 Hi everybody, my name is Sheridan and today I'm going to show you how to actually construct your mini altar using the craft kit that you picked up at the library. If you weren't able to pick up one of the craft kits, all you need is a box about this size, maybe even a little bigger if you'd like, a tiny box and this one we actually cut in half. So just a small box, we cut it in half lengthwise so that it could work for us. We also are going to use five sheets of black construction paper, but if you have black wrapping paper or even, you know, paint, you could also paint the boxes. Tempera or acrylic would work, you just want to make sure to not paint them with a lot of paint because then the cardboard will get kind of soggy. You're also going to need some tape, a glue stick, a pencil to just mark the construction paper and some scissors. Okay, so let's go ahead and get started. We're going to do the little box second, so I'll put that off to the side. I've got my instructions here for how to assemble this thing. So what we're going to do is because this box is a little bit too tall for our liking and they're actually adjustable, if you look inside the box, you're going to see that there's markings. We're going to cut down to the first marking, okay? You may need an adult's help with this. You can either use scissors or an exacto blade if you have one lying around, but be sure to get an adult's help so that you don't cut yourself by accident, okay? So I'm going to cut down to the first line inside the box on all four sides. So that's one side. This is two sides. We're going to do three sides and the last side. It can be kind of tough to get your scissors all the way to the very end of the cut. So now I've got cuts on all four sides to the very first line on the inside of the box, okay? This construction might take a little while and that's okay. You know, you can do the first few steps and then take a break, have a sandwich, come back later, pause the video, rewind it even if you need to. That's all just fine because it's going to take a little bit and it might even take the whole family and that's great because you all are all spending time together, hanging out, talking, building your mini-altar and it's a good time, okay? Now that we've cut these four sides and made these four cuts, we're going to fold the flaps on the inside and the four cuts actually allowed us to fold the flap even further down than we could before and that's going to be good because we don't want our flap to be too tall, right? We want it to be kind of squat. So that's one flap. I'm going to fold in the other sides and now I have two flaps folded in here. I'm going to fold in one flap from this side and here I'm actually going to secure this flap with some tape so that that is nice and secure. So I'm going to put a piece of tape there in the middle and another little piece of tape on the other side here and now that's pretty much taped down and now we're going to fold this fourth flap all the way down and we're going to secure that with some tape as well so that it doesn't lift up, okay? So now we have the very base for our mini-altar. We have actually constructed one previously and as you can see this box is this one so we're building the bottom of the mini-altar and now we have to wrap this bad boy with black construction paper. Now this is kind of a technique that I developed yesterday. So we're going to take one sheet of our construction paper and our pencil and we're actually just going to measure the sides of the mini-altar to be able to wrap them appropriately, okay? So I'm going to take this side, I'm going to lay it down here and actually you know what? I'm going to take the long side of the box, I'm going to lay it down here and I'm going to measure so that it's, you can see that it's about half the width of the construction paper, right? If we cut it in half like this it's going to be about half the width and it's going to leave a little bit of overhang which is what we want. So let's cut this construction paper in half. Looks like I need a little more tape here too. So I'm going to fold this construction piece of paper in half and it doesn't have to be super, super exact but the more exact you are the nicer it'll look and you can fold it in half and then I'm going to cut it down the middle and this is what we're going to use to wrap the sides of the box. So now I have two pieces of block construction paper that I'm going to use for the sides of the box. The first thing we want to do is kind of measure them to be flush with the very bottom of the box which we can either leave like this or we can fold them in to be taped as well but we're going to leave like that and as you can see the black construction paper is hanging off the sides a tiny bit. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to fold one side over like that and kind of crease it. I'm going to use a little bit of tape to secure that side to the box and then just to get a nice make sure that this paper sticks I'm going to actually put some glue stick here before I tape the other side. So just a little bit of glue stick you don't need a ton you just kind of want the black paper to stick to the box. So as you can see I did a little bit of glue stick and we'll bring it over and we'll kind of run our fingers along the side of that to make sure that it kind of sticks and we'll secure this other end of the black construction paper to the box with a little tape. So we've done one side of the box five more to go. Now that we've got this side done we're going to do the same to this other side. So just like I did before I'm going to flip it on its side I'm going to take this black construction paper I'm going to lay it down so that it's nice and flush with the end of the box. I'm going to make sure that there's a little bit of overhang on both sides crease and then put a little tiny bit of tape on that side to secure it to the box. I'm going to flip this off put a tiny bit of glue stick along the side of the box to help the black construction paper stick to the box just like that. I'm going to flip the black construction paper back over run my fingers along this to make sure that it sticks and now I've got this overhang which I'm going to crease a tiny bit as well and tape to the box. If at any point during the video I'm going a little too fast feel free to pause the video catch up or even rewind it just to make sure that you're doing everything. So as you can see here now I've got the box wrapped on the long side and the long side and I've got a little tiny bit of overhang here which we're going to use later to actually close everything up. So now what we need to do is wrap the short side of the box and the other short side of the box. So we'll need another sheet of black construction paper and what we're going to do here is we are going to measure so that we actually have a little bit of overhang as well to match the overhang. So as you can see I don't have the box all the way up to the very top of the construction paper. I've moved it back a little bit so that the overhang with this construction paper is flush with this one and then what I'm going to do with my pencil is I'm going to draw a line that will let me know where I need to cut this construction paper. So the line that I see is about here and then since we're going to make two of these anyway now that I've folded it where I drew the line I'm just going to cut along that line created by the construction paper. So now we have a piece of black construction paper that is equal on both sides because of the line that we drew and it's going to serve us for both sides of the box and we'll just cut that down the middle just like this. So this third piece we'll put it aside we may use it later and now we have two pieces of black construction paper for the short side of the box and then we're going to do the same process all over again. So what we're going to do here is we are actually going to put a little bit of glue stick along the black construction paper and the side of the box and the other black construction paper on the other side. You don't need a ton of it you just want it to be able to stick. We're going to take this short construction piece of paper and make it so that it sticks to the box, run our fingers along it so that it sticks to the construction paper and the box and now we have one of the short sides of the box also wrapped in black construction paper. We'll do the same thing with this side so a little more glue stick here a little more glue stick on the box and a little more glue stick on the other black construction paper and short side of construction paper we'll put that there make sure it's flush with the bottom and you want to run your fingers along it to make sure that it really really sticks. So now we have our box both long ends are wrapped both short ends are wrapped and we have this nice overhang here that's going to allow us to fold in okay so this is kind of if you've ever wrapped a present for the holidays or for somebody's birthday you'll kind of know the technique. What we're going to do first is we are going to fold in the short side so you'll see that I'm going to take this overhang and kind of fold it down and crease it a little bit here and then you want to crease this side as well the long side and the other one side and then you're going to tape this down so I need a little piece of tape I'll put a piece of tape here to make sure it stays down and another piece of tape on the other side to make sure that that stays down and now we have this side done now we're going to do this side so we'll take this we'll fold this down we'll crease it a little bit along the edge we'll crease the long side and the other long side and we'll type it down so now we've got both short sides folded into the inside and we have these little flappies and we're going to fold these flaps down as well and tape them so there goes the long flap we'll crease along the edge of the box to get a nice edge there and tape this bad boy down and same with the other side so we'll fold this down crease that edge and add some tape there's a marathon huh okay so we have the sides of our box completely wrapped in black instruction paper and now we need to do the top portion so what we're going to do is take another piece of black instruction paper lay it down nice and flat and we're going to sort of measure our box so I flipped it and I'm going to put it all the way to the edge as you can see the edge of the black instruction paper is here I'm pushing the box all the way to the edge and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to draw with my pencil a line along the other side of the box so that we get a piece of black instruction paper that's going to fit on top of the box so it looks like my pencil line is about here and I'm going to do a quick fold and then I'm going to cut off the extra black paper like I said if you need a little break if you need a drink some candy pause the video take care of yourself so now I've got this big piece of black instruction paper that's going to go on top of our box what we're going to do here is we're actually going to use the glue stick to run along the top of our box just like that you don't need a ton of ton but you just want something to be able to stick and then you want some glue stick along the sides of the black instruction paper which we wrapped earlier and also a little bit of glue stick on the corners so that your corners are nice and neat what you're going to do is here you have to work kind of quickly because it's a lot of area to cover just kind of place that on top make sure that the sides line up and then press it down with your fingers so that it sticks to the box and the rest of the construction paper and after what seems like forever we have the base for our altar so we can put that aside or you can keep working and try to make it a little neater you know however you feel but that's going to be the base so we'll put that aside and now we're going to work on the top so if you have a small box what we did is we actually cut it in half so all the other flaps went to another the other those more those kick and what we're going to do here is we're actually going to assemble this box so I'm going to fold down one flap the side flap the top flap and the back flap and so now we have a little half box this you want to secure with some tape as well so I'm going to put some tape here along the middle take that down tape along the other side take that down and I think for this one I'm also going to cut off a long strip of tape and tape it along this seam so now we have a nice box taped down secured and the inside is actually empty and that's okay this is the little box that we're going to put on top of our altar and it's going to form this little piece here okay so we still have two sheets of black construction paper left and we're going to use those to do this it's going to be about the same technique so once again we're going to take the sheet of black construction paper and we're going to measure you want to make sure that you measure with a little bit of overhang to be able to fold it down later as you can see the edge of my boxes here so I'm going to cut or I'm going to draw a line there with my pencil I'm going to fold where the line is and then just like before I'm going to cut off this excess because we're not going to need it along the edge of the paper that we fold it over put that to the side now we have two equal pieces of black construction paper and I'll cut down the fold that I made that is right in the middle of those so now we have two pieces for the sides it's the same technique but this time I'm going to show you how to do it with the table using you to help you okay so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to keep the piece of black construction paper on the table and put some glue stick on it right in the middle of it you don't want to go all the way up to the edge because you're going to have that hanging off then I'm going to take the box I'm going to put that in the middle and I'm going to run my fingers along the inside of the box to make sure that it sticks and try to get it as flush to the edge as possible so now that I know that that's stuck now I'm going to take my tape fold these down and tape them to the box and so now just like before we have this little overhang right so we're going to do the same thing for this other side glue stick box press down on the inside of the box to make sure that it sticks flip over tape fold increase tape it to the side fold increase tape it to the side if you come up with your own way of wrapping these boxes with five pieces of construction paper feel free to do that this is just what I came up with to use as little paper as possible for each of the kits so now we have two sides of the box what we're going to do here actually is we're going to fold these little overhang flappies we're going to fold them down just like this and we're going to crease the paper that we have like that so as you can see I'll do it again I have these overhangs I folded them down and then I crease them to make little diagonals on the corners and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this flap that I just made and fold that down crease along the edge and I'm going to tape this down okay so I'll show you once more I take these little corners fold them down and then as you can see it starts to fold the paper and so I'm just going to pinch that a little bit to form a diagonal fold and then fold that kind of the same way that you would wrap up present okay so we're in the last little bit here we've got the sides of this wrapped up and now we need to cover this entire area down the middle of the box which is perfect because that's going to be our last piece of construction paper I've got here six pieces but we only gave you five in the kits so I'll put that off to the side next up what we're going to do is we're going to take this and we're going to measure it so that we have a piece here that is going to be flush all the way to the edge of the box so as you can see I've got the edge of the box and this piece and this piece so that's pretty good actually right we just need to cut off a tiny bit but on this side we need to cut off this entire strip so I'm going to measure here from the side of the box and now this pencil line is going to guide me to folding this over so I use the pencil line to measure the box and then I folded it all the way down the length of the paper and now we're just going to cut this off put that up to the side and then what we're going to do here is we're going to put some glue stick here to be able to stick it to the box so I'm going to lay down some glue stick you want to work kind of fast because it's a lot of area and you don't want it to dry out before you get a chance to stick it you really just need some glue stick in the middle and then we will do this press down on the inside of the box to make sure that it sticks and now you have these two flappy's right that you're going to fold up and onto the side of the box once again I'm going to do a little bit of glue stick and I'm going to do some glue stick on the side here with the black paper some glue stick in the middle of the box there and on the other side too and then I'm going to take this and I'm going to fold it up and make sure that it sticks by running my fingers and at this point as you can see I've got a little tiny bit of black paper along the edge of the box that's hanging off you can either cut it off if you want if you put enough glue stick on here so that it's stuck or you can fold it over just like that and put a little bit of tape I feel like that makes it a little more secure but if you don't want to deal with that you can just cut it so that's that side of the box and once again on the other side we're going to put some glue stick there along the inside of the middle there and along the black there and fold this bad boy up make sure that it sticks and then here I really don't have that much black paper so that I'm just going to trim off you just want to take your scissors and carefully run them along the edge of the paper to trim it off all right so we have our base for our altar we have the top of the altar and now we need to put them on top of each other so there's a couple of ways you can do this you can either center it along the long side of the box and toward the back so you have a nice little ring around here that's what we did with this out that and that gave us room to put stuff around the edge if you want a longer deeper altar you can rotate this and take this all the way back here and then you have a little bit more room in the front here or if your altar is going to be in the middle of a table and people are going to walk around it you can actually put this box right in the center of the altar and then you have surfaces along the four sides it's really up to you and what works for you and your family but I'm going to show you how to stick the little box onto the top okay so what we're going to do here is we're going to need to take our little box and you're going to put two pieces of tape on one side so I'm going to cut off some tape here I'm going to tape it to this side just like that and I just need two it's going to hang off a little bit and that's okay that's what you want I'm going to take this other one I'm going to put it on the other side so now I've got a little box with two pieces of tape hanging off the box they're stuck to the inside here and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to decide where I want my little box to be for me I'm going to put it on the edge so I'm going to take this tape hold it back with my fingers and I'm going to make sure that this edge of the box is lined up where I want it to be once I have that I can take the little tape flap that's hanging off and tape it to the black construction paper of the box underneath so as you can see I've got sort of like a little hinge of tape it's stuck there and then now I just need to close this and boom it's Altar time so now in our next video now that you constructed your Altar after like 45 minutes Evelyn is going to show you how to decorate it okay so stick around we'll do the decoration part and then after that we're actually going to have a little calaca part where we're going to show you how to make skulls out of the clay that is in your kit so see you then