Ghost in a Box

Jack in the box is getting a little old, No? Ghost in the box is much better, yeah? The ghost in the box is a makeshift version of the jack in the box using gears, a spring, and a cool creator. This took me about 2 weeks to make with 40 minutes per day.

1. Cardboard
2. Ply wood
3. 1 smaller gear
4. Medium gear
5. 1 bigger gear
6. Rubber band a little bigger than the biggest wheel
7. Balsa wood
8. Wood sticks
9. Clay
10. Cutting board
11. cardboard cutter
12. X-acto knife
13. Maybe something that cuts good holes

Materials

1. Take a good piece of cardboard (>216 sq ft)
2. x-acto knife
3. cardboard cutter or box cutter
4. Pencil or marker
5. ruler
6. Hot Glue gun

Steps:

1. take your flat piece of cardboard and ruler
2. measure out 6 pieces of cardboard each 6 inch's by 6 inch's (I measured 8.5 diagonally and made line from there.)
3. Take one of the pieces of cardboard and use the x-acto knife to cut a small hole (a little bigger than the knifes hilt) about 2.5 inch's up and matching the image.
4. Take a hot glue gun and refill it with glue and plug it in.
5. Once its ready glue the edge of 1 of the sides. Then take another side and place it at a 90 degree angle so that its straight up.
6. With the first side and base. Take another side and glue it to the base and the side of side 1. This is side 2
7. Repeat step 6 until the box is full except the top lid.

Materials

1. Cardboard
2. 1 small gear and large gear
3. Thick wooden stick
4. hot Glue gun
5. Wood saw
6. Box cutter

Steps:

1. Take a piece of cardboard and make it 4 inchs by 1.5 inchs with a hole about 2.5 inchs up matching the first image
2. Take the small gear and the larger gear and cut off the piece of plastic in the middle of the gear sticking out.
3. Take the wooden stick and cut it into 2 pieces, 1 .75 inch and 1 a little smaller than 1.5 inch.
4. Take the smaller stick and the smaller gear and hot glue them together.
5. Take the longer stick and create a handle that looks like the first image.
6. Take the piece of cardboard and glue it about an inch way from the hole and make it so that the hole of the side and cardboard match.
7. After you have both pieces take the longer stick and place it in the hole. take the other smaller stick and hot glue them together as straight as possible.

materials:

1. Bigger gear
2. Wooden stick
3. Cardbaord
4. Wood saw
5. Hot glue

Steps:

1. Cut out 2 pieces of cardboard 1.5 by 1.5 inchs and create a hole right at the edge. (be carefull this part was hard).
2. Take the wooden stick and cut out one .5 inchs and another .75 inchs
3. Glue both sticks onto the larger gear in the middle like the 3rd image. (try to make it so that there is no excess glue)
4. Take the x-acto knife and make a small hole similar to the hole in the piece of cardboard we just made. It should be on the cardboard side of the first hole.
5. Take the gear and the sticks and place he smaller end into the hole
6. Take 1 piece of cardboard with a hole and glue it onto the top of the other cardboard piece inside the box.

Materials:

1. Cardboard
2. x-acto knife
3. hot glue gun
4. Wooden dowel/stick

Steps:

1. Cut out a circular piece of cardboard about 1-1.5 inchs in diameter.
2. Tale the wooden dowel and cut the edge off slanted. Take this wooden piece and glue it onto the cardboard circle around the edge not on the flat side.
3. Take the other piece of cardboard with a hole in it and glue It onto the side of the first cardboard piece inside the box and the side of the big box.
4. Take a piece of dowel and cut it about 1 inch, 2 pieces. Glue them to each of the sides of the cardboard circle like the first gears.
5. Place the dowels into the hole in the side of the box, and then glue the other piece of cardboard with a hole in it so that it makes the dowels flat.
6. Take a giant wheel, bigger than the second gear. and glue it to the end of the stick that's inside the box.
7. Take a rubber band and place it around the biggest wheel and on the second gears stick.

materials:

1. balsa wood
2. shorter rubber band
3. x-acto knife
4. hot glue gun

Steps:

1. Take the pieces of balsa wood and cut it to the shown lengths and shape.
2. Glue the short balsa wood to the middle edge.
3. use the exacto knife to cut out a spot for the edge of the balsa wood to go into.
4. Place the edge of the balsa wood in.
5. Glue the rubber band to the sides of the cardboard box where it looks like the image.
6. Finally hot glue the rubber band onto the balsa wood like the image.

Materials:

1. Straw
2. Smaller wooden stick
3. Cardboard
4. X-acto knife
5. Hot glue

Steps:

1. Take the piece of cardboard and cut it out 6 inchs by 6,
2. Take the straw and cut it to 6 inch's as well. Take the exacto knife and cut the straw to 3/4 straight down hamburger way.
3. Take the balsa wood and cut it to 6 inchs
4. Glue the straw onto the edge of the cardboard box side right of the gears facing the gears away from you.
5. Glue the balsa wood onto any edge of the cardboard lid.
6. Take another piece of balsa wood and cut it to the same shape as the image.
7. Glue that piece 1 inch and 2 inchs away from the edges facing up.
8. you can now slide the piece of cardboard, balsa wood side, into the straw which makes it be able to move up and down.

For this last step you can do whatever you want to be on the top of the spring. It is reccomonded that it is something light weight so that the spring can go up easily.

CONGRATULATIONS

you have finished the Project. Wind up the toy and enjoy!