Robot Valentine’s Day Mailbox

 

My kids love going all out for their Valentine’s Day mailboxes. Once Christmas wraps up discussions begin on what theme they want their mailbox to be. At our schools the kids have a big Valentine’s Day party and so each child brings a “mailbox” to collect their Valentines from their classmates. My son was very excited when the idea of a robot got brought up. It seemed easy enough, so here is how we created it using our Silhouette Cameo .

The Box

The box that we used for our robot is a 7 x 10 inch box, but to make the robot mailbox you can use whatever size box you want you will just have to size you body piece accordingly. Basically you just need a piece that covers most of the box. There is a small part of the top of the box to attach the head. In the image below the blue rectangle represents the box.

Silhouette Users

Open the body cut file and use the Scale window to make it the size you need. (I added an extra 1/4 inch (0.25) to the width to make the piece a little bit wider than the box)

Make sure the Lock Aspect box is checked, change the width and click Apply; the shape will adjust to the new size.

Printable

If you are making the robot as a printable, cut out a piece that will cover most of the box. Use the Valentine opening template to cut the hole in the middle.

Valentine Opening

We used the Valentine opening on the body piece as a template to draw the opening shape on the box. I cut the opening in the box a little bigger so you wouldn’t see the box through the opening.

Silhouette Tip:  Since all the colored pieces aren’t very big I put pieces of all the different colored paper on the cutting mat and cut them all out at once.

Love-O-Meter

Here is an up close look at the love-o-meter all put together

It is made up of a base rectangle, circles with hearts on them and the meter gauge. Looking back I could have cut circles in the base rectangle and then put the hearts inside those circles; it can be done either way.

Arms and Legs

The arms and legs are really simple. The arms and legs are just accordion folded paper, one side is attached to the box and the other side attaches to the hand or foot. The foot is made up of two pieces, the smaller piece goes on top of the big piece.

Face

Here is the order we went in to make the face. Starting with the base piece we put the silver piece on with the two circles cut out for the eyes. The eyes are little blue circles on top of white circles. The nose is a big hexagon with a smaller hexagon with the middle cut out on top of it. Having a Silhouette cutting machine makes it easy to have the center of the nose cut out, but if you are cut this out by hand I would cut out the big and little hexagon and not worry about cutting out the middle.

Check out how we put it together:

 

Downloads

Robot Valentine Mailbox (Silhouette Cut File)

Printable

Robot Valentine Box printable (PDF)

What shape Valentine’s Day mailbox are you making this year?

Want to make some printable Valentine’s to go in the mailbox? I have a lot for you to choose from.

DIY Printable Valentine Cards

• Love is in the ‘Air‘
• You Brighten My Day
• I spy My Valentine
• High Five Valentine
• You’re the Star of my Show
• ‘Bear’y Good Friend
• Starburst Valentine