Crafts from shoeboxes: 17 ideas, what can be done?

What can you make from old empty boxes?shoes or from under the sweets that were left in the house?  Let's use them and make practical storage crafts. We offer you ideas and master classes on how to decorate and decorate boxes with your own hands, how to make an organizer, box, shelves and other necessary things for storing various small items.The content of the article:

Jewelry box

If you still have a beautiful box thatIt’s a pity to throw it away, then put fabric rollers in it and you’ll get an excellent box for storing jewelry.  TIP: it’s better to make rollers from a soft material, like felt or flannel 

Picnic box

From large or medium shoe boxes, you canmake a charming and very convenient picnic box that will be a great replacement for a standard basket. Decorate the box with decoupage or simply glue the fabric.

• A shoe box can be decorated with a cloth or colored paper using PVA glue,
• make pens out of braid and decorate as you like.

Jewelry Organizer

The lid from the box can be as useful as the box itself. For example, it can be used as a jewelry holder.  To make such an original thing, you need:

to cover the lid from under the shoe box with sacking,

then attach it to the wall,

fasten with nails through the cardboard, on which bracelets, chains and other ornaments will be hung.

 Gift boxes

From a beautiful gift box you can makea very small box for small things. For example, pendants or chains.  Cutting patterns and templates — you can look at the photo. No need to glue. Just fold it.

Organizer for pens and pencils

Typically cardboard rolls from the toiletpapers are a very useless thing and can only be thrown into the trash. However, using a cardboard box and several of these rolls, you can make a wonderful stand for pencils and pens with your own hands. Such an organizer will become a very convenient thing, and its creation will only take a few minutes.

• For the manufacture of such an organizer, we need a small cardboard box, we can take it from the shoes and paste it with colored paper or decorate it in every way with ribbons, bows, stickers.
• Put cardboard rolls tightly in a box or glue them together for greater convenience, which will allow sorting pens, pencils and other items according to their intended purpose.

Pictures or panels on the wall

An ordinary shoe or candy box lid can be turned into a real work of art that looks like a real artistic canvas or

To do this, it is enough to glue the cover with decorative paper or white paper and draw a pattern yourself.

Then just hang the lid on a nail in the wall and you can admire this piece.

How else is it possible?

Decorative wall shelves

If you want, then a shoe box is perfect for this.

• You can paint or paste the inside of it with colored paper and glue the box to the wall with Moment glue or liquid nails.
• Inside the box, install the desired decor, but it should not be heavy, so as not to pull the box down.

 Cardboard furniture

Gift and packaging boxes are great.a source of  cardboard that can be used to create furniture such as a shoe rack, cabinet or laptop table. We have a separate article dedicated to this —  10 ways

Puzzle toy for a child

An excellent budget toy for children, for example from the front of a candy box.

 We transfer the puzzle diagram onto cardboard. Better through carbon paper

 Let's cut it out! Of course it takes a long time, but we can involve the whole family

 Put it together and enjoy it together!

Frame for photos on the wall

Cut out the frame to the size of the photo and decorate the cardboard as you wish.  Beautifully covered with fabric or gift paper!  You can also decorate with beads or flowers.

Volume letters out of the box

Boxes will come in handy for crafts of three-dimensional letters or numbers, for example, for a birthday or other holiday. Therefore, it is worth saving them!

Charging station for phones

A shoebox makes a great compact phone charging station. To do this you need:

just cut holes in one wall of the box and secure them with special metal labels that you can buy at any hardware store.

Place the power supply inside the box and attach the box to the wall.

When you need to charge the phone, it will be enough to get a cord through the hole. Thus, the wires will be in order, and at the same time have an aesthetic appearance.

Storage Basket

To create an imitation of real wickerbaskets, it will be enough to glue the shoe box with a rope turn to turn, you can use ordinary PVA glue for this. Inside, you can sew a bag of white soft fabric the size of the box, so you can very easily make with your own hands a very cute decorative basket for storing small items, which will be in no way inferior to a real wicker basket.    

Storage box

Shoe boxes are an excellent material for storing various things; in order for them to have an original and attractive appearance on storage shelves, they are quite easy to transform.

• To do this, they just need to paste over a satin card using PVA glue.
• At the end of the box you can stick a sign with the signature of what is stored in this box, it will simplify the search for the right thing.

 5 master classes

 Organizer for seamstress

A perfect gift for a seamstress or just foryourself — will organize convenient storage of threads and spools! If you place the nails and fix them with silicone glue — you will definitely see which thread is which!

Mini file

If you have a collection of stickers, stamps, or other small items, a shoe box is a great place to store them.

First you need to pick a box of a suitable size and glue it with colored paper, so it will get a beautiful appearance.

Cut sheets of paper to the size of the box and sign the names of what will be stored in the box, then place these sheets between the corresponding things.

This way you don't have to go through the entire contents of the box to find the item you need.

Chalk drawing board

It's very easy to use shoe box lids.make a mini chalk board. To do this, paint the lids with black acrylic paint and you have mini chalkboards that are great fun for kids.And also such boards can be used assigns at a large event, or they can also be used as large price tags. In order to change the inscription, you just need to erase the chalk and write a new one again.  Detailed

Making a cardboard children's table

A small safe table is ideal for children - there are no sharp corners, no toxic paints, and most importantly, you can easily make it yourself without spending a lot of money.For the cardboard table we will need:

• Cardboard sheets can be cut from suitable boxes - 5 pieces, 50 cm;
• Cardboard sleeves - 4 pieces;
• Double-sided tape / PVA glue;
• Scissors / NDK (cardboard knife);
• Self-adhesive colored paper;
• The pencil is simple.

We take 4 cardboard sheets and draw a pencil around the bushings closer to the corners, then cut out holes equal to the diameter of the existing bushings. The main thing is that the holes coincide with each other on all 4 sheets.Take the bushings and the remaining sheet of cardboard.If you have one sleeve and it’s long, measure out 4 equal lengths and cut it.  If there are no such cardboard sleeves — Take toilet paper tubes Glue together 4 sheets with holes. You can use PVA glue, but it can soften the cardboard, so it would be better to glue it with double-sided tape. To be safe, cover the entire sheet with tape, not just the edges.

• When gluing sheets with glue, wait until the PVA dries, if you used scotch tape, you can immediately insert the cardboard sleeves into the holes.

• Glue on top of the table the remaining cardboard sheet. This will not allow the sleeves to move.
• Using self-adhesive colored paper or paints, you can decorate the resulting table yourself or with the help of your child. The table is almost ready!

As you can see, there is nothing complicated to makethere is no table, but you will get the thing you need, and as a nice bonus - if you involve your child in the work, he will be endlessly happy for the opportunity to do something interesting and useful with his parent! As you can see, you can very easily make many useful and interesting things for your home from cardboard shoe boxes.

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