Here’s a quick little gift that I made for a five-year-old budding artist. I used a plain wooden box and filled it with drawing materials. Some of you long-time blog readers may remember the Craft Can. I definitely like giving art and craft supplies to kids. Here’s a blank template for the sketch box. The background color is in fact a bit different from the image above.
You can print the design on sticker paper or card stock and affix with spray adhesive. For the corners, I used a corner rounding punch (my favorite new craft supply). In the box I included a sketch pad, colored pencils, graphite pencils, a compass and protractor, letter stencils, a pencil sharpener and a small wooden figure model.
I was just thinking about your craft can this morning. Crazy!
FAB idea, a nephew’s birthday is coming up and now I have the perfect gift!
Thank you, thank you!
This is such a great idea! We gave our daughter, who turned 3 this month, an art box. It included crayons, markers, dry erase markers, rubber stamps and ink pad, stickers, scissors, coloring book, and drawing paper. She loves it and uses it every single day.
Love this! I agree, art supplies are always a fantastic gift for kids, and this is such a cute way to package them 🙂
Great idea! Thanks for sharing!
Amelia loves this gift and has spent time working with the art materials almost every day. Great idea!