Hi, I'm Sophie and welcome to my world. Today is an exciting day in my world cuz
I have my friend Frankie. Frankie and I are gonna make something that is so cute.
We're gonna be making these tiny little mini-donuts and they have a
little tiny lid that folds down. You can put your own little logo on top and inside
mini donuts out of Cheerios. So Frankie and I are gonna show you how to make your very own little box
of donuts that you could use for your stuffed animals, for your pet rock
parties, exactly in fact I'll tell you a story while we're working. So the
materials that we need for this are pretty extensive Frankie's let's go over them.
You are going to need this is most important
a matchbox right exactly and you can actually get these at the supermarket in
the area that they sell, like if you go to someplace like Lucky they have wood and
that kind of stuff for fireplaces that's where you'll be able to find them and
they usually sell them in a little brick of 10. So you're not looking for
singles you're actually looking for a brick of 10 and the thing about these is you can also
sometimes get these at hotels or restaurants they give them out as little gifts.
So we're gonna need one of those that's most important.
Believe it or not the best thing that I have found for picking up the Cheerios
is a Q-tip exactly and you're also gonna wanna have a toothpick so you've got a
q-tip and a toothpick. Now we're going to need a little piece of tissue paper to
make our little fold over in the box
yeah we're gonna need icing now this is probably the most important thing now
the thing about it is you don't have to go out and buy icing you can make icing
with egg white, a little bit of cream of tartar
and powdered sugar and I will have that recipe on my website but if you don't
want to do that you can also use this Pillsbury kind of you know just the
prepackaged stuff. They also sell it in bottles now this stuff
is fun. What I've done is I've actually taken the icing that
I was just talking about which is called royal icing and I put it into a little
squeeze container to make it easier. You also need Cheerios these are super
important because that's our donuts! If you want to make powdered donuts you need a little
bit of powdered sugar in a Ziploc bag. You'll see how we do those later. We just
toss them around in here. Scissors are always important yes gotta have our scissors and I 've got
some little glue dots here and the glue dots we're going to be using because we
put that little piece of paper in there. What's the most important part though
sprinkles! Frankie got very excited about the sprinkles.
tell them which sprinkles you've chosen. I've chosen these colorful kind of oval ones
the jimmies, and then these are the dots, little balls which I like and then you know
what really really works well these granulated sugars. They look really amazing.
yeah and then you know what I made? This is just a set of labels. These are
one inch labels and I will have the template on the website for you and
you can download it and you can cut out your own little sticker or you can make your own
Let's get started.
OK so the most important thing is have a little work surface right cause these do
need a little bit of time to dry so we're gonna start with our matchbox exactly
Oh, and washi tape. I think I forgot to say washi tape washi tape is
awesome for decorating so what we gonna do is take our little like a little drawer
right. Slide the little drawer out. That's what we're going to start with and so pick a
washi tape that you like. You take the polka dots I'll take the hearts
so find the end and what you're gonna do is take the washi tape and line it up with
the bottom edge so put one edge and leave some hanging over the edge there
so you leaving some hanging over the edge so you leave it hanging over the
edge and then you've got extra sticking off the top but you're not going to get
worried about because you're gonna use that in just a second anyway and then just
come around with your tape around your box. Fold that edge over. Keep coming
around to get it nice and covered. Then you can either use scissors if you want
to or you can rip it. That's the great thing about washi tape. So now what we're gonna do
is take the corners and we're just gonna give the corners a little tiny snip
with our scissors and that's because we're gonna fold that extra little bit
fold that little extra bit down and in to the box
it makes a little tray almost we're going to add while you're working
on that I'll get this ready for us we're just gonna add a little tiny bit of
tissue paper and just measure the tissue paper so that it's gonna go
right inside there. I'm gonna cut one for you too. We're gonna take our paper and we're
going to use glue dots to just glue that into place just putting it right in
there in place with some glue dots. Here's a glue dot for you.
A couple glue dots is fine and just pick these up put them in the bottom here and that's going to
help to keep that paper inside there because its gonna want to pop out. You can even
put them on the sides of you want to. Just take that little piece of tissue
paper tuck it inside and then you can fold it over. My sticks aren't really dots anymore.
I know they're glue boogers right? They will still work, don't worry. Glue dots, glue boogers
all the same
That's gonna be our perfect little box for our little donuts. The next
thing we're gonna do is we're actually going to make our our top, our lid and to
make our lid what we're going to do is we're gonna take that wonderful washi
tape again and you get to choose a different pattern if you like. You wanna use that
sparkle pattern?
So now what we're gonna do this time Frankie we do it a
little teeny bit differently and what we're gonna do is we're
just using that part so we still have our drawer slid out and this time
we're going to cover it by wrapping around the side coming up on to the top
again
so we make almost like a little band and then we're gonna start another and layer
exactly so it's kind of like when we make duct tape fabric we're kind of
overlapping the tiniest bit
and we're just going around and around to make our little box cover.
Just so you know we've got our fabulous glue dots, but you
could if you wanted to use hot glue. So you end up with your little sleeve all
covered now some people like to leave it like this and just have it be like a
slide out box, which is totally fine you can do that just do a little
slide-out surprise but what I like to do is I like to actually have the box open
like a real little box. I'm going to show everybody how to do that. So Frankie
inside there's a place where it is glued together and you want to try to find
that place where it's glued together and leave that to be the back side and then you
want to cut on the opposite side where it's glued together. Just cut right along
the bottom there okay so yeah that's where it's glued together you can see the
side there so you wanna cut on the opposite side and then what you want to
do is cut this little square off of the bottom. You can save this little piece to
do something to make it a little mini picture frame or something else out of
that. You could cut it ahead of time if you wanted to but i just
found it's easier to
actually cover the whole thing when you're going around and around and around so
now I got my little topper it looks like a little table now and what I'm gonna
do is take my scissors and just cut a little bit off the edge of each so like
a little triangle off the edge of each one a little triangle off those sides.
let's take a peek here so that's good let's cut it right there at the spine.
now you've got your lid. Now what we want to do is use our glue dots. Take the side
that doesn't have the triangle cut ok and we want to put our glue dots
we really do want to turn them into boogers so we went to kind of fold them onto
themselves so they make a little booger
gonna probably need two or three for each one so fold that little booger onto
the back side like that so you've got your little boogers and then Frankie all you gotta
do is add it to the back and that makes the lid. Isn't that cute? The reason
that we did those little cuts on the side there Frankie is so
that when it closes down it's like an actual lid and will stick inside.
OK so that is our box. How are you doing on yours? Good.