Cereal Box Letters

NMPL Craft Rating: Intermediate (can be a challenge)

What you need:

• 1 Empty Cereal Box
• 1 letter template
• 1 Pair of Scissors
• 1 Roll of Tape
• Scrap fabric, yarn, paint, scrapbook paper of other material you to use to cover your letter and hot glue or other adhesive to make your embellishments stick.

Time needed to complete: 30- 60 minutes

Step One: Take your empty cereal box and open it up flat.

Step Two: Place you letter template on one large side of the cardboard and trace it. Flip it over and trace the mirror image on the other half of your cardboard.

*We made our letter template by using Word Art on Microsoft word. You can stretch your letter to be any size. Ours was made to fit nicely on an 8.5"x11" paper.

 

Step Three: Cut off the the two sides of your box and save them. We will be using them later to create our 3D letters.

Step Four: Cut out your letters.

*We used regular scissors to do this, but if you have a letter with a hole, like our P, you will need an X-acto knife to make your life easier. You could try to use scissors if you do not have a knife available, but it's not recommended. 

Step Five: Cut your box ends (that you put off the side earlier) in half. When you have finished you should have 4 strips of cardboard.

Step Six: Now for the tricky part. Take a strip of cardboard and start taping in onto the edge of your letter. This creates a wall around the letter. Once this is finished you will tape the other letter on the wall that you just created. Making your letter a 3D letter!



Step Seven: Now for the fun part. Pick the items you want to use to embellish your letter. Wrap it, Paint it, do whatever! We picked scrap fabric, that we tore into strips and yarn.

Step Eight: You are all finished! We created fabric flowers to embellish our letters. Look for a how-to on creating these great fabric flowers soon.