Personalise your index card box

Colours make learning more fun!

Even though the holidays are now over, learning at home still continues – whether it’s homework, preparing a presentation or online video lessons. So, to ensure that things don’t become dull and boring within your own four walls, we’ve come up with a variety of craft ideas to brighten up your everyday routine and make learning more fun! We’d like to show you a simple yet effective way to decorate a card index box. All you need is a plain card index box, some wide strips of paper to cover it (we’ve got some downloadable templates) and edding fibre pens to add some cheery colour. You can also watch our easy video tutorial.

Category: School and desk
Products: Fibre and felt pens
Highlighters
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

To design your card index box, you’ll need the edding 1200 colour pens and edding mini highlighters in pastel and neon colours. We’ve got all the templates you’ll require – you simply need to do download them, print them off and cut them out.

Step 2

This photo shows you the three sections for the outer faces of the box.

Step 3

Now reach for a mini highlighter and draw a rainbow in your own style.

Step 4

Next, use the edding 1200 colour pens to colour in all the other detailed motifs. These pens come with a fine tip which makes them really good for precise colouring. The large set of 20 offers an amazing selection of colours, so it won’t be hard to find your favourites!

Step 5

Once you’ve coloured everything in, you’re ready to glue the paper strips onto the box.

Step 6

For dividing the index cards into different subjects, we also provide you with English, Maths and Chemistry templates as an example. Simply print them out (you can find the download link in the section "Other materials") and use the fibre pens to colour them in however you wish, before gluing them onto thick card.