Click the picture to download the pdf. Cut out the squares and rectangles. Use them as templates to quickly draw shapes. You can draw the square and rectangle shapes freehand, if you prefer.

Connect pairs together and create boxes, just like we did with the triangles and prisms earlier.

To help you get the idea of how boxes are constructed, get some cardboard boxes and pull them apart and stick them back together again. Cut out and make the box on the pdf sheet.

Making things like boxes is good for you brain. As you cut it out the flat design, fold it up and stick it together, your brain will be building a 3D map of how a box is made.

Eventually you want to be able to imagine a box and be able to see it from any angle all inside your head, so you can just draw it as you see it in your mind’s eye.

This come naturally to some people, but don’t worry – the more you draw and play with 3D shapes and objects, the easier it is to imagine and manipulate those shapes in your head. It’s brain training!

BoxesTask: using the templates or drawing freehand, draw lots and lots of boxes! Draw pages of them – every shape and size – until you feel comfortable and confident drawing the box you are seeing in your mind’s eye.

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