Starting school is more fun with this home-made pencil case. You have everything you need at home anyway: a freezer bag with a zip fastener, magazines from the waste paper box and adhesive tape. A unique pencil case is created step by step.
The material
What you need:
1 freezer bag with zip fastener, size: 1 litre
Read magazines, brochures, wrapping paper, brown paper bag
Stamp and ink pad
Transparent adhesive tape
Colourful adhesive tape (I use fabric tape, washi tape also works)
stickers
Scissors
ruler
And this is how it's done:
Step 1: Fold a thicker piece of paper (A4) twice in height so that you have a strip of ten centimetres. Place this in the bag and close the zip fastener. The cover of a magazine works well for this. The paper helps to make the bag easier to stick on and also determines the height of the new pencil case. Then pick out interesting pages from the magazines and tear out three to four centimetre wide strips using the ruler. You can cut open the sides of the small carrier bag and also tear it into strips.
Step 2: Stamp or colour the empty paper strips as you wish.
Step 3: To decorate the case, you need three strips for each side. Simply try out which combination you like. You can also cut up the strips and stick exciting motifs next to each other.
Step 4: Place the bag in front of you and place the first strip about one centimetre below the seal. Then stick the paper onto the bag using the coloured adhesive strips. Prepare the next strip and stick it down again, this time using the transparent roll. Tip: This is best done in pairs.
Step 5: Before sticking on the last strip: cut off the bottom of the bag along its entire length. Simply cut along the piece of paper inside.
Step 6: Seal the bottom of the bag with transparent adhesive tape.
Step 7: Now stick on the second side and carefully cut off the excess strips at the sides. Tape off the side edges.
Step 8: Now decorate the case with stickers. And what do you do with the remaining strips of paper? A second case, of course!
Natalie wishes you lots of fun crafting!
Natalie Kramer is an architect and shows cool things that parents can make together with their children on her blog www.schaeresteipapier.ch. She lives in Zurich with her husband and son (aged 12).
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