Santa Clause's own chest. How to make a New Year's box with your own hands made of cardboard?

Want to surprise the kids with unusual packaging of New Year's surprises? Read the recommendations below and you will easily make a beautiful chest with your own hands for gifts. The guys will really like that Santa Claus brought them such a fabulous chest. Create an atmosphere of magic at home or at a children's party.

How to choose the size of the product

New Year's chest with their own hands can be made as a souvenir, for example, in the form of a keyring or a magnet, and also directly as a functional thing designed to pack or store gifts from Santa Claus. In such a chest, the size of an ordinary gift box, it is easy to pack sweets, small toys and put under the Christmas tree at home for your baby. If you need a variant of interior decoration for a festive event in a kindergarten, school or other organization, you will have to work hard and make a product the size of a box.

Tools and materials

To make boxes of cardboard with their own hands, you will need the following:

• cardboard;
• template;
• Drawing tools (pencil, ruler, eraser, square, compasses);
• Scissors or a knife (depending on the size of the object being manufactured);
• Adhesive or thread with an awl to connect the elements;
• Decor (textured paper, fabric, braid, lace, sequins, beads, beads, etc.).

As you can see, everything necessary for work will be at home!

How to make a magic chest with your own hands according to the template

If you have a finished product, for example, packing from a sweet gift, you can use it as a preparation. To do this, spread the seams and spread the cardboard box to a flat part. Put the stencil on the cardboard and circle it. If you need to make a chest with your own hands of a smaller or larger size, it is enough to proportionally change the size of your circuit. Another way is to find a template on the Internet, print it on the right scale and also circle it.
Whichever version of the template you choose, the steps of creating the chest itself will be as follows:

1. So, in front of you is a contour blank, which you transferred to the chestboard in any way. Cut it with a knife or scissors.
2. Draw along the fold lines with a sharp but not cutting object, for example, a spoke or a non-writing ballpoint pen, or make small indentations or incisions in the form of a dotted line. This step will allow you to gently bend the dense cardboard without any clutter of material.
3. Fold the flat sweep into a three-dimensional structure and glue all the seams.
4. The next stage will be decorating. By the way, some elements are worth attaching to the assembly, for example, fabric, if you are going to wrap it around the chest.

How to draw a scan yourself

If you decide to make a chest yourself, but there is no template, you can create it completely independently. In fact, the object is a rectangular box with a hinged lid, the end parts of which are made in the form of semicircles. To do this, you will need to draw on the cardboard a rectangle of the bottom of the required size, and on each side along the rectangle that will form the walls of the product. Do not forget to make allowances for gluing. If you completely imagine yourself a box in the form of a flat circuit, it's hard for you, take the usual box and unfold it. Use it as a sample of the bottom of the product.

How to make the lid

If you decide to make a Santa Claus treasure yourself, drawing a pattern yourself, you will have to work a little over the cover of the product.
For the first time you can create it in the form of a separate part, which is glued to the base-box. Work like this:

1. Draw two halves of a circle of this diameter, which corresponds to the width of the lid (or base-box).
2. Swipe a circle around the blanks with a larger diameter. This will be allowances for gluing.
3. Cut out the two semicircles obtained and make cuts on the allowances and bend them.
4. Draw a rectangle with a width equal to the long side of the base-box. The length will be somewhat more difficult to determine: it is necessary to measure the perimeter of the arc of the resulting semicircle (without allowances) and add to them the distance to the gluing with the base (rear) and the allowance for the front part so that the lid is overlapped.
5. Draw another rectangle equal to the size of the bottom. Do not forget also about the allowances for gluing.
6. Cut out all the prepared parts.
7. Glue the elements into a three-dimensional structure and attach to the base.

How to make a chest with your own hands without glue

If you do not understand how to collect a three-dimensional box from a flat circuit, where to make allowances, and there is no ready-made template, you can use this method of work, where glue is required only for decorating the product. Work as follows:

1. Draw two identical rectangles for the bottom of the box and the lid.
2. Make two identical parts of the side parts of the base (the chest wall).
3. Perform two semicircles for the lid, as well as a large rectangle for making the arcuate surface. Dimensions determine independently, depending on what you do the chest.
4. Cut out all the blanks. Decorate them with a cloth, paint or design paper at this stage.
5. Do along the sides of the parts that will be connected to the adjacent ones, holes with an awl or a large needle a few millimeters from the edge so that the workpiece does not tear (the distance from the edge depends on the thickness of the cardboard). In the neighboring parts there should be the same number of holes at equal distances.
6. Take the threads in the tone of the future chest or contrasting and use a crochet hook or needle to connect the details of the product. The same can be done even with the help of decorative braid or a narrow satin ribbon, only the hole will need to make a larger diameter.

In this way, the Santa Claus's chest can be made even by someone who finds it difficult to understand the construction of drawings of boxes. The only drawback of this method is that it takes a lot of time to make holes around the perimeter of the workpieces and to sew or sew them together.

Decoration

So, you saw that you can make chests from cardboard in your own hands in different ways, while using non-decorative base material, it is easy to close it with a cloth or a beautiful paper. If the product is glued, then the decoration can be performed both before this stage and at the end of the work. If you make a New Year's chest with your own hands by stitching the elements, you need to tighten the fabric first to pierce the holes in all layers at once. In addition to fabric and paper, such decoration methods are suitable:

• Glue along the perimeter of the sides a pattern of sequins;
• Lay a pattern of beads in the form of frost monograms;
• Use the technique of decoupage instead of tightening with a cloth;
• Apply volumetric ornaments from satin ribbons, quilling elements, artificial snow, appliques in the form of snowflakes and other thematic objects.

As you can see, the New Year's chest can be made in many ways. Choose your favorite design and decor. Create spectacular accessories for the holiday!