My Jack renamed Capri-Suns pouch juices. Our household goes through A LOT of pouch juice especially during the holidays when we are traveling a bunch. The boxes that hold all of this pouch juice just happens to be a perfect size for a little house.
1. First open up then end flaps and side flap and flatten out the box.
2. Using a case knife or craft knife cut the box in half so that you have two long rectangles. You will cut through the side flap. The end flaps that you generally open the box with will run along the top or bottom of your long rectangles.
3. Turn the rectangles inside out so that the printed part is on the inside and hot glue it at the long side flap that you opened up to get it flat in the first place.
4. I used a large brownie box opened up and cut on the folds to make my roof. You can use any cardboard of similar weight to your pouch juice box. I just measured the end flaps (now the top) of the pouch juice square, cut the brownie box to size on either side of a fold and presto, roof.
5. Now glue on the roof. The side flaps are super helpful when it comes to gluing the roof in place.
6. All that is left was to set the house on a square cake base and you are ready for graham crackers, short bread cookies and lots and lots of candy.
The pouch juice boxes were recycled along with my brownie box and the cardboard cake bases were 4 for $2.50 at Hobby Lobby. In years past I've used recycled cardboard for those too, but I love that they are nice a white. Once you get the cutting done, assembly is a snap with some hot glue. And you don't have to worry about these falling to pieces once the kids get to decorating.
2. Using a case knife or craft knife cut the box in half so that you have two long rectangles. You will cut through the side flap. The end flaps that you generally open the box with will run along the top or bottom of your long rectangles.
3. Turn the rectangles inside out so that the printed part is on the inside and hot glue it at the long side flap that you opened up to get it flat in the first place.
4. I used a large brownie box opened up and cut on the folds to make my roof. You can use any cardboard of similar weight to your pouch juice box. I just measured the end flaps (now the top) of the pouch juice square, cut the brownie box to size on either side of a fold and presto, roof.
5. Now glue on the roof. The side flaps are super helpful when it comes to gluing the roof in place.
6. All that is left was to set the house on a square cake base and you are ready for graham crackers, short bread cookies and lots and lots of candy.
The pouch juice boxes were recycled along with my brownie box and the cardboard cake bases were 4 for $2.50 at Hobby Lobby. In years past I've used recycled cardboard for those too, but I love that they are nice a white. Once you get the cutting done, assembly is a snap with some hot glue. And you don't have to worry about these falling to pieces once the kids get to decorating.
These were our finished products. We may not end up winning any contests but I don't think anyone had more fun decorating them than we did.
Caution: Huge amounts of candy make it extremely difficult to get a picture of children sitting still. Note Baby A is the only one remotely in focus thanks to the fact she is still only drinking milk.
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