Basket from a cereal box

Basket from a cereal box

If you like the process of thinking through projects and making improvements--or let's say, adding creative refinement, upgrades, or enlightenment-- this craft is for you. It's really the idea I'm putting out there: plus I got crazy obsessed with trying to recreate the basket I imagined. Not quite there yet, but a stepping stone to perfection. =)

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1. Opening out the cereal box.

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2. Cutting off the flaps of the cereal box.

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3. Using a paint brush to spread glue.

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4. Pasting on my chosen color of construction paper.

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5. Cutting off extra construction paper.

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6. After gluing on blue construction paper to the back of the yellow, cutting off the extra blue.

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7. Cutting the box covered with construction paper lengthwise into strips.

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9. After curving two strips into half moons [8], punching holes in the ends. 

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10.  Preparing two short strings with which to tie the half moon strips together.

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11. Tying the ends together.














12. Drawing the shape of the connected half moon strips onto the other half of the cereal box.

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13. After cutting out the drawn shape.

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14. After gluing on blue construction paper to the flip side, trimming off the extra.

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15. After gluing on yellow construction paper to the flip side, trimming off the extra.

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16. Folding one of the original strips into fourths.

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17. After cutting on the folds, marking where to put these short strips to later weave the longer ones through.

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18. Punching holes through the marks and at the ends of the short strips.

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19. Preparing four more ties.

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21. After placing the strips over their marks [20], tying the strips to the bottom of the basket.

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22. Putting each strip down in the order each will weave into the longer strip.

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23. Placing or weaving in the first (two) long (connected) strips.

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24. Preparing the next two long strips just like the first two.

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25. Tying together the second two long strips.

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26. Weaving in the second two long strips.

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27. After going through the same process for the third two long strips as for the first and second, looking closely at the alternate weave along one of the short strips.

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28. Using one of the box sides for the basket handle.

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29. After covering both sides of the box side with construction paper (yellow on front, blue on back), cutting it into three strips.

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30. After punching hole in both ends of the strips, alternating colors.














31. Punching holes (two) at either end of the basket to attach the handle to.

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32. Tying the three portions of the handle together with string.

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33. Bending the ends of the handle to follow the shape of the basket.

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34. Weaving the first handle end through to the basket bottom, and tying together.

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35. Weaving through and attaching the other handle end.












37. Beholding the basket.

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