Building a pill box with DIY: organize your medicines or those of your loved ones and avoid forgetting with small tricks. There are many ways and all useful and very interesting to make a box where to keep the pills and carefully follow the indicated therapy. Discover with us 3 useful and interesting ideas.
If sometime you forgot to take your pills or you are often confused by the clutter of all those boxes on the shelf in the bathroom it’s time to step in and the pillbox it could be your best ally. Like? It represents one fundamental tool to follow your therapeutic plan without making a mistake.
In commerce you will find different models and all designed to meet different needs: monthly, weekly, daily or pocket version. Why not let’s try to make some together? We leave aside the more technological models and let’s arm ourselves with scissors, paper, cloth and little more: let’s build together a perfect pill box for you.
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1. Building a pillbox with DIY: the art of origami
Let’s start with a easy easy project: if you like work with paper and you also succeed well why not use this art to your advantage and make a precious box? The idea is very simple but the result is certainly effective: you will get it in a few moves and with few materials a box where you can safely store your medicines at home. Useful for your weekly organization and without having a large footprint, on the contrary.
Let’s start with thenecessary:
- cardstock
- scissors
- hot glue.
The our project it’s clear: a bigger box (square or rectangular does not matter) that inside will guard others more small boxes each with one or more pills inside. Choose gods different color cards for the various days of the week and start folding the paper giving it the desired shape. Help yourself, if you like, with some tutorial on youtube et voilà the first project is gone. Let’s move on to the next one.
2. Pillbox with DIY fabric: a touch of glamor
This project is tailored to the needs of those who love a compact and aesthetically pleasing product, takes a few pills and together, perhaps at the end of a meal, and it is especially so careful to respect your privacy. By choosing the right stuff and creating a delightful pocket it will be able to accommodate all the medicines you need inside and without prying eyes discovering what it is.
Let’s see together thenecessary:
- meter
- pen
- cloth
- scissors
- needle
- wire.
Proceed following a model card very simple: download it from the internet or take a look at some cutting and sewing magazines, letting a more experienced friend suggest it to you. One time chosen the one that suits you best, it will not be necessary to go to the haberdashery for purchases but it will be enough recycle an old shirt or a a pair of jeans that you no longer wear for a truly glamorous touch.
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Choice of fabric, meter in hand, take the measurements and starts to cut, sew with needle and thread in strategic points, create a buttonhole and it will be enough a button, if you prefer pressure, to complete it all. Add a few more details, for example, the hand-sewn initials to make yours truly unique pillbox.
We conclude our creative journey with an idea that is easy to implement and with a easily available material: those of us who don’t have one at home empty plastic bottle? Let’s see together how to transform it: are you ready?
3. Plastic DIY pillbox: practical and functional
Let’s start immediately with thenecessary:
- plastic bottle
- two caps
- scissors or utility knife
- tapes
- cloth.
The bulk of the work lies in cut properly and in the right place your bottleneck: use some scissors or to a much more sharp utility knife but being very careful and proceeding with tranquility and patience. The meaning of the project is all here: you have to cut in such a way than taking the other cap fits perfectly under the neck where we made the cut.
For convenience leave the first cap screwed on is proceed with the second until you hear a click sign that your box will be perfectly sealed. If it fails at the first shot, don’t worry, try to trim the bottle better or help you with some well-aimed blows.
And that’s it your box is ready to welcome your pills but we are sure it will be useful for storing many other small items in home. Finalize the project by applying some color details or a satin ribbon to embellish it.
Building a pillbox with DIY: pictures and photos
These that we have proposed to you are just 3 simple ideas to organize your pills but, peeking the net or using the imagination, we are sure that you will find many other beautiful and functional projects. Empty boxes of candies, matches or the strangest shapes: try your hand at one of these projects and let yourself be surprised by some other photos in the gallery.
