Terrain For Hippos: Reviving the art of Cardboard Cottage Construction!

[NARSES2]

That's neat. 

Did you ever work on Blue Peter here in the UK by any chance ?

NB : Blue Peter was and still is a children's t.v. programme that in the 50/60/70's specialised in making things from stuff found in the house or garden and which would otherwise have gone in the bin. It may still be doing it for all I know 

[puddingwrestler]

I have never even seen Blue Peter although the legend seeps through to the colonies. The only time I was ever in the UK I was
A: Ten
B: Unaware of Blue Peter
C: At least three years from building my first cardboard cottage

[PR19_Kit]

Ten? 

You were right in the age range it was aimed at!

[NARSES2]

Ten? 

You were right in the age range it was aimed at!

Yup, but that age range varied a bit dependent on who the female presenter of the time was 

[Weaver]

Blue Peter from 1976: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuVsvnFtknw

Lesley Judd learning how to be a Laker Airlines stewardess (obviously a profession with a future...) and making flying model planes out of styrofoam.

[Rheged]

I've actually got a Blue Peter badge!!  In the early 70's, they made a foray into the Lake District to show what mountain rescue teams did.  I was one of the various unfortunates who played a casualty, and was carried down the fellside in a very old and uncomfortable Neil Robinson stretcher.  I was so swathed in bandages and padding that not even my mother recognised me when the film was shown............but all of the participants did get a badge out of it!