Make a traditional Valentine mailbox using stickers...

This mailbox is decorated with butterfly stickers and white rick-rack trim.

       This traditional Valentine mailbox is wrapped with a heart tissue paper and then further decorated with butterfly stickers. The colors are all traditional to Valentines Day: red, hot pink, pale pink, white and lavender.

Supply List:

• a sturdy, recycled rectangular box with a lid
• wooden coffee stirring sticks (2)
• fancy wrapping paper, decorative scrap paper or tissue in Valentine colors
  
• paper for lining of the box
• extra cardboard for the box tray
• stickers, your choice
• rick-rack trimming
• white school glue and hot glue
• Mod Podge
• masking tape.
  

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Cut an envelope sized narrow opening in the top lid of your box, before covering the entire outside with a layer of masking tape. This will give it an ideal surface for decoupage.
2. In order to make a "secret compartment" inside the box to hide candy and treats, you will need to craft also a fitted tray for the inside of the box. You do this by cutting a rectangle slightly smaller than the dimensions of the outside box. also add walls to the tray on all sides using scrap cardboard and masking tape. 
3. To make sure that the tray sits above a secret compartment, cut and paste in a small shelf using coffee stirring sticks and hot glue. 
4. You may also wish to finish the tray with decorative paper on the inside of the compartment.
5. Now decoupage the outside of the box on all sides using decorative Valentine paper and stickers. We used butterfly Valentine stickers on our doll's version of this mailbox craft.
6. We also trimmed the lid edge with a white rick-rack trim.
7. The last step for this traditional Valentine mailbox should be to brush Mod Podge on top of all decorations in order to keep them in place and clean with handling and play.
   

Stages of wrapping the small box with an inserted tray with masking tape.

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