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With a Cardboard strip and innovative ideas you can easily make
wonderful boxes in square, triangle and circular shapes. Simple decorations with
paper strips, paints, beads, sea shells or any item of your choice can transform
these boxes into beautiful gifts for your friends or to keep Jewellery and other
little treasures for yourself.
Different Shapes of Boxes
Square Shaped
Box | Triangle Shaped Box
| Circular Shaped Box
Materials Required:
The materials given can be used to make a square, triangle and circular
shaped boxes. Procedures are given below. You can make smaller or larger boxes
by decreasing or increasing corresponding size of the cardboard pieces.
- Cardboard (packing material) 3 pieces of sizes a, b, c
(a) 7.5 cm x 30 cm (3 in.x 12in)
(b) 2.5cm x 38 cm (1 in.x 15 in.)
(c) 15 cm x 25 cm (6 in. x 10 in.)
- A pencil, ruler, scissors, cello tape.
Square Shaped Box
1. Mark
the cardboard strip (a) into four sections, each 7.5 cm (3 in.) wide.
Fold the marked sections into a box shape and hold it with
tape. |
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2. To make a bottom piece, place the box onto the large
piece of cardboard strip (c) and trace around the edge. Cut out the
shape. Tape the bottom in place. |
3. To make top or lid for the box, place the bottom piece cut out, again on the remaining cardboard strip (c) and mark with the pencil around. Cut just outside
the lines you drew, making a top shape slightly larger than the bottom
shape. |
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4. To make the sides of the top, place the top shape at the left
end of the long narrow strip (b). Draw a line along
the right side of the square. Mark four equal sections of the same size
on the strip and trim off the small section remaining at the end.
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5. Fold the marked sections into a square shape and tape the top to it.
Your box is ready. |
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Top
Triangle Shaped Box
Materials same as above.
1. Mark the cardboard
strip (a) into three sections, each 10 cm (4 in.) wide. Fold the marked
sections into a triangle and hold it with tape.
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2. To make a bottom piece, place the box onto the large piece of cardboard
strip (c) and trace
around the edge. Cut out the shape. Tape the bottom in place.
3. To make top for the box, place the bottom piece cut out, again
on the remaining cardboard strip (c) and mark with the pencil around.
Cut just outside the lines you drew, making a top shape slightly larger
than the bottom shape. |
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4. To make the sides of the lid, place the larger triangle at one end of the
long narrow strip (b). Mark the length of the
triangle. Mark three equal sections on the narrow strip and trim off the small
section remaining at the end. Fold each section into a triangle shape and tape the top to it. |
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Top
Circular Shaped Box
For a circular shaped box the cardboard should be lighter so as
to bend make a circle shape. Materials as same as given above.
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1. Bend the widest strip of light cardboard (a) into a circle or oval. Overlap
the ends about 2.5cm (1 in.) and tape in place. |
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2. To make a bottom, place the box onto the large piece of
cardboard (c), trace around the edge, cut out the shape and tape it in
place. |
3. For the sides of the lid, bend the narrow strip (b) around the
top of the box, overlap the ends, trim them slightly and tape in place.
The strip should easily slide up and down the outside of the box. |
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4. To make a top for the lid, place the lid strip on the cardboard (c), trace
around it, cut out the shape and tape it in place. |
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