, draw and colour a suitable picture on a piece of plain white paper, making sure the paper is the same size as the box, but the picture itself will fit inside the “frame”. Relatively thin cheap paper works best for the fun part that comes later.
Carefully stick the paper onto the front of the box. Cut up an old egg box to make legs, which can be fixed on with sellotape. You can stop at this stage, and admire your new TV:
Or
you can carry on: buy (or if you have the right kind of garage/shed,
rummage around and find) a simple electrical circuit with battery and
bulb, like so:
Make a hole in the back of the tissue box large enough to poke the bulb through. Connect up the circuit, turn off the house lights, and settle down to watch the show.
Poppet
was so entranced by this that she lay on the floor watching for nearly
half an hour, periodically calling out, “Look, they made a TV program
about us - come and see!” She then made a remote control, a mobile phone, and finally an
iPad, so that she can “noodle” (it’s a family word...) while she is
watching TV. Oh dear.
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