The best packaging for a small gift has long been a small handmade box that will show a person how much he means to you. Making such a package is very simple, the main thing is to stock up on the necessary materials and arm yourself with imagination and patience.
Required tools
Before you begin to figure out in detail how to make a small box with your own hands to make it look cute, elegant and festive, you should stock up on the necessary materials for needlework. And of course, the more refined the packaging, the more tools you will need:
- A ruler and pencil will be needed to make the box template.
- Paper will serve as the basis for packaging. It can be card stock, heavy design paper, scrapbooking paper, colored pastel paper, or watercolor paper that you can color in yourself.
- Sharp scissors are needed to create cuts and cut out the template.
- Brightribbons, laces or ribbons are needed to create bows and tie the box.
- Double-sided tape or glue is needed to glue the packaging parts, it would also be good to use Moment glue in a small bottle, which is best suited for gluing decor elements to the box.
- A nail file is needed in order to clearly draw the fold line of the box.
- Beads, labels and buttons are necessary for decorating the box, however, they are better used by experienced craftswomen, and at first you can do without them.
Rules for making small DIY gift boxes
In order for all your efforts not to be in vain, when creating gift wrapping, you should be very careful and follow certain recommendations:
- At the very beginning, you should take care that you will have at hand all the necessary materials for needlework and a ready-made scheme for creating a box, according to which you can draw a template on your paper.
- Cut the paper with the sharpest scissors or a clerical knife so that burrs, cracks or creases do not form on the fold lines.
- When choosing a template for creating a box, you should not choose the most beautiful packaging, saturated with a number of decor elements, since to create it you will need considerable experience in needlework, perseverance and accuracy.
- Before you make a beautiful little box with your own hands from gift paper, you must first make itfrom an ordinary sheet of notebook to practice and then know exactly where to cut something and where to bend it.
- It is very important to correctly draw a packaging template, for which you first need to measure the size of the gift itself, and then add one centimeter to its length and width, which will be the size of the bottom of the box.
Simple packaging
Beginners should not even try to think how to make a small box with their own hands, which will be dazzlingly beautiful, original and unusual. The first step is to simplify the packaging. To do this, we only need bright beautiful paper, a pencil, a ruler, glue and scissors. First, we determine what the width and length of the box should be, and draw a rectangle with these parameters.
Next, we determine the height of the box, and add rectangles with this length to the previously drawn geometric figure. Next, we make one incision for each drawn rectangle. After that, we bend the workpiece along the lines, coat the allowances for gluing with glue and assemble our packaging. True, this will only be half the battle, since we will only assemble the bottom of a small box with our own hands, so then we will also need to make its lid, for which we draw the main rectangle on the template the same as the first time, increasing its sides only by 3 mm, but we make the length of the remaining rectangles equal to only 1-2 cm.
After that, repeat all the same steps as when creating the bottom of the package. On this creation of the boxwill be completed, it remains only to put a gift in the smaller part of the box and cover it with a larger part, that is, with a lid. And finally, you can also glue a bow on top or tie the package with a ribbon.
Flower box
A small box made of cardboard with your own hands will look very original and funny, which opens like a blossoming flower, you just need to pull the tip of the ribbon bow. To do this, we need a cardboard with a size of 1818 cm, a hole punch, a pencil, a ruler and scissors. Yes, you don’t even have to glue anything here, and the main pipes will consist in drawing a template and cutting it out of paper.
First of all, we draw our sheet of paper into 9 identical squares, 66 cm in size, drawing a grid, as for playing tic-tac-toe, and then cut off four squares located at the corners of the sheet. Next, we bend all the rest to the center square, and then we cut off two sharp corners from these four squares, so that in the end we get a flower of four petals, as shown in the template diagram.
After that, at the edge of the petals we make a puncture with a hole punch to make a small hole, we stretch the braid into them, put the gift in the box and tie the braid into a bow, which will be the final touch to create a charming flower box.
Cylindrical packaging
It will look cute, made of paper with your own hands, a small box that looks like a small cylinder with a lid. First, we decidewhat will be the diameter of the package, and then draw and cut out 4 circles of the desired size from thick paper, and 2 from corrugated cardboard. Next, we cut out two rectangles from paper, the length of which will be equal to the circumference of the circle, that is, you will have to remember the same school formula and multiply the radius of the circle by 2 and by 3, 14.
The width of the first rectangle will be what you want to see the height of the package, and the second will be the width of its lid, that is, half as much. Next, using glue or double-sided tape, we glue circles of corrugated paper with paper circles to make the bottom and lid of the package, and then glue one rectangle to the bottom of the box, and the second to its lid. Everything, the box is ready, it remains only to put a gift in it and decorate it at your discretion.
Box with a secret
If you are thinking about how to make a small gift box with your own hands that will surprise the recipient no less than the present itself, you can use the instructions for creating an unusual box that will fall apart as soon as it is opened. We make the lid here exactly as when creating the simplest, traditional packaging, but it will take some work to create the box itself.
First, take a square sheet of paper, for example, with a size of 2121 cm, and draw it into nine identical squares with dimensions of 77 cm, then cut off and discard the four corner squares to end up with a large cross. Next 4 squares bend tocentral and carefully iron the place of the fold with a nail file. And then we take old postcards, beads, make tiny ribbon bows, and glue it all to the inside of the box.
In addition, on all five squares you can write beautiful wishes of a person, funny phrases, quotes. In general, the fantasy is not limited here. Then it remains only to put a gift, raise 4 squares up, put on the lid, and the present will be ready. Unless, it will be possible to decorate the package by tying it with a bright ribbon.
Transparent box
Wishing to surprise a person, you can give him a hand-made box with small gifts that will be visible even before the package is opened. We only need a cutter, scissors, a 1.5 liter plastic bottle and a cold iron for this. First, we take the bottle and cut off the top and bottom from it so that we get a 14 cm blank.
Next, gently flatten the bottle and iron its edge, then iron the second edge, then bring the blank to its original state, then flatten it so that the ironed edges are above and below, and then iron the third and fourth edges.
As a result, after straightening the workpiece, we will get a small box almost made with our own hands without a bottom and a lid. But this is easily fixable. Next, we take a marker and from above and below on each edge we make marks of cuts of 3.5 cm, after which we make an incision along them with sharp scissors. Thenwe make the resulting valves curly, cutting off sharp corners, and assemble the bottom of the box, bending them inward. In the end, all that remains is to pour small gifts into the jar, also bend the valves at the top of the box, and tie the package with a wide bright bow, which will be on top of the transparent box.
Packaging for Valentine's Day
If you want to surprise your soulmate on February 14, you can put your present in a small handmade box with a lid that is made in the form of a heart. First you will need to draw a packaging template, which will be the most painstaking part of the job. To do this, we take beautiful red paper and draw a rectangle on its back with parameters 15 cm wide and 1 cm high.
Then we count 5 cm from its edge, and draw a second rectangle with parameters 11 cm high and 1 cm wide, which stands vertically on the drawn rectangle. Then we count 5 cm of a vertically standing rectangle on both sides, and another 5 cm from a horizontally lying figure. Next, draw two hearts, which will be symmetrically located on both sides of the vertical rectangle, cut out our blank, make folds, glue the box on one side, put a present there and close it.
Everything, the job is done - the heart packaging is ready. Naturally, if you wish, you can make the height of the rectangle not 1 cm, but more, here you should focus solely on the size of the gift that you put in the box, taking into account that the smaller side of the rectangles is the height of our future box.
Christmas tree box for the New Year
Wishing to surprise and amaze friends and loved ones, on the eve of the New Year holidays for everyone, you can make small do-it-yourself paper boxes that will resemble small Christmas trees. To create such a package, we need green corrugated cardboard, narrow bright ribbons and beads, and small bows that will depict toys on the Christmas tree. The first step is to draw a template on the back of the cardboard.
To do this, in the center of the paper, draw a square with a side of 17 cm, and then to each side of the square we add 2 sides of an equilateral triangle, the value of which will be the same 17 cm. Then, to one of the sides of each triangle, we add a trapezoid with a height of 1 cm. After that, we cut out the resulting final figure from paper, and then lift the triangles up and bend inside the trapezoid, carefully smoothing the fold lines.
Next, put a gift in the middle of the box, and begin to alternately lift the sides of the package and glue them to each other, applying glue to the curved trapezoids. After that, cross-tie the box with a beautiful ribbon and tie it with a bow on top of our Christmas tree. And all the other bright-colored decor elements are simply glued to the package from all sides, thereby dressing up the Christmas tree and making the box bright, original and unusual. Of course, in order for everything to turn out the way it should, you will have to try, so it’s better to take care of creating such boxes for the holiday at least a month before the Newyear.
Decoration of the package inside and out
It is also very important to decorate the gift box beautifully. Moreover, it should look good not only from the front side, but also from the inside. After all, it will not be pleasant if a person opens a present and notices a small box pattern drawn by his own hands, which will look completely unceremonious. Therefore, in order to avoid such a misunderstanding, it can be pasted over from the inside with colored beautiful paper or painted with paints. True, paints should not stain the gift, so gouache definitely cannot be taken, and the coloring itself must be done in advance.
And if you have solid experience in needlework, then you can upholster the box from the inside with a beautiful satin fabric, which will make the packaging even more extraordinary and attractive.
And outside, decorating a small box with your own hands is not at all difficult. You just need to show imagination and try not to overdo it, as excessive decor can also ruin the packaging. You can glue a flower and a couple of green leaves made of colored paper on top of the lid. You can glue a fabric flower or a lush bow to the lid, the middle of which will be decorated with rhinestones, beads or unusual buttons.
You can also beautifully wrap the box crosswise with a satin ribbon, tying it into a bow on top. In general, the choice is huge! The main thing is to remember that for a man, after all, gift wrapping should look stylish and elegant with a minimum of decor, but for a woman, you can doa box decorated with more variety and romance.
