Materials and tools: 4 milk cartons, colored handmade paper, scissors, art knife, ruler, adhesive tape, crayons and glue.
Steps:
1. Take 1 milk carton, measure 7cm and 15cm from the bottom of the carton to the opening direction with a ruler, and draw lines at two places for marking. The excess part outside the 15cm line should be removed.
2. From the line of 7cm to the line of 15 cm, cut off three sides and keep one side as the cover.
3. The four corners of the box opening are cut to a depth of about 1cm.
4. The part outside the blue dotted line is folded down at right angles, and the part outside the red dotted line is cut off.
5. Cover the lid and fix it with adhesive tape.
6. A cube box is ready. This is part of a simple Rubik's Cube.
7. Make four boxes of the same size in the same way.
8. Put four boxes together to form a big cube, as shown in the figure. Tape connectors 1, 2 and 3. Pay attention to the specific location of the tape: seam 1 is on the front, and seams 2 and 3 are on the side. Please refer to the figure below.
9. Three cracks appeared after pasting. From this angle, the positions of cracks 2 and 3 can be clearly seen.
10, and then stick different colors of handmade paper on each side.
1 1. Cut the handmade paper without adhesive tape on the surface of the gap with a utility knife.
12, all cut. At this point, a simple small Rubik's cube is ready. You can flip the combination to make each face the same color.
13, you can also draw simple cartoon pictures of small animals on the same color surface, such as small fish, dogs and butterflies, which is more interesting to play.
14. Finally, reinforce the edge with adhesive tape to make the toy more durable.
15, simple self-made paper Rubik's cube.