Chest of Santa Claus with their own hands. How to make a New Year's chest with your own hands from cardboard?

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Do you want to surprise the kids with an unusual package of New Year's surprises? Read the recommendations below and you can easily make a beautiful DIY gift box. The children will love that Santa Claus brought them such a fabulous chest. Create an atmosphere of magic at home or at a children's party.

Which size to choose

A do-it-yourself New Year's chest can be made as a souvenir, for example, in the form of a keychain or a magnet, as well as directly in the form of a functional thing intended for packing or storing 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 an interior decoration option 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 makedo-it-yourself cardboard chests, you will need the following:

• cardboard;
• template;
• drawing tools (pencil, ruler, eraser, square, compasses);
• scissors or knife (depending on the size of the object being made);
• glue or thread with an awl to connect elements;
• decor (textured paper, fabric, braid, lace, sequins, beads, beads, etc.).

As you can see, everything you need for work can be found at home!

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

If you have a finished product, for example, a package from a sweet gift, you can use it as a blank.

To do this, glue the seams and lay out the cardboard chest to a flat part. Place the stencil on cardboard and trace around the outline. If you need to make a smaller or larger chest with your own hands, it is enough to proportionally change the size of your scheme. Another way is to find a template on the Internet, print it to the desired scale and also circle it.

Whatever version of the template you choose, the steps for creating the chest itself will be as follows:

1. So, before you is a contour blank, which you transferred to the cardboard for the chest in any way. Cut it out with a knife or scissors.
2. Draw along the fold lines with a sharp, but not cutting object, such as a knitting needle or a non-writing ballpoint pen, or make small indentations or cuts in the form of a dotted line. This stageallows you to gently bend thick cardboard without material jams.
3. Fold the flat reamer into a three-dimensional design and glue all seams.
4. The next step will be decoration. By the way, some elements should be attached before assembly, for example, fabric, if you are going to fit the chest with it.

How to draw a sweep yourself

If you decide to make a chest with your own hands, but there is no template, you can create it completely yourself. 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 a bottom rectangle of the required size on cardboard, and on each side another rectangle that will form the walls of the product. Don't forget to make gluing allowances. If it’s difficult for you to completely imagine a chest in the form of a flat diagram, take a regular box and unfold it. Use it as a reference for the bottom of the item.

How to make a lid

If you decide to make a chest of Santa Claus with your own hands, drawing a pattern yourself, you will have to work a little on the lid of the product.

For the first time, you can create it as a separate part, which is glued to the box base. Work like this:

1. Draw two halves of a circle with a diameter that matches the width of the lid (or base-box).
2. Swipe aroundworkpieces of a circle of a larger diameter. These will be the gluing allowances.
3. Cut out the resulting two semicircles and make cuts along 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: you need to measure the perimeter of the arc of the resulting semicircle (without allowances) and add to them the distance for gluing to the base (on the back) and the allowance for the front part so that the lid overlaps.
5. Draw another rectangle the same size as the bottom. Don't forget the gluing allowance as well.
6. Cut out all prepared pieces.
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 don’t understand at all how to assemble a volumetric box from a flat scheme, where to make allowances, and there is no ready-made template, you can use this method of work, where glue is only needed to decorate the product.

Work as follows:

1. Draw two identical rectangles for the base of the box and the lid.
2. Make two identical parts of the side parts of the base (the walls of the chest).
3. Make two half circles for the lid, and a large rectangle for making an arcuate surface. Determine the dimensions yourself, depending on what kind of chest you are making.
4. Cut out all blanks. Decorate them with fabric, paint or design paper on thisstage.
5. Make holes along those sides of the parts that will be connected to neighboring ones with an awl or a large needle at a distance of 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). Adjacent parts must have the same number of holes at an equal distance.
6. Take the threads to match the future chest or contrast and use a crochet hook or needle to connect the details of the product. The same can be done even with decorative braid or a narrow satin ribbon, only the holes will need to be made larger in diameter.

In this way, even those who find it difficult to understand the construction of drawings of boxes can make Santa Claus's chest with their own hands. The only drawback of this method is that it will take a lot of time to make holes around the perimeter of the blanks and sew or tie them with threads.

Product decoration

So, you have seen that you can make do-it-yourself cardboard chests in different ways, and if you use a non-decorative base material, it is easy to cover it with a cloth or beautiful paper. If the product sticks together, then 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 sewing together elements, you need to cover it with a cloth first to pierce holes in all layers at once. In addition to fabric and paper, the following decoration methods are suitable:

• glue a pattern ofsequins;
• lay out a pattern of beads in the form of frosty monograms;
• use decoupage technique instead of fabric wrapping;
• apply voluminous embellishments with satin ribbons, quilling, faux snow, snowflake appliqués and other themed objects.

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