DIY Makeup Vanity Valentine’s Box With Working Lights.
All for $10 or less.
One thing I have always loved is school projects. I know that most moms sigh when they see a note about another school project, but I get excited. I have loved them since I was in school myself, and the kids and I love being able to make things together. So when valentines started to roll back around this year, I knew we had to make some fun boxes. Now I know how busy life can be, and how hard it is to make time for this sort of thing, so I got started early so that I can give you a fast and simple tutorial to make your life easier.
My daughter loves all things girly so we decided to create a makeup vanity box. I got all of the items we used from the dollar tree and only spent around $10 for everything. It is my favorite place to get seasonal craft supplies. For the actual box, I recycled an air mattress box we had from replacing the mattress on our porch swing. Any box you have lying around will do.
Like I mentioned, I purchased everything you see here at the dollar tree so I only spent around $10.
Supplies you will need:
1 Box
Construction Paper
Wrapping Paper (Optional)
Letter Stickers
Hot Glue Gun
Fairy Lights
Stickers
A Mirror
A Canvas
Makeup Supplies
Batteries
First, I cut a hole in the box for the valentine cards to go in. Then I wrapped the box in some plain brown paper I already had. You can use construction paper for this if you would like.
Then, I glued pink paper to the canvas.
Next, I took apart the mirror, this came apart very easily.
I, then, glued the mirror to the paper covered canvas and glued the mirror frame back on.
Next, I cut off the paper on the backside of my box where I wanted to attach my canvas. I wanted to glue it directly to the box to avoid the paper tearing and it coming off.
Once I had glued the canvas part on, I cut strips of pink paper and glued them to each side to look like drawers.
After this, we stuck our letters and stickers on. If you buy these exact stickers I recommend gluing them. They weren’t very sticky.
Next I cut open the paper over the card slot I had earlier, and we trimmed it with decorations.
I let my daughter finish decorating and placing the makeup items where she wanted and I put batteries in the string lights.
The last step was just gluing the lights around the canvas and I also glued the battery back onto the backside of the canvas.
There you have it, a makeup vanity valentine’s box with working lights. The entire project start to finish took us about an hour. I hope this was helpful and if you try it out send me pictures of your boxes so we can see!
