This is what your Advent Calendar from Kaiser Craft should look like now that is is assembled.  Now they won’t line up perfectly but that is all right, you are going to be painting and decorating so the little imperfections will not be noticed.

I’m choosing to spray paint my base (white) and then I’ll do the rest of the decorating in paper, embellishments and tin.

The next thing to address is the 25 little boxes that you have to assemble.  After making several of these I finally got a technique down on assembling them.

First, I bend the box on all the pre-scored line.  Now the only reason I numbered these little flaps is so I could use the numbers in my instructions.  There is no need for you to number them.  After you make a couple of these boxes you will find it is pretty simple and you may find another way that works for you to assemble them.

This is the adhesive I used on these boxes.  I needed a line of glue to hold the edges of the chipboard together and I also wanted something that would dry quickly.  If you have a glue that fits that bill then by all means try it and don’t go out and try to buy new glue.

I ran a bead of glue down the edges of each side of the flap as I assemble the  flaps together, and then held it in place until the glue started drying.

As you can see I actually start with flap #3 and adhere that to flap #4 first.

I adhere flap #1 to flap #4.  If you look closely you can see the thin bead of quick dry glue on the edge of the flap.

At this point I place the box with flap #4 on the table and run a bead of glue down flap #1′s and flap #3′s side.  Then I close flap #2 on both flap #1 and flap #3 at the same time.

Here ya go!  Now when you get ready to decorate the pattern paper will run down the side of the little box and you will a great little box for the trinkets.

I have two advent calendars to make so I ended up making 50 of those little boxes.  I’ve got them made but I haven’t started decorating them at this point.  I guess I need to get on the ball so I’ll have them done by Christmas.

When I get them done I’ll post again so you can see them.  I may have to make another trip down to Waxahacie, Texas to get a refresher on how they decorated theirs.  I may have to take my camera so I can get a picture to remember all the different things they did.

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