Organize your jewelry with these upcycled jewelry boxes made from plastic containers. They’re colorful, unbreakable and perfect for kids.
You’ll need:
- Plastic boxes
- Paint
- Paintbrushes
- Stamps and ink pad
- Mod podge
DIY Jewelry Boxes
My daughter has a beautiful wooden box for her jewelry. She likes to fill it up with her necklaces, rings and bracelets and then carry it around with her. It was a gift, plus it was expensive so I wanted to come up with a way for her to carry her jewelry box around with her that wouldn’t break if it was dropped.
I think a lot of people get these chocolate boxes over the holidays. Instead of recycling them I used them to make jewelry boxes. And if the plastic container broke it wasn’t sentimental and could always be remade.
First I started painting the lid white but she wanted me to use pink and purple instead. I ended up finishing the lids with white paint and painting the bottoms pink and purple.
The plastic containers took about 3 coats of paint so make sure you let each layer dry before painting again.
Once dry, I used my stamps to write “Pearls go with everything” on top of the lid.
Since the jewelry boxes are going to be handled a lot I added a coat of mod podge to seal the paint.
I think these jewelry boxes turned out so fun and colorful.
