Look What You Can Make with Boxes: Over 90 Pictured Crafts and Dozens of Other Ideas

DOCUMENT RESUME ED 436 435 SO 029 675 AUTHOR Siomades, Lorianne, Ed. TITLE Look What You Can Make with Boxes: Over 90 Pictured Crafts and Dozens of Other Ideas. 1st Edition. ISBN ISBN-1-56397-704-4 PUB DATE 1998-00-00 NOTE 51p.; Photographs by Hank Schneider. AVAILABLE FROM Boyds Mills Press, 815 Church Street, Honesdale, PA 18431 ($5.95). PUB TYPE Guides - Classroom Teacher (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Art Activities; Art Education; *Childrens Art; Creative Activities; Elementary Education; *Handicrafts; Motor Development IDENTIFIERS Ideas ABSTRACT This book offers a wide variety of easy-to-make crafts, including toys, games, and gifts, and each project begins with a box. The book provides directions, a materials list, and suggestions for setting aside a work area. The projects are illustrated with large full-color photographs and explained with simple step-by-step instructions. Containsa title index and a subject index. (BT) Reproductions supplied by EDRSare the best that can be made from the original document. Look What You Can Make With Over 90 Pictured Crafts and Dozens of Other Ideas .4111._ U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND EDUCAT AL RESOURCES INFORMATION DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS CENTER (ERIC) BEEN GRANTED BY Vr his document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it L_. Basler Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Points of view or opinions stated in this INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. N\Vg Edited by Lorianne Siomades BEST PYAVAILABLE 2 Look What You Can Make With Edited and designed by Lorianne Siomades Photographs by Hank Schneider Boyds Mills ?Tess Designer: Lorianne Siomades Production: Rachel Bakota Craftmakers: Yvette Boucher Nancy C. Duhaime Paulette Carlson Lorianne Siomades Contributors: Judy Burke James W. Perrin Jr. Jennifer Carling Kathy Ross Diane Cherkerzian Constance Sharp Laurie J. Edwards Lorianne Siomades Kathy Everett Sharon Dunn Umnik M. Mable Lunz Colleen Van Blaricom Carol McCall Hilda K. Watkins Beth Murray D.A. Woodliff Wanda Payne Copyright © 1998 by Boyds Mills Press All rights reserved Published by Bell Books Boyds Mills Press, Inc. A Highlights Company 815 Church Street Honesdale, Pennsylvania 18431 Printed in the United States of America Publisher Cataloging-in-Publication Data Look what you can make with boxes: over 90 pictured crafts and dozens of other ideas / edited by Lorianne Siomades ; photographs by Hank Schneider.lst. ed. [48]p. : Ill. ; cm. Summary : Toys, games and other ideas all from boxes. ISBN 1-56397-704-4 1. HandicraftJuvenile literature. 2. BoxesJuvenile literature. [1. Handicraft. 2. Boxes.] I. Siomades, Lorianne. II. Schneider, Hank, ill. III. Title. 745.54dc21 1998 AC CIP Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 97-76815 First edition, 1998 Book designed by Lorianne Siomades The text of this book is set in lOpt Avante Garde Demi, titles 43pt Gill Sans Extra Bold 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 4 @©N°H2 NErpWor This book is filled with fun, easy-to-make crafts, and eachone begins with a box. You'll find a wide variety of things to make, including toys, games, and gifts. Directions Work Area Materials Other Stuff Before you start each craft, read It's a good idea to keep your You'll need a lot of boxes, so When we show several similar the directions and look closely work area covered. Old start saving now. Ask friends and crafts, we'll often list numbered at the photograph, but newspapers, brown paper (from relatives to help. Keep your directions that apply to all of the rememberit's up to you to grocery bags), or old sheets craft-making supplies together, crafts, then specific directions make the crafts your own. If we work well. Also, protect your and before making a craft, for each craft. decorate a craft with markers, clothes by wearing a smock. A check the "You Will Need" list to but you want to use glitter paint big, old shirt does the job and make sure that you have Free painting tip: Sometimes and stickers, go for it. Feel free gives you room to move. Finally, everything. We often give boxes have a shiny coating, and to stray from our directions and remember to clean up when suggestions for what kind of box poster paint won't stick to them. invent new crafts. you've finished. works well for each craft. Also, Try mixing liquid soap with the since you'll need scissors and paint. It works for us. You could glue, tape, or a stapler for also use acrylic paints. almost every craft, we don't list these supplies. (We do list craft That's about all. So, find a bunch gluewhich is tackier than of boxes, select a craft that you regular gluewhen it helps to like, and have some fun. Before use it.) you know it, you'll be showing everyone what you made with boxes. .16' zn 4,"1. Set off to explore the wilderness. and keep your eyes open for tigers, hippos, and elephants! To Invent an Animal To Make the Lion To Make the Hippo You Will Need: Paint a rectangular box. Cut out Paint a square box. Glue on 1Paint a box or cover it with legs, a tail, and a head from foam-paper legs, a back, a tail, various small paper. foam paper. Glue them on. Add and a head. Add features with boxes details with markers and cut markers and cut paper. construction 2Cut out arms, legs, a tail, foam paper. paper and other details from paper. Glue them on. paints foam paper markers felt More Ideas Make an entire jungle scene with foam-paper rivers and waterfalls, papier-mâché hills, and box lions and turtles. Or, select a different climate and create the animals that live there. Try making a desert scene, an Arctic scene, or an ocean scene. t 6 .-.1Wd.g.4. Be on the lookout for all kinds of boxes, too. That's what you'll need to make these animals. To Make the Tiger To Make the Monkey To Make the Elephant To Make the Trees Paint a box. Glue on legs, a tail, Paint a box. Glue on cut-paper Paint a flat rectangular box. Cut Glue paper onto a rectangular and a head cut from paper and arms, legs, a tail, and a head. a body with legs on it from foam box. Cut palm branches and felt. Add details with markers. Add details with markers. paper. Wrap it around the box coconuts from paper and glue Glue on felt stripes. and glue the sides to the box. them to the top. Add a foam-paper trunk, ears, eyes, and toes. Add details with markers and cut paper. tirmAt.- 7 gEEMI/7"E Snap away the hours 1To make the lens, cut the with a handmade toy bottom inch from the paper cup. camera. Glue it to the box. 2To make the shutter button, glue on the plastic cap. Paint You Will Need: the camera. Add cut-paper Aaciatp- paper cup details. box (pudding) 3Braid yarn to make a neck I plastic cap strap. Glue the ends to the sides of the camera. paints construction More Ideas paper Draw and color your own yarn snapshots, and put them in an album. Use a larger box to make a toy video camera. Keep games, postcards, and mementos in this box, and follow your travel route on the map. You Will Need: extra map of your travel route box and lid More Ideas (shoes) 1Glue the map onto the box 2Glue a large button on a and lid. Put the part with your small button. Glue the small With a marker, trace your travel buttons travel route on the lid, if it fits. Cut button to the front of the box. route on the map. See how hole punch slits in two corners of the lid to Punch a hole in the lid. Tie yarn many nearby towns, lakes, and make a long tab. Glue the tab to rivers you can identify as you yarn through the hole. To close the the box. box, wrap the yarn behind the travel. button. Keep a journal of things you do and sights you see on your trip. 8 . s%; A4.- ,3`24!'4 xyP4ajoi 7C3 Take this backpack anywhereit can hold toys, treats, books, and anything else you can't leave home without. 1Cut the top from the box. Cut 2Cut out a piece of felt with a 3Cover small boxes with paper You Will Need: a V-shape in the front, and four V-shape on one edge to match and glue them onto the sides and horizontal slits in the backtwo front of your backpack. Leave large box the opening in the box. Glue the at the top, two at the bottom. back and sides of the felt to the the tops off the boxes so that you (cereal) Tape the bottom of the box box. Cut a buttonhole in the can carry items in them. To make paints closed. Paint the box. bottom of the V. Glue a button on straps, weave two long pieces of felt the box. ribbon through the slits in the back. Glue or tie the ends button together inside the box. small boxes construction paper thick ribbon More Ideas Pack a lunch, throw it in your backpack, and get permission to go on a hike and a picnic. Cover your backpack with aluminum foil and use it as part of an astronaut costume.

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