Giant Pencil (plus Mini Shelf)

We've all seen, owned and used a pencil before, right? Of course, but little ones! Okay, what if we somehow had to write with our two hands struggling to properly hold this giant pencil? No way!

We'll probably gift this to hulk, it might just be his size, who knows?

The cardboard with which this was made is a double layer corrugated cardboard, that is to say, a very sturdy and relatively light weight option for me, so keep that in mind. You might want to try a different material to build yours with, make sure it's lightweight, so as not to damage the pencil tip by its weight and also make sure it's sturdy enough to last a while.

•Corrugated cardboard

• Paper tape

• Super glue

• Scissors

• Blade

• Circular plate cover (15.6cm in diameter)

• Sheets of paper

Drawing out the hexagonal pieces :

With a pair of compass(which I used) or a protractor (which should be easier), draw an hexagon with sides 22cm long.

Drawing the hexagon: Every angle subtended between two adjacent sides should be 120°.

Draw four more diagram of the hexagon on the cardboard. Cut out the pieces.

Now we should have 5 cardboard hexagons of length 22cm on each side.

Using your ruler and pencil, outline six rectangles of breadth 22cm and length 60cm. Cut out the five cardboard rectangles.

Take out two hexagon from the pile of 5 hexagons earlier cut in step 1.

On each side, tape or glue (as may be convenient, taping would be faster while gluing, all things being equal, would be neater and perhaps stronger) a piece of the rectangular cardboard (earlier cut in step 2), Do this for three out of the six sides of the hexagon.

From the base ( choose any end which rests well on a flat surface as the base), of the half formed prism, mark a 12cm length, from the marked point, start another measurement of 12cm and mark it, measure another 12cm towards the top and mark it.

At each marked point, insert a piece of the hexagonal cardboards (we already used two: top and base, now, the three left overs should be inserted at the three marked points.

Ensure the hexagonal plates are well positioned and do not tip away from a perfect horizontal position along the half done prism.

Take the two pieces left of the rectangular sides earlier cut out, just as done with the first three pieces, tape or glue them along the sides of the prism, making sure that there's little to no gap between adjacent sides and there's an open end (which is the sixth side of the hexagon, it should be left open and not closed).

Cut out a long rectangular piece of cardboard long enough to wrap around the pencil body (prism) and 16cm wide (breadth). Peel off the first layer of the corrugation, you would now have an easy to bend corrugated layer of cardboard with you.

Take the piece and wrap it around the top of the prism we already made, with half of its breadth laid on the prism's body while the other half forms a hollow top.

Take one of the plate covers, and centrally place it on top of the hollow formed by the corrugated sheet wrapped around the prism's head and glue it into position.

Note:The Cap I used had its centre cut out already, so I had to cover it up with a circular piece of cardboard which I cut to fit.

Take the other Plate cover, cut a circular hole into it as seen in the picture above. Take a long and wide rectangular piece of cardboard of 130cm by 35cm an fold it into a cone with a base large enough for the plate cover to fit in. Glue or tape it into position (make sure it doesn't unfold). Insert the plate cover into it and glue it.

Get some sheets of paper, preferably those not anymore needed. Take each sheet and squeeze them in your palms, drop each piece into the conical pencil tip then apply pressure (don't overdo and punch a hole into the cone) to compress the paper.

Repeate until the cone is full. You should have a sturdy cone tip by now.

Carefully place the base of the pencil tip centrally on the prism's base and glue into position.

Now we have a large cardboard model of a pencil plus mini shelf!

From pieces of shapes, to a prism, to a prism with a cap, to a prism with a cap and a tip which now looks like a sharpened pencil, but a way larger one.

We now have a larger than life cardboard pencil (+ mini shelf).

Although you can't write with this, it has enough to draw people's attention to it, due it's size, and the compartments earlier made can be used for storing some small size, little weight objects like pencils (LOL), pens, tapes and small pocket-sized books.

Place it at a corner in your room, so by that, it's weight will be supported on both side and won't fall.

You should trim the tapes where necessary and could colour with crayons (you're going to need a lot of it) to give it the colours of your favourite pencil.

Hope you loved-this? best of luck making yours and don't forget to share it with the community!