I'm no longer only crapting on Fridays. Now that I've unleashed my craptiness, I'm just going to upload crapts any time I feel like it. Hope that's ok with you.
-Me
Ok, now that that's over with, let the crapt begin!
Last week, a mommy friend showed me Muji's super cute cardboard animals. She made herself a little giraffe and I was inspired to try making something too. I had a lot of fun making my cardboard animal trophy head awhile back. This time I ventured into new territory because I had to make my own template from scratch.
Eek.
So after many tries and fails, I finally came up with an animal that stands and a pattern that other people can use (although please note that it's far from perfect!)
So please meet Ella, my little cereal box elephant.
Isn't she cute?
And this is what little Ella looks like naked (aka sans paint):
If you'd like to try making your own elephant, you'll just need these few materials:
- free elephant template
- scissors
- pencil or pen
- cereal box
- paint or markers (optional)
Then, you simply
(1) Cut the shapes out.
(2) Trace the shapes onto a cereal box.
(3) Cut those shapes out again.
(4) Optional- Decorate the shapes
Note: If you paint the shapes, be sure to save a bit of the paint to fix up the scratch marks that will appear after you assemble the pieces. If you look carefully at Ella, you'll notice that there's a bit of white by her nose. That's where my paint chipped off. Or, maybe you could protect your paint by coating your pieces with modpodge? Not sure...
(5) Assemble the pieces
Note: I tried my best to make sure that the pattern works as is... however... it's not perfect. So you'll probably have to adjust the lengths and widths of the slits and various pieces, especially if you painted them.
(6) Fix up any little scratch marks that assembling
Thanks for reading this tutorial. I hope this little elephant project provides you and your family a bit of cheap and creative fun. If you try it out, I'd love to see your results. :)
