How to make your own Skiving SnackboxWhat you will need:

Cardboard, large sheet approx 60x45cm – 3-4mm thick is good, though 2 or 5mm thick will work, provided cardboard is sturdy enough and able to easily fold.

Coloured paper (optional, if not using paint) – orange, green, light blue Foam packaging (this kind and this kind, henceforth known as spongy foam and flaky foam) Car sponge Yellow juice bottle lids (approx. 9) Shoelace (round, brown or black in colour) Some sort of small oval-shaped mold for miniature jelly beans (I used the empty foil packaging from

tablets) White paper bags OR baking paper Scissors Exacto Knife Ruler Cutting mat Glue stick Craft Glue Paper

Pencil Paintbrush Paint White glitter White beads Styrofoam balls, 3cm Orange cellophane

[Please note: all sizes in this tutorial can be adjustable, but I think these are the easiest numbers to work with and perhaps the closest to actual size of the ones shown in the movie.][Secondary note: you will likely need to keep looking back at the reference pictures as seen and linked on my blog.]

Making the outer box:

Measure up the net of a cube and cut with the exacto knife. Each square should be 15x15cm. Ideally, this means a sheet of cardboard 60x45cm.

Number or label each square for reference. The top square will have your Weasley “W” logo on it (unless of course you decide to do it on every side, in which case you’ll need to make sure they’re all facing the right way up). There are 2 ways you can do this. Glue orange paper to the outer card and print or cut out the logo on red paper (much quicker), or paint it. I originally painted mine, but I was using shiny cardboard with writing on it and the acrylic paint didn’t like it or want to stick to it at all, not to mention you saw all the brushstrokes! After three coats of paint, I gave up, found some more cardboard, and covered it one big orange thin cardboard sheet. If you’re painting, you’ll need a bright orange colour and be prepared to give it more than a few coats of paint, especially if the cardboard has writing on it. Make sure to put down newspaper to protect the surface you’re working on.

If painting the logo, paint the middle red of the square red. Print off a copy of the “W” template and cut around it. You can then blu-tac this over the top of the red in the middle, and continue to paint your orange around the edges,

or use it as a stencil the other way around – cut out the W in the middle and paint the red on top of the orange. Make sure you have it facing the right way as shown in the diagram. As stated, you can put one on every side if you wish (it is shown both ways in the movie). This is all best done before you fold it.

Now you want to paint the inside.

The plain blue square isn’t too important, because it is mostly obscured but the bottom Fainting Fancies box, so just make sure you’ve done around the edges. If painting, you don’t have to be neat with any of the edges, in fact, leaving a bit of brown cardboard showing is good – authentic – as well as a few hasty brushstrokes. If layering paper, just make each square is measured and cut up nicely, and the two-coloured middle sections are nice and even – 15x7.5cm each. My edges specifically on the labeled side ended up a little rough and torn, but again, I think this is more authentic as per the prop reference.

When it comes to the green square with your Skiving Snackbox logo, again you can print onto paper, or paint. Good luck painting though – it’s small, hard to cut out and stencil, and honestly painstaking – I tried, you don’t want to see the mess of an outcome! By all means, try it freehand, but in the end, again, I went for the printed logo.

Once the paint/glue has dried, you can now go ahead and make the folds on the cube. To finish up, poke two holes through your top and bottom squares with something sharp [through the outer orange side, so the edge of the circles poke through on the inside], and thread your shoelace through. These are also great as closed props if you don’t have the time to do up the insides.

Making the inner boxes:

You’ll need more cardboard! Old, recycled stuff, because you’ll need to make sure this time at least one face of the cardboard is brown, as it’ll be left unpainted (unless you want to go to the trouble of brown-papering it, but that seems quite unnessarcy). Two squares 25x25cm, and two rectangles 17.5x25cm. Draw 5cm margins on all four pieces and cut around. [Please note: This is merely a guide. I think mine ended up with around 4cm margins because I needed to leave room for folding the edges over and I was using thicker cardboard. This is a bit of trial and error. Basically, you want three boxes to fold up and sit snugly on top of each other with just enough breathing room between them.]

[Image source: http://stickinsect.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/making-a-cardboard-box/]

Paint or glue colour paper to the inside of the boxes. The two larger squares should be green and orange, and each of the smaller rectangles blue and orange, remembering to keep one side the unpainted brown colour. You can again make rough edges or have a dribble of paint down the side. Once dry, glue the tabs and fold as per the above diagram. Print out each of the candy labels and glue to white cardstock (or paint the edges white). You can then glue them to the sides of the boxes, put them in the center on varying angles. [Note: these are not the exact fonts used in the movie].

Orange Square: Fainting FanciesOrange Rectangle: Nosebleed NougatsBlue Rectangle: Fever FudgeGreen Square: Puking Pastilles [Note: the original Skiving Snackbox has this logo glued to the top of the orange lid above the box, not on it. This changes in the Skiving Snackbox advertisement in Film Wizardry.]

You can then have the fun of gluing each inner box to your outer box! Start with your orange square, completely glue down the base (onto blue square) and the back side to your blue-orange square. This will help your box stand up on its own. Then glue on your blue and orange rectangles to each of the sides respectively. Try closing the box. Hopefully they will slide in nicely above your bottom square. And finally glue the green square on top of the blue-orange square again.

You now have a completed box!

How to make your own Skiving Snackbox Sweets[These sweets are inedible and match the designs in the movie, not the books. If you wish to make edible sweets, visit Sheila’s guides on The Leak Cauldron or SheCreatesStuff on Blogspot].

Once finished, you can pack this range of sweets to make you ill inside your Skiving Snackbox! You may want to rip up some white paper bags to line the inside of each box, or cut up some baking paper with some diagonal scissors or ripped edges.

Making the Puking Pastilles:

Cut up your spongy foam into 8 slices around 2cm tall, 2.5cm wide and 6.5cm long. If possible, try and ensure it is quite a clear difference in texture from your foam car sponge which you will use later. Paint one half of each piece deep green, and one half deep purple. Once dry, cover the top in a thin layer of craft glue and sprinkle white glitter for an effective sugary-look.

Making the Fever Fudge:

These are hard to see in the movie, so it’s up to you how many you want to make. You can try making 2 really long fudge slices that take up the whole box, 2 short ones, 3, or 4. For the purposes of this guide I’ve made up 2. Get a small bit of flaky foam, and square, rip, and crumble into tiny pieces. Using your car sponge, cut it into 2 even slices around 3.5cm tall, 3cm wide and 13cm long. As you can only see the tops of these, I have taken a leaf out of the SheCreatesStuff guide and decided to make the bottom half red to indicate hot/cold fever. This is different to how they are described in the books as colour coded ends – I’m not quite sure how you’d eat only the top half of fudge – so you can play around if you like. Once each half is painted and dry, cover the top in a thin layer of craft glue, and sprinkle your crumbled, white, flaky foam on top, to create a flour-look.

Making the Nosebleed Nougat:

These were the most fiddly to work with! In the movie, one end looks like a delicious chocolate ball, with evenly spaced rows of white icing. The other end looks like a vomit-coloured peanut cluster, with Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans tossed in it. Get a hold of some small Styrofoam balls – ensure they fit inside your box! My boxes were a little on the small scale so I only fitted 3, instead of the 4 I was initially planning. Paint a nice, deep, chocolate brown colour. Tip: Cut up some toilet rolls and sit them inside to help with painting and stop them rolling away! Again, you’ll want to crumble up some white, flaky foam to use for your icing. It’s up to you whether you want to glue these on in nice even rows (5-6 per row, but very, very, time consuming), or sprinkle. I chose the later. Ensure you leave one half free of foam-covering. Alternatively, you can use the white beads again.

Now for the cluster end of the bar. I find about half an A4 sheet of paper scrunched up will give you about the size of your chocolate ball, but this may differ depending on how tightly you scrunch it up. Tight is good, but not too tight. Before you scrunch it up, give it a coat of paint on both sides as it will be easier to paint when it’s flat – you want it to be that nice, yellow-brown vomit looking colour! Then you can scrunch it up and use craft glue it to your chocolate ball.

If you wish to make the jelly beans, I suggest hunting around for a little mold. I found the foil packaging from an Ibuprofen packet the right kind of size and shape for a jelly bean – just make sure it’s no longer being used to hold tablets! Rip off any of the broken foil packaging, and try to even out the plastic with the end of a pen though you will probably find it won’t entirely even out and be a little rough. Paint over the plastic – try and match existing Jelly Belly beans if you like, although I only went for the yellows and greens shown in the movie – and then cover the inside, and particulary edges in glue, and put a bit of glue on your scrunched up ball of paper to have them sticking out from inside the folds where you’ve scrunched it all up.

Making the Fainting Fancies:

These are possibly the hardest to see in the movie. From what I can tell, they look like an orange sweet inside a u-shaped yellow sweet. These were perhaps my least favourite and least accurate and most fake looking sweets, but I didn’t know how else to make them. Take your collected yellow juice bottle lids (or painted other coloured lids), and glue crumpled orange cellophane inside. Layer with craft glue and sprinkle little white beads to create sugary-look.

That’s it! Place your sweets inside their relevant boxes and put on display!

the SKIVING SNACKBOX

Patented by Weasley & Weasley

Above logo made from the fonts Golgotha and Goshen

PUKING PASTILLES

FEVER FUDGE

Nosebleed nougatfainting fancies

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