For kids of all ages, an art project that engages them for a couple of screen-free hours is a great way to stimulate their restless minds and occupy their idle hands with creative work. Therefore, today we are unleashing your creativity by making a multi-coloured craft stick box.

This box can be used to store items on the desktop or as a jewellery box.

Let’s start:

Things you need:

1. A pack of thin multi-coloured craft sticks (you need roughly 35 sticks)

2. Glitter sheets: two (any colour)

3. Some stones or beads for decoration

4. Piece of cardboard to make the sides (walls) of the box

5. Hot glue

6. Scissors

7. Ruler

Directions:

1. Make two circles with a compass or any mould on the cardboard having the radius of 2 inches, then cut them out, pictures, 2 and 3.

2. Cut the circles from one side, leaving a little less than one inch from the edge, pictures 4 and 5.

3. Cut glitter sheet in the same shape, and paste on both sides of these semi-circles (wall or sides of the box), picture 6 and 7.

4. Take another glitter sheet, cut 21cm long and 9.5cm wide piece from it; then cut another piece that is 13cm long, 9.5cm wide, picture 8.

5. Now paste the craft sticks on both the pieces, pictures 9 and 10.

6. Paste the walls we made earlier with the hot glue on each side of the large craft-stick piece, pictures 11 and 12.

7. Using the hot glue, roll this craft-stick piece on the walls of the box, picture 13.

8. Take the smaller piece of craft-sticks, and paste it as a cover on the now opened box, pictures 14 and 15.

9. To make a lock on the box, make a loop from any string on the cover, and paste a large bead on the bottom side of the box while measuring the distance between loop and bead, picture 16.

Decorate the way you like.

The writer can be contacted at ithecraftman@gmail.com

Published in Dawn, Young World, February 18th, 2023