Cardboard props: How to make a Pirate Treasure Chest

Step 3: Lift the hatches Boys!

I discussed in the ingredients step that I used a very thin roll of cardboard to get the rounded lid... Now, you could use ordinary card, but you would have to pre bend it first so that it can be glued to the edges to your lid sides.

I found that it was best to glue the rounded sections before i cut the roof covering to size, as you will need a few inches to form a hinge between the two sections (the lid and the box base)

Start with one edge of the cardboard roll, and match it to one corner of your lid edge. Glue along the interior  seam of the two edges. when you have glued along the length of the curved edge leave 2inches or so to use as a hinge

When you have glued one side, start on the other... you *SHOULD* by now have a domed roof shape