I was cleaning my shelf last week when i found a lot of printed papers which were no longer needed. Many of them were printed only on one side so the other side was blank. So i thought instead of throwing it how about recycling it by using it as reminder notes. I folded the papers almost 6times to get small rectangular sheets almost the size of sticky notes. Sticky notes cover my fridge and usually once i remove one i keep the set somewhere and take a lot of time to find it. So i decided to make a small storage box out of popsicle sticks to store the notes and make it fun by giving it a little twist.
Lets get started. You need the following items:
1. Popsicle Sticks
2. Sticky notes or small set of paper
3. Color paper
4. Paper clip
5. Glue gun
1. Make a box of the size of your Popsicle sticks by following the steps as shown in my post about Fancy Box using Popsicle Sticks.
2. Cover the gap by sticking Popsicle sticks on the base of one end.
3. Now for my twist. My storage box will have a covering lid which will be in the shape of an apple. So to make it a bit more interesting i painted black seeds on the base of the box.
4. If you are storing plain paper then you need some way to make the note stick. So glue a paper clip on the second gap from the top as shown. This is where you will clip the notes.
5.Next step is to make the apple covering. Take a red color paper and cut a circle from it. make sure that the circle covers the entire box. Cut leaves from a green paper.
6. Fold the red circle in half and cut through the line in the middle.
7. Slide a Popsicle stick in the first gap from the top of the box until you reach to the middle.Glue only on the part where you see wavy line on the stick which is just the top half of the stick.
8. To make sure that the Popsicle stick does not wobble too much glue to small sticks to its size. We just want to make sure that it does not slide sideways.
9. Take the top half of the apple and stick it to where the glue is put on the Popsicle stick. Do not put glue any where else since we want this part to slide up and down the box.
10. Now stick the lower half of the apple. Make sure to put glue all around this part.
11. Now if you pull the Popsicle Stick up the upper half will open to reveal the box.
12. You can keep this on your desk, study table or near your phone. I decided to keep mine on the fridge. For this i stuck a magnet on the back of the box. That's it, just place it on the fridge and put all your notes in it. Need to pay the phone bill, write it down and put it on the paper clip and make sure the lid is open. Since it so fun to look at i tend to keep seeing my notes more often than before now.
You can try different things like a vegetable or a fish. We made a fish, well i think it looks more like a shark. I gave the Popsicle stick box a diamond shape this time and covered it with a shark. I pasted the base of the shark in the same way as it was done for the apple. For the top part first stick a Popsicle stick at the end and then use a push pin to put this part in place as shown below.
Hope you enjoy making this craft as much as i did. Do try this fun craft and let me know how it went.
Lets get started. You need the following items:
1. Popsicle Sticks
2. Sticky notes or small set of paper
3. Color paper
4. Paper clip
5. Glue gun
1. Make a box of the size of your Popsicle sticks by following the steps as shown in my post about Fancy Box using Popsicle Sticks.
2. Cover the gap by sticking Popsicle sticks on the base of one end.
3. Now for my twist. My storage box will have a covering lid which will be in the shape of an apple. So to make it a bit more interesting i painted black seeds on the base of the box.
4. If you are storing plain paper then you need some way to make the note stick. So glue a paper clip on the second gap from the top as shown. This is where you will clip the notes.
5.Next step is to make the apple covering. Take a red color paper and cut a circle from it. make sure that the circle covers the entire box. Cut leaves from a green paper.
6. Fold the red circle in half and cut through the line in the middle.
7. Slide a Popsicle stick in the first gap from the top of the box until you reach to the middle.Glue only on the part where you see wavy line on the stick which is just the top half of the stick.
8. To make sure that the Popsicle stick does not wobble too much glue to small sticks to its size. We just want to make sure that it does not slide sideways.
9. Take the top half of the apple and stick it to where the glue is put on the Popsicle stick. Do not put glue any where else since we want this part to slide up and down the box.
10. Now stick the lower half of the apple. Make sure to put glue all around this part.
11. Now if you pull the Popsicle Stick up the upper half will open to reveal the box.
12. You can keep this on your desk, study table or near your phone. I decided to keep mine on the fridge. For this i stuck a magnet on the back of the box. That's it, just place it on the fridge and put all your notes in it. Need to pay the phone bill, write it down and put it on the paper clip and make sure the lid is open. Since it so fun to look at i tend to keep seeing my notes more often than before now.
You can try different things like a vegetable or a fish. We made a fish, well i think it looks more like a shark. I gave the Popsicle stick box a diamond shape this time and covered it with a shark. I pasted the base of the shark in the same way as it was done for the apple. For the top part first stick a Popsicle stick at the end and then use a push pin to put this part in place as shown below.
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