Little boxes for graduations

Little boxes for graduations

With the arrival of graduations, you are surely already thinking about how to celebrate this special day. Although it is with friends or family, you probably want to give a few small reminders with a special reason. Here we propose some beautiful designs with a spark of originality, they are glass jars that you can recycle with graduation caps that will be made of cardboard. Making them will not be very complicated if you follow the steps that we indicate, and you can also fill them with the sweets you want. And do not forget that in this craft you have the way to learn to design a candy box shaped like a graduation cap ... another very original way to celebrate your events.

The materials that I have used are:

  • black cardboard (2 sheets of A4 type)
  • two glass jars
  • cold silicone
  • thick yellow thread to make the tassels
  • thick green thread to make a tassel
  • glue stick
  • gold glitter
  • ruler
  • pencil
  • scissors
  • candies or chocolates

You can see this craft step by step in the following video:

Glass jars with graduation caps

First step:

We are going to cut a long strip of black cardboard. It will be the one that is part of the lower area of ​​the hat. How is it going to be the same measure as the cover, we will take the same measurement as the entire circumference of the cap, but with an extra centimeter to be able to have margin and to be able to paste it. We also catch its entire width, which can be 3 to 4 cm. In my case I have chosen two pieces for two lids.

Second step:

We catch 1,5 cm width of the cardboard strip, We mark it with the pencil. We are going to make perpendicular cuts up to the mark. These trimmed chunks we will fold them in to form a base where it will be glued later, the square shape of the upper part of the hat. We glue the strip on the edge of the lid.

Third step:

We cut a square shape from cardboard. We will put glue stick on it and let glitter stick to its surface. We make a tassel for the hat, for this we will take thread and begin to roll it about 7 or eight times in a length of about 8 cm. To make the tassels you can watch our video or enter this link. We cut a piece of thread and we will tie it in the middle of this row of threads. We fold the shape made with the threads in half, and all that remains is to join the tassel by wrapping the thread at the top to form the tassel.

Fourth step:

We put the threads that hang from the tassel through the middle of the square part that we have formed. We put glue on the lid to glue the top of the hat. With this we will have formed the hat, it only remains to fill the jars with candies or chocolates and place the lid.

To make the box shaped like a candy box

First step:

We cut a strip of 5,5 x 18 cm. We make a longitudinal mark along the 1,5 cm wide strip. We make cross cuts up to the mark we made to fold these cuts in. These small cutouts will be used to glue the top of the hat, as we have done in the other craft.

Second step:

We form the round part of the hat and glue its edges. If we observe that they cannot be glued well, we hold them until they are well joined. We cut a 9 x 9 cm square piece of cardboard. We make a tassel again and put it in the central part of the hat.

Third step:

How is it going to be a candy box? We just have to make another hat just like the previous one. In this case, it must be done by decreasing the measurements so that one hat can fit with another and form the box. For it we cut a 5,5 x 16 cm strip and a square of the same measurements. As the lower part of the box will be, it will not be necessary to make another tassel. We fill the bottom cap with candies and close it with the top cap.

Little boxes for graduations


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