On the eve of the New Year holidays, most of our compatriots care about the idea that you need to give a lot of gifts to your loved ones. And since there are many of them, the desire to save a little becomes logical. One way is to make the packaging yourself. Therefore, you have to think about how to make a cardboard box with your own hands. The process of creating such crafts from thick paper or cardboard is quite simple, and usually it does not cause problems. But it is much more pleasant to give a gift if at least something is done in it with your own hands.
Materials and Tools
Having decided how to make a cardboard box with your own hands, you need to prepare all the necessary materials and tools. Here is a list of them.
- Cardboard.
- A simple pencil.
- Scissors.
- Eraser for erasing a pencil.
- Ruler.
- Glue (e.g. PVA).
- Scotch.
Problems with all this should not arise. Everyone must have these items at home. If something is missing, you will have to go to the nearest stationery store and buy the missing one.
Markup
Next, outlining how to make a cardboard box with your own hands, you need to mark the surface of the cardboard with a simple pencil and ruler. If necessary, it can be corrected with an elastic band. Immediately make the base of the box. To do this, draw a square or rectangle of the required size. It should be located in the center so that the rest of our box can fit without problems. Four sides of the package are adjacent to it along the entire perimeter. It can be either rectangles or squares. All that matters is that they are all the same size. Then, from the remaining three sides, the right and left parts of the future packaging are outlined with trapeziums. The slope at their edges should be 45 degrees. At the end we finish the cover. It is adjacent to either the upper or the lower side. After that, our part will be ready and you need to proceed to the next stage - assembly.
Make a box
We got a pattern of cardboard boxes, it remains only to carefully cut it. It should be a kind of cross. At the next stage, we make a cardboard box using glue and adhesive tape. We bend the workpiece at right angles along internal lines. On the surface of the trapezoid glue is applied in stages, and the sides are interconnected. For greater reliability, the ribs obtained are additionally fixed in small pieces of adhesive tape. Next, let the glue dry. Then we put the gift in the package and close it on top. The lid can be fixed with all the same glue or tape. Then (if necessary) we arrange the received gift wrapped. To do this, you can wrap it with wallpaper or colored paper, glue various decorating elements (flowers, for example), wrap it with ropes. In general, we give the packaging the look that we consider necessary.
Conclusion
This material described how to make a cardboard box with your own hands in the most simple way. Gift wrapping was chosen as an example. Surprise your dear people and invest in them a piece of your soul!