1. Prepare tools and materials: first, collect some waste paper boxes, such as express boxes and packing boxes. In addition, you need to prepare basic hand tools such as scissors, glue, ruler, pencil and paint (optional).
2. Design: Draw the outline of the work you want to do on the carton. For example, you can try to make storage boxes, chairs, animal models and so on. If you are not sure what you think, you can refer to online tutorials or inspirational pictures.
3. Cutting: Cut the carton into the required shape along the design outline with scissors or blades. When cutting, please pay attention to keep the edges neat.
4. Assembly: Use glue to assemble the cut carton pieces into works. Ensure that the bond is firm, especially the load-bearing part.
5. Decoration (optional): If you want to add more color and interest to the work, you can decorate it with pigments, stickers or other decorative materials.
6. Completion: After the assembly and decoration are completed, the manual production of your carton is completed. Now, you can use this work to decorate your home, store things or give them to your friends and relatives as gifts.
The role of hand-made:
1. Improve the Zen ability of hands-on: Hand-making requires participants to do it themselves, which helps to cultivate good hands-on ability, improve hand-eye coordination and spatial imagination.
2. Cultivate patience and carefulness: Handmade processes are often complicated and need patience and carefulness to complete. By hand-making, people can exercise their patience and care, thus cultivating a calm character.
3. Stimulate creativity: In the process of manual production, participants can design works according to their own preferences and creativity, which is helpful to stimulate creativity and cultivate innovative consciousness.
4. Inheriting culture: Handmade is an important part of China traditional culture. By hand-making, we can inherit and carry forward the national culture, and let more people know and recognize China's rich historical and cultural heritage.
5. Enhance aesthetic ability: In the process of hand-making, participants need to match and choose colors, shapes and materials, which will help to enhance aesthetic ability and cultivate good aesthetics.
6. Enhance interpersonal communication: Handmade works can be given as gifts, which can narrow the distance between people and enhance interpersonal communication.