by Cecile Cinco
I’d like to start off by mentioning that the initial idea came from Lou as she showed how to make her magic box.
I did some revisions to make my own version, though. I made mine out of tetra packs and later tried it with acetate to make my new toy. I have no defined sizes because you can make any size you want as long as you work with squares. Also, since I work with whatever is available with me at the moment, I have to adjust.
There are 33 pictures I uploaded at picasaweb, just in case there are some missing to load here.
Top: my collection of empty tetra packs.
Top: cut off the ends.
Top: open up.
Top: make 6.
Top: make 4 1/4″ shorter (widthwise).
Top: fold triangle. cut off excess to make square.
Top: you need 4 of a kind (a bit smaller) and 2 of a kind (uncut sides).
Top: fold to the center after marking diagonals.
Top: another round of folding, making the corners touch the opposite fold mark.
Top: cutting marks. fold triangles.
Top: cut view.
Top: make fold marks on opposite ends.
Top: make fold mark on the other opposite ends.
Top: make flaps 1 and 2 overlap and lock with the triangle part.
Top: locked.
Top: do with the opposite.
Top: fold the little triangles and fold to lock.
Top: same as above.
Top: your box is done.
Top: bottom part.
Top: you have 4 small boxes and 2 slightly bigger ones, and body wrap. since i had no liquid glue, i used my excess glue gun stick and used a lighter to melt it since my glue gun is not working.
Top: assembled.
Top: top cover and bottom support.
Top: stackable sideways.
Top: stackable one over the other.
Top: to create my toy, I looked for my pony tail that had snapped and use the beads.
Top: this time I used acetate with 5 smaller boxes plus 2 slightly larger boxes to be the top cover and bottom support.
Top: holes burned through 4 of the smaller boxes.
Top: selected 60 beads.
Top: put the beads on the topmost.
Top: put the top cover and bottom support and used clear tape so they do not accidentally detach and scatter all the beads around.
Top: another view of the complete toy; the object of the game: start with all beads on top, let them all fall to the bottomest level, invert and repeat to have all beads in the original level; the player with the shortest time to finish is the winner.
Top: attached my logo.
October 11th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
I really like what you guys are promoting on here, recycling products is great not only for the environment its great fun too, I hope the world will start to take it more seriously!
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:15 am
What a truly fantastic idea, I always do my bit to reduce my carbon footprint and things like these are always going to help
August 6th, 2010 at 1:29 am
There are some great ideas here in terms of recycling I am a keen recycling man and love what you are doing here……
September 26th, 2011 at 6:08 pm
I need to recycle more often, thanks for great ideas, keep posting please
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