How can you make a shoe box look old?

It can be a cardboard box too. I need it for a history project. We need to put "old" letters and pictures in a box, and it should look old.


Thanks!

How can you make a shoe box look old?
use an old shoe box, and tear parts of it to make it look worn out





you can even burn sides of the box and to make it look discolored, stain it will coke or another drink.





for the letters to look old, you can burn the sides of them to make them look historic =]





hope this helps! =D
Reply:stain it with some hot tea. just make tea and dab it on the shoe box.





take a bit of sandpaper or a rough kitchen sponge and make the edges and stuff of the box look worn down.





maybe bend the lid back and forth a bit so it doesn't quite fit any more, so it looks like its been put on and off the box a lot.





you could do a decoupage thing to it; paste old looking images to it, of flowers or old newspaper stories.





tie it with a big ribbon





look online to see if you can find pics of old shoe boxes for other ideas
Reply:get some dirt, and put the dirt in some water, put the box in the dirt water, take it out, let it dry and it will dry lookin old :)
Reply:take sandpaper and scrape it,


burn the edges with a lighter, or electric stove?(i did that for this history diary journal, it worked real well :])


sort of bend it and twist / play around with it.











_hope that helps :]




freckles