Arts and Crafts Monday

Ah, it's allergy season again. I can't help with that. But I can offer you this cute little Japanese paper toy. It's a kleenex dispenser shaped like a bus. You get little flat anthropomorphic animal characters to cut out and glue together and you can stick them into slots in the various windows so they're riding in your bus! Yay, a toy and it's kinda useful. Or it would be if Americans still sold small tissue dispensers anymore. Instead we get tiny packets where you open one end and slide them out like they were a stack of notebook paper. Still. You'll probably figure something out, and it'll give you something to do that's not work.

Various other paper toys from the same site ("KidsGoo", apparently) found here, and there's some accessories and stuff for the Paper Museum dollhouses here, scroll all the way down and click on the floating characters. If you want the houses they go with, get them at Paper Museum, it has additional ones not found on the other site, and is easier to navigate.

And if none of that catches your fancy at all, here's the Custom Paper Toys site, with Gnarley, paper gargoyle.

Unless otherwise noted, all I've mentioned here are free downloadable pdf files. (If you click around a lot on the Paper Museum site, you may eventually get to pages that will lead you to pages that will try to sell you, in Japanese, pre-printed versions of stuff. I assume you know how not to enter your credit card numbers though. You'll be fine.)

I may have to put together a separate blogroll for my paper toy sites I like.