Making Whimsical Boxes

So…since our escape room must take place in our modest home, and we don’t really have a ton of doors or cabinets to lock, our escape room needs a TON of boxes.

I got most of the boxes for $2 at the thrift store. Some boxes were just wooden and therefore fine to keep as they were. But some had odd decorations on them, so I had to add a little theming and whimsy to them.

I present: My magical whimsical Harry Potter escape room boxes!

They were pretty much made with my Canva skills, Mod Podge, and embossing powder. Some also used logos I found for free on the internet, and some included images I bought from BowArts on Etsy.

Unexpectedly, my modpodge skills got worse as time went on. I’d say the most flawless application is the little owlery box, which was the first box I made, and one of the worse was the Honeydukes lunch box, which was one of the last that I made.

Either way, I am generally pleased with how they turned out.

You may be wondering how they’ll lock? I’m going to buy chain from a hardware store which will be wrapped around the boxes. That seemed the more affordable strategy vs trying to find boxes that had a lockable closing.