Little Boxes for Gifts

Gift boxes in varying sizes always come in handy when you have a small gift like jewelry or hand made soap to give to someone.

The square boxes are all made from a square piece of paper or board and depending on the size of the folds, you can make a different sized box every time. Read more...

The design is based on origami - the art of folding paper into interesting objects. If you would like a copy of the instructions, please send me an e-mail and I will forward it to you. Just click on the blue button in the side-bar for my e-mail address. I will also send you the diagram for the pillow boxes.




The big box with the perfume bottle as well as the smaller one with the soap, are just as easy to make. If you can draw a circle and a square, you can make quite a few of them in no time at all.

Make six circles, score the lines with a craft knife and glue the semi-circle tabs of five circles together to form the box. The top circle is only glued on one side to form the lid. Punch a hole through the opposite tabs and and thread a ribbon through it.

This is a nice way to use old Christmas and other greeting cards and you can even glue photos of family and friends onto the sides for a very personal gift.

You can also draw the diagram on the computer, copy and paste it 5 times and then save it in a folder to quickly print it the next time you want to make one of these boxes. The circle for the small box is 7 cm in diameter with the square approximately 4.8 cm.