You have 48 coloured pencils. You need one. Naturally, it’s the one that’s gone missing.
Navy is under the cupboard. Black has been borrowed by someone, somewhere. Yellow is lying shamelessly in the middle of the desk, but obviously that’s not the one you need.
And inspiration? Inspiration has no time for this.
So the cardboard box your parcel arrived in gets a new job: keeping your colours somewhere you can actually find them. A few cuts, a little glue, and you’ve got a wall-mounted pencil organiser — right above the desk, right where you need it.
Make one pocket. Make three. Arrange your pencils by colour or throw them in any old way. We’re not here to judge.
The important thing is that Navy finally knows where it lives.
Cardboard with a past. Now working in organisation.
This template is designed for cardboard 3–4 mm thick. Most cardboard boxes from online deliveries will do the job nicely. You’ll also need glue, a craft knife and a metal ruler.
Click the images below to download the two-part template. Then print both parts on the blank side of used office paper.
2-part template – wide box
you need a piece of cardboard 55 cm x 25 cm
2-part template – narrow box
you need a piece of cardboard 45 cm x 25 cm
Mount the shape of the pencil box on your cardboard as shown in the picture below. If you are recycling the cardboard, try to use the fold lines you already have and align them to the dashed lines on your mounted shape.
With the help of the ruler, cut all the black lines. Be accurate. Don’t let your eyes be misled – no polygon has the same width or hight here. Place the ruler on the drawing when possible, so that if your blade slips, it will cut into the waste card around the outside of the drawing. Fold all the dashed lines. Before folding, make a crease – a scalpel or craft knife is an excellent tool for this.
Now, the way this pencil holder works is quite simple. And yet, quite extremely radical as well – You need two screws in the wall, a wooden bar fixed with those screws, your cardboard boxes on this bar and finally pencils in the boxes. Just in case you haven’t yet, we suggest you buy a wall bar. Oh, and of course, feel free to share your Instastyle using #kokimiloki.
