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"With limited durability on their outer shells, these creatures can have a lengthy lifespan, or an incredibly short one. They don't do too well in overly moist environments."

Cardboard has some wonderful flexibility in todays packaging and child-craft-activity worlds. When you're done with this stuff, make sure the boxes/cartons aren't stained with food or other organic fluids. Cardboard can only be effectively recycled if it's clean and neatly flattened.

If your cardboard is contaminated with food organics, you can easily break it down in compost and turn it into worm food, or food for your food (natural fertiliser for your veggie garden).

Also note that the plastic inner lining in most cereal boxes shouldn't go out with the cardboard. You can take that soft plastic to your local supermarket to be 'RedCycled'.