It all started with a new stove. Katie and Jason Fagelman had one delivered to their home in Forest Hills about two years ago. And they were left with a big cardboard box. “I was about to throw it out, and I thought that seemed like such a waste,” Katie Fagelman says. “So I thought I would try and make something out of it.” Their older daughter, Molly, was 5 at the time, and she was into putting on her apron and serving tea to everyone. So Fagelman turned the cardboard into a café where Molly, younger sister Susie and their friends could play. “They got so much enjoyment out of it,” Fagelman says. And friends kept asking her to craft one for their kids, so she realized it could be a little business. She hired Englander Container Packaging Co. in Carrollton to print and die cut cardboard cafés based on her prototype. The result is Little Play Spaces. Now Fagelman sells the flat-packed cardboard cafés for $49 each at littleplayspaces.com. Each one has window shades that open and close, and painted-on chalkboard menus. Katie incorporated a little bit of French vocabulary in Le Café, such as signs for ouvert and fermé: open and closed. So far, she’s sold the cafés to friends and friends-of-friends. “I sent out an email to friends, and it got forwarded,” she says. “We sold quite a few of them before Christmas.” Next, Katie has plans to create a cardboard castle, a theater and a beauty shop, which friends have told her their kids want. Customers say they like that the café can be folded up and put away. And no plastic from China is involved. “It’s made out of recycled paper,” Fagelman says. “And once your kids outgrow it, you can put it in your big blue bin.”