Boxing Day make: Get creative with your boxes
Have you got an old box after christmas that you were going to throw away? Why not try getting creative and turning it into something new and exciting!
Grown-ups: Here's some inspiration for you!
This car was made by sticking small boxes on the front to make the engine and then painted.
The doors and windows have been cut out of the flaps cut from the top of the box although you can draw these on rather than cut out the shapes.
The headlights are made from a cheese triangle box, both base and lid, covered in tin foil.
The reg plates are a small piece of card covered in yellow and white paper, you could paint them on instead.
The wheels are paper plates with a tin pie dish glued in the middle to look like a hood cap.
This theatre box has been made from a toy box that already has an open front with the cellophane taken out.
The box is painted gold and brown. To make it look special, the design on the front was painted with gold paint mixed with pva glue to make it a relief design.
The curtains are red tissue paper folded in a concertina style and taped either side of the stage with a piece of red tissue paper ¾ way down the curtain to make a tie back.
The background is a tree and house cut out of spare card and painted.
There are slots at either side the the box so you can stick characters on pieces of card and slide through the slots to create a performance on stage!
This monster head box is covered with different coloured tissue paper scrunched up and stick on in a pattern.
In this case it was orange with yellow spots but you can do any design depending on what colour tissue paper you have.
The eyes are made from half a polystyrene ball but you could use round yogurt pots or scrunched up white paper.
The spikes hair is just twisted pipe cleaners. You could also make hair with ripped up newspaper or old wrapping paper.
