School Tissue Box

Are you looking for a simple kids craft? How about cutting out some chipboard shapes, which your child can then wrap with twine or yarn? We added these chipboard shapes to a school tissue box for each child.

I wanted to let my kids help decorate their teachers’ tissue boxes this year, so I cut some basic school shapes out of Silhouette chipboard and gave them some twine to wrap around the shapes. Once I attached the starting point with tape on the back of the shape, even my kindergartener could do it himself!

And of course, we couldn’t stop there. I cut out several critters and he wrapped them all, some with thicker yarn instead of twine.

The frog was his favorite. He asked me to leave the long string in place so he could make it jump around. I love it when my Silhouette CAMEO can help me encourage his imaginative play!

I do have older kids, too, so they were happy to help decorate their tissue boxes by wrapping their own chipboard shapes. I think you can tell which shapes were done by the kindergartner and which were done by the 6^th grader. But they all enjoyed adding their own crafty skills to the finished boxes!

Hint: Simple shapes work best for this technique; we tried wrapping some welded words but it took a long time. On curved shapes like the apple, a little extra tape or adhesive on the back to tack it down near the curved edges is helpful.

Let your child or grandchild pick out some interesting shapes from your Studio library or the Silhouette online store, and give this a try!

Happy crafting!

Shapes Used:

• 3D square tissue box with mats (#64921)
• School art supplies (#62762)
• A2 teacher chalkboard easel (#63016)
• Snail (#48564)
• 4 x 6 dinosaur card set (#53009)
• Seahorse & fish (#58887)
• Frog (#58382)

Find other kids crafts here and other ways to use Silhouette chipboard here.

This post originally appeared on the Silhouette America blog 9/19/14. This post may contain affiliate links. Your price is the same, but I may get a small commission if you use my links. Thanks for your support!