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How do you fancy making this?
It's a very realistic safe, which doubles as a money box and a secret store for keeping your personal bits and bobs safe from prying eyes.
Best of all, it's really easy to do!
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You'll need the plastic top from a milk bottle, a chocolate dispenser, a washing powder box and a tea bag box with a flip top lid.
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The first thing that you need to do is make sure that the flip top lid of the tea bag box is in the closed position, then draw around it.
Then cut the entire top of the box off.
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The next thing to do is take the washing powder box. Put the tea bag box (that you've just cut) in the centre, and draw around it.
This should leave you the shape of a rectangle in the centre of the washing up powder box, with a border of about 3 or 4 centimetres.
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The chocolate dispenser comes next. The kind you need makes a noise that sounds like a combination lock when you open it.
Using PVA glue, stick the chocolate dispenser to the washing powder box with the hole facing northwest.
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Now you need the plastic milk bottle top.
Again, using PVA glue, stick it onto the chocolate dispenser.
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When the glue has dried, take a pencil and carefully punch a hole through the middle of the right hand line.
Punching the hole will allow you to cut down the right, top and bottom lines. Make sure you don't cut the line down the left, because you'll be using that as a hinge.
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To make the hinge work smoothly, take a ball point pen and a ruler, and score along the line a few times.
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So now, you should have a door that opens out nice and smoothly, just like this.
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The next thing to do is to cut a slot in the top of the box. This is where you'll put your money through.
Remember to make the slot big enough for a £2 coin, but not so big that people will be able to see what's inside!
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Now, open the door that you made on the washing powder box, and push the tea bag box inside. It should fit quite snugly.
Put PVA glue on the back of the door and on the tall, unpainted side of the tea bag box.
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And that completes the secret compartment!
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To complete the safe, you need to paint it.
We used silver, and added a strip of dark grey at the base to make it look extra heavy.
And finally - draw on details like the screws in the corners and combination lock - use a permanent marker for these.
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