Lunchbox

A couple of months ago BJ's soft sided lunchbox just shredded. It was one of those cheap plastic things from Wal-mart (like just about everything else! LOL)

I looked for a couple of weeks and couldn't find anything. It finally kicked the bucket and I needed to find something that weekend. We had an old Pokeman lunchbox that was just a spare. It was made of the hard plastic. No one really likes Pokeman in our family, it was just a cheap emergency replacement.

BJ is just wild over Furby's. The kid is Furby crazy!! Of course that's good when your child loves a craze after it has happened because you can find the things to collect at garage sales and DAV for cheap! :-)

Anyway, I made him a Furby lunch box.

I took some clip art of Furby's off the net. Then I cut them out and glued them on a piece of white paper that had been cut to the size of the lunchbox to make sure the entire Pokeman was covered.

I then glued the paper with Elmer's to the lunchbox and covered with contact paper. I trimmed the contact paper to size with a razor blade and put a bead of glue around the edge to "seal" it.

After all night it hadn't dried. So I set it in the sun to dry that day.

Well the glue never dried and then the clip art faded.

I started all over again and this time I did everything the same except I used glue made specifically for plastic. It worked perfectly!

It was a huge hit and then Elly wanted one. I made her a My Little Pony lunchbox the same way. It only cost me a few minutes worth of work and they had a custom lunchbox.

Tawra