pen holder

Materials & Equipment Needed

1. Cardboard (preferably quite thick, from a used cardboard box)
2. A bowl to draw around or a protractor
3. A kitchen roll tube
4. 2 toilet roll tubes
5. Paint
6. Glue or sticky tape
7. Scissors
8. You can use alternative materials for the toilet roll tubes in line with H&S guidelines, by either cutting up a kitchen roll tube or by rolling cardboard into a tube shape.

Instructions

1. Use your protractor to draw a circle on your cardboard or draw around a bowl. Make sure the circle is big enough to stand all the tubes on leaving a few centimetres space around them.
   
   
2. Cut out the circle using your scissors.
   
   
3. Paint the circle and your three tubes and leave them to dry.
   
   
4. Make four 2cm equally spaced cuts up one end of the toilet roll tubes using your scissors, and fold up the resulting flaps.
   
   
5. Make four 4cm equally spaced cuts up one end of the kitchen roll tubes using your scissors, and fold up the resulting flaps.
   
   
6. Place the flaps of each tube flat against the base circle.
   
   
7. Use your glue or sticky tape to attach the tubes to the base circle.

You can decorate your desk tidy as you please and then fill it with your stationery.