This week our $20 Dollar Robot comes in twos and raises the bar on cuteness in robot-form. Inspired by Monday’s Japanese Argribot Exo-skeleton we present these super-fun creations from Lindsey that are much more affordable and adorable. I just spent 20 minutes trying to create a portmanteau of those two adjectives and I failed. Now, over to Lindsey.

I’m always amazed by how much recycling mounts up for a family of four. Seeing as there’s usually a stash of various shaped empty containers and cardboard in the kitchen waiting to go out to the recycle bin, we usually play with it a bit before it gets there.

We cut face sized holes and in a couple of the gigantic multi bag cereal boxes, turned them inside out, taped them back together and then the kids spent a good 40 minutes to an hour decorating the “robot heads” with paint and stickers. I rolled up a piece of aluminum foil and taped it to the top of each as antenna.

The Ffionator 5000 and Beedasbot were born and a good afternoon of make believe play ensued.

N.B. I realised after I’d cut the peepholes that if I’d done it with the box the right way up then it would look like they had Tony the tiger’s miniture body before we turned the boxes inside out for painting.

And that is how it is done, meaty readers, send evidence of your creations to editor@20dollarrobot.com Remember twenty bucks or less. We’re on a budget and so should you be.

Originally posted on filthwizardry and reposted with permission.