How to Make a Cube Using Paper

Video Transcript

"For this clip, we're going to make a cube out of paper. For this clip you will need some card, a square to use for a pattern, some scissors, a pen and some glue. So I found something that's got a nice square on it and I'm going to put it right in the middle on my piece of card. Hold it very carefully and draw around all four sides. One, two, three, four. Lift the pattern up and place it one up. Make sure the corners match the corners of the first square and draw around it again. And then put it underneath the first square and draw around it again with the corners matching. Now put it at the side of the first square and draw around again matching the corners to the first corners and then place it at the last side that we haven't done yet, corners matching corners and off we go again. Now then there's one more to do and it can go here. Match it up very, very carefully so that the lines going along all match up. Lift it off and you've made a kind of cross. Match all the bits up. Now then this is the difficult that we have to add on. A little flap here, go around the cross, a flap there, around the cross and a flap there, around the cross and a flap there. And on the last bit, the extra bit, I'm going to put the flap there. Now this is a fiddley cutout so you might need a little bit of help. Hold it up and hold it clear so you can see what you are doing. Make nice firm cuts all the way around your cross and include the flaps as you go, that's very important or you'll have nothing to put your glue on. As a flap come around, nicely around the corner and straight down to the next flap, around that little one. This is a fiddley bit when you have to get into that corner. Out we go on the side. Across at right angles. These are another flap it's like a racetrack this. Into that, out again and we're nearly all the way around. Down to that flap, include that and out again. So now we've got the cross with the added flaps. And this is where we start off folding. Each fold line must go exactly on the lines that you've drawn. One, open it out again, fold that one in, make sure it's on the fold line, out again. That one goes down on that fold line and out again, that one comes down on that fold line and out again. Now this is the extra long bit isn't it? There's a fold line halfway along it, so make sure you fold it in the right place and it folds onto itself. Now the flaps, they've got to fold down along their lines. That's where the glue is going to go. And the last one. So we've got everything ready, all I've got to do is fold them up to meet each other and the flaps can go on the outside or the inside, that's up to you. That's making the cube and there's the lid and there's a flap on the lid so that means it folds down and that'll need gluing. So get your glue and put it on the flaps. I am going to put my flaps on the outside just so that you can see what they're doing. Each flap needs a bit of glue adding. Around we go. And again, that's four. Fold them up and as you put the flap on the outside, just hold it very firmly for a few seconds to make sure it stuck and the same with the next one. Give it a really good firm push and the same with the next one. I've got a finger inside and a thumb on the outside giving it a squeeze and that should help it to stick. And the same with that finger on the inside, the one on the outside give it a squeeze. And you can use it as a box like that or you can stick down the last flap. And when you've got your cube assembled, you can decide how to decorate it. I'm just going to use my felt tipped pen and do some funny faces on each side. Here's a face on here with a squiggle, a happy face. Give it a bit of hair. Here's another side I can use. I wonder how many sides there are altogether? I could put numbers on them and count them couldn't I? So that one would be one, here's two, here's another side three, I think I'll put a number on this one, a nice big number four. I still haven't used this on, five. Do you think I've finished now? Oh dear, we've missed one, around here, number six. I'll turn number six into a funny face. There. And that's how to make a paper cube."