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These little light wooden
boxes I purchased at Hobby Lobby for a dollar each. The broken tile makes
them heavy and more epensive feeling. The tile was glued on with a good
good glue. Be sure to put it on the top and bottom, else the lid will not
stay open.
The children enjoyed doing
these. The insides were painted with acrylic paint. One box has river
gravel glued onto it. You can get this for 1.00 a package. These came
out of our drive. After the glue has dried you can mix grout and put it
on with a pallette knife. Let the grout dry about 30 minutes or until it
is firm and then take a lightly dampened cloth and begin to wipe the grout
off the tile (or rocks). When this is well dried then put a heavy coat of
a good clear plastic on it. You can spray the box all over easier than
anything with this heavy plastic protector. You want to buy the one that
has a high gloss to it. There are all kinds of stones for sale. I used
the river rocks just to try to encourage the children to learn to save
their pennies.
The little box on the right
has no stones on it but is painted with two colors of acrylic paint. I
wanted these done this way so the children could learn to use painter's
tape to mark off their little design on top. You can see how attractive
the acrylic paint makes the inside of the box on the left.
It is all just for fun. To
see the plain little unpainted wooden boxes turned into something else is
always a pleasure for the kids (and myself).
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