Check out my Animal Crackers Box on the my Toys page. It’s so much fun to make and only takes about 2 hours once you have your fabric panel, lining and selected an animal fabric. (The actual animals that fill the box take longer, but I made them while watching TV one night.)
Enjoy the time making them and then matching the child play with 
it. A good friend and I ‘craft’ on Tuesday evenings and we were both able to get one completed, except for the crackers - but we did get them started.
The fabric panel comes without the ‘animals’ so you can pick an animal fabric then cut them out and iron them on with double adhesive. This way every box is personalized.
See some of the ‘crackers’ I’ve made. If you make two or more of each a matching game can be played. I also cut them to the animal shape but a more cracker shape works also.
Note: I had the fabric panel printed by Spoonflower. Please check them out by clicking on the link on the left.
What a cute idea.