This may look like an ordinary garden shed...
...but it's actually a perfect place for storing all the tools and equipment you need for loads of Finger Tips ideas!

Pens, pencils, glitter, scissors - whatever you like!
There's even room for more storage underneath!
If you'd like to make Shed Loads Of Equipment, you'll need to get two shoe boxes that are exactly the same size.
Take one of the shoe boxes and draw around its smaller side, onto a piece of cardboard like this.
Now take the lid and draw around the smallest side on the same piece of cardboard, just beneath the rectangle you just drew.
Find the centre point and join it up with the corners, like this.
Then cut the shape out, like this.

Use it as a template to cut out another one which is exactly the same!
Stick the shapes onto opposite ends of one of the shoe box lids.

This will be the roof!
Lie the roof down, like this, onto a large piece of cardboard.

Draw around three edges like this...
...then carefully flip it over, as you can see here, and draw around those three edges too.
Enlarge the rectangle shape slightly on each edge to give your roof an authentic overhang.
Then carefully cut the rectangle shape out.

Brush PVA glue onto the edges of the roof supports...
...then pop the cardboard roof in place.

Place an open, heavy book on top of the roof to keep it in place whilst the glue dries.
Next, make the slats for the side of the shed.

The long slats are made by drawing around the long, thin side three times. The short slats are made by drawing around the short, thin side three times.

You need eight long slats and eight short slats altogether.
Stick the base of one of the shoeboxes to the lid that you haven't yet used.
Pop the roof on top...
...then stick the slats in place, like this.
When done, pop off the roof and glue in place boxes and tubes to make handy compratments in which to keep different things!
And if you like, cut out a window.

If you do this, only do so in the side of the top or bottom box - not in between!
The window frame is made from a couple of wooden kebab skewers and the window pane is a piece of clear plastic packaging.
You can detail the shed by painting the outside and by drawing on wood effect detail.
Blue corrugated card looks great as a roof...
...and how about making some trellis out of tile separators, with creeping vines and fake flowers?



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