Article on how to make a casket

Souvenirs, made by yourself, will give you joy from the creative process of making and will become a worthy decoration of the house. If you do not know what to give to a friend for a holiday, then a thing made with one's own hands will warm the heart of an expensive person and will be absolutely unique. If you have children, then engage them in collective creativity. This will help you better understand the child and develop a creative bias in it. Start with the simple!

Study the materials on how to make a casket with your own hands. You can take a ready paper case and just decorate it. You can glue it on a pattern of cardboard and decorate it with the child. A fascinating world of creativity will give you and your children the most unforgettable moments! This also contributes to the development of fine motor skills, care and accuracy.

How to make a casket of wood

You can make the box yourself or use an old product as a workpiece, which must first be cleaned of varnish and paint, sanded and polished. How to make a casket yourself:

1. Take an ordinary rack, the width of which is the height of the walls of the product (you can use a casing of the appropriate size).
2. Do the cutting of the slats on the parts of which the casket will be made. If its length is 18 cm, then such parts need to be made two. Still need two side parts (length 10 cm). The corners of the joining sides should be made at 45 °. You can not cut corners for joints at 45⁰, but make them even, so that their connection is at 90.
3. Glue the sides together and cut out the base for the workpiece. It can be made wide, so that the edges at the bottom protrude under the walls of the casket - this is very beautiful and original.
4. All sides of the product can be pasted with oak or walnut veneer, it is sold in any construction shop.
5. The cover of the product is made, as well as the base.
6. On the side wall of the box, cut out the grooves to fasten the loops.
7. The cover also requires grooves.
8. Screw the hinges onto the screws and connect the lid to the casket.
9. How to make a casket beautiful and original? It is necessary to sandish all the irregularities and roughness with sandpaper, then cover it with varnish.
10. Inside the casket can be pasted with velvet.

How to make a jewelry box?

The casket can be equipped with a decorative lock and a mirror that can be glued to the lid. You can cut thin partitions that will separate the bottom of the box into compartments. On how to make a casket for storing rings and earrings, read below:

1. Twist a few rolls of velvet.
2. Lay them on the bottom of the box so that they fit snugly together. They can be fixed with a stapler and pasted into the bottom of the box.
3. Now you can store any decorations here. They will be fixed, and you can easily find them. Ornaments will not scratch, beat against each other.

The lid of the product can be decorated for every taste. For example, pasted it with flowers or beads, stones or cut out a jigsaw picture. It all depends on your imagination and free time!