Kenneth Cole

Box Blueprint: Box Project Days 1 and 2

Below is an example of a box blueprint. When you draw your box blueprint on your poster board, make sure that the following things are true. This will make sure that when you cut your blueprint you will make a box.

  1. Waste areas 1 and 2 must be squares exactly the same size.
  2. The top and the bottom rectangles must have exactly same lengths and widths.
  3. The right side and the left side rectangles must have exactly the same lengths and widths.
  4. The front and the back rectangles must have exactly the same lengths and widths.



When you complete the drawing of your blueprint on your poster board and check to see that it meets the above rules, record the following information on the back of this sheet.

  1. Measurements for all of the lengths and widths of the rectangles and squares.
  2. Compute all the areas of the rectangles and squares.

When you finish, have Mr. Cole check your information and initial your paper below the chart.



All measurements should be recorded in millimeters. The rulers measure to the nearest millimeter so you must use estimation in recording your measurements. Ask Mr. Cole or a student expert for assistance if you have difficulty in making these estimations.

For help we do have some rulers which measure in millimeters.

Mr. Cole must initial your blueprint worksheet and posterboard in Waste Area 1 before you cut your poster board to make the box.

Note when making your cuts: You may want to keep some of the waste area for flaps to help your box be structurally stronger when you close it up. If you want Mr. Cole to explain how please ask him. The flaps are best if they are small trapezoids saved while cutting the waste areas. This is not required, but you may choose to make these flaps for strength.

Created: 20 October 1996
Last update: 10 November 1997
Kenneth Cole
kcole@ns.waymark.net
Emerging Technology Teacher
Faubion Middle School