Hi, I have to make a pirates treasure chest (about 50cm x 40cm x50cm). Could anyone help in making one for me, tell me where I can buy one (I have looked on ebay and they are all really small!) or let me know the best way to go about making one.
2007-01-16 09:09:11 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Send home a note to the parents in your class (or if you're a H.S. teacher just tell the kids) we're looking for a chest, does anyone have one or do we have any handy parents out there who wouldn't mind whipping one up. They're super easy. You just need plywood, hinges and a nail gun. Good luck.
2007-01-16 09:16:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should just buy a big box with hinges, and decorate it to LOOK like a treasure chest.
Whatever box you choose, get pictures of chests you like and see what you can do. I know one feature that I usually see on treasure chests is the black sort of hinges...you can buy those old fashioned looking hinges, and stain the box to look dirty....get out a hammer and knick it up, put a big lock on it.....
if you CALL it a treasure chest and it has some sort of treasure in it...kids will use their imaginations. It doesnt have to be perfect!!
2007-01-16 09:14:08 · answer #2 · answered by Tiffany C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Phil you can just get a photo off of google images.... once you settle of which one, use a hot glue gun and put two layers of cardboard together for each side make sure that the grain, (stripes inside the cardboard) run opposite directions, reinforce the corners with a folded three inch flap running vertically the entire length of the seam in each corner. Be liberal with the glue as it is cheap if not hot glue then elmers wood glue will work and dry in about 20 minutes. To make the traditional curved trunk top again bend the cardboard along the stripes and fill in the ends with the appropiate eye lid shapes with two more of them supporting the inside of the lip evenly spaced apart. the easiest way to get it spiffy is to cover it with a cloth of your choice as paint runs chips and fades and paint on fake rivet heads along the seams you can also apply the same vertiacal seams on the outside of each corner and precut holes in it to look like nail holes or to make it real special cut bigger hole in the outer seams and expoxy marbles in the hles so that it look jewel like.. just remember to use a freezer or a coffin box as that cardboard is the thickest and the best , washer or dyer boxes will do as well..... good luck with it I know that teachers have zip for budgets so congrats on being innovative and willing to go the extra mile for your students oh yeah the hinges will be a piece of canvas folded in thirds along the longest measurement and then first glued to itself.... then when it dries fold it the long way again to make a crease then glue it in place to act as a long piano hinge on the back of the trunk.
2007-01-17 06:36:46 · answer #3 · answered by doc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you know anything, even the simpliest of an idea, of how to work with wood, you can make it yourself. It would not be difficult, but since you are looking at cm, you are obviously not sitting in Atlanta and if I made it, it would cost a fortune
2007-01-16 09:29:50 · answer #4 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume you mean the type with the bulging top, they sell those in Mexico all different sizes and maybe if you typed in on the web you might locate a store that sells them in the U.S.
2007-01-16 14:36:46 · answer #5 · answered by xyz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try ikea they might have something if not make one urself not that hard
2007-01-16 09:11:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
souvenoir and antique stores
2007-01-16 09:12:30 · answer #7 · answered by reifguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.ebay.co.uk the place to get them
2007-01-16 09:11:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋