If you have a child who enjoys crafting with cardboard, you definitely need to check out our Chompshop cardboard cutter review! This kid-safe tool creates all sorts of creative opportunities!
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Cardboard is one of my favorite creative tools for children. It’s free (if you order just about anything online, ever, or have neighbors who do) and easy to paint or draw on. There are so many fun DIY cardboard ideas on the internet, and I also love seeing what my children come up with on their own.
Cutting cardboard is the toughest part, though. There are some kid-safe cardboard cutting tools for sale, and we have enjoyed using them. But they create difficult jagged edges.
Chompshop is the first cardboard cutting tool I’ve seen that can cut smooth edges, like these cats that my 12-year-old created.
Chompshop Cardboard Cutter Review
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What Is Chompshop?
Chompshop is a child-safe cardboard cutter, that cuts smooth lines like the one you see above. It’s designed so that children can use it with no risk of getting cut by the blad.
What We Like about Chompshop
We love the safety of this cardboard tool. We also adore the lovely smooth edges that it creates.
It’s such a basic tool, but it allows for lots of detail, if you are patient.
The top surface includes cutting lines to help cut various shapes and angles. You can also draw on the cardboard and then follow that cutting line.
There is a nice tidy drawer to catch all of the little bits of cardboard “dust”.
What We Would Change
There are two things we would love to see improved in this tool.
First, it’s pretty loud. We bought it as a Kickstarter product, and I know they worked hard to solve this problem during the development process, but ours is still pretty loud.
The other thing we would change is that sometimes it is pretty hard to push the cardboard through, and it cuts pretty slowly. It is also supposed to be able to cut from the middle, but with the cardboard we have, at least, that was pretty hard to do.
You can see my 12-year-old trying it out in the video below:
These issues are worth dealing with if you want the fine details and smooth edge, but they probably do keep us from using the tool as much as we might if they didn’t exist.
Have you ever tried using this cardboard cutter? What did you think? Are there any other cardboard tools that you especially recommend?
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