Locker Crafts

 

 You know when you feel like you are digging in your backpack at school and the next block is starting in less than a minute? Or when you are stuffing your things into your locker, only to see that the door is barely shutting? Here’s a solution! The next few crafts will make your locker much neater and organized.

 

     The crafts shown below are:

·       Pencil Holder

·       Locker Organizer

 

 The first craft will be pretty easy. I expect anybody to be able to do it. It’s the pencil holder. It will keep your pens and pencils within a handy distance.

  

 Materials:

·       1 cardboard box (the thin kind of cardboard!)

·       1 magnet

·       Things to decorate your box

 

 

1.    First, take a cardboard box and cut it half so it’s a rectangular prism.

2.   Then, decorate it the way you want.      

3.   After that, glue a magnet on the back.                      

 

The second craft will be harder. You’ll have to know how to sew. It’s almost the same as the pencil holder, except it can hold more and is more organized. It is a locker organizer.

 

       Materials:

·       1 rectangular piece of craft foam

·       Pencil

·       Needle

·       String

·       Needle Threader

·       Hole Puncher

·       Ribbon

*Adult supervision recommended for children 8 and younger

1.    Take the rectangular piece of craft foam (you pick the size and color!)

 

2.   Divide it into four sections. They don’t have to be equal. Make sure there is a small section on top. The top one is for later. (You can divide it into more than three parts, but let’s keep it simple for the example.)

 

 

 

3.   Thread the string into the needle and poke a hole from side B into the bottom left-hand corner and pull it across the craft foam. Poke another hole.

 

4.  On side B, poke another hole a bit higher than the previous one.

 

5.   Pull the string across side A again and keep doing the same thing until you reach the end of that section. For the last horizontal line, do it multiple times.

 

6.  Do the same for the vertical lines, but when you get to the thick line, DON’T POKE A HOLE! Loop a hole around it AND all the other strings! Go back to the hole you just poked, and then poke a hole to the side of it on the backside.

 

7.   Keep doing it until you finish.  Repeat steps 1-7 for other sections.

8.    To hang it in your locker, punch a hole in the top section (the one we said was for later) and thread in the ribbon. Tie a knot. Hang it on the suction cup.

 

VOILA!