These little gift boxes are made from recycled Christmas cards - they're easy to make and can be filled with tasty treats or small gifts for the tree or as stocking fillers.
Video Tutorial
Scroll down for step-by step pictorial instructions, or watch the video below...
Pictorial Instructions
Start with the front of an old Christmas card - if it's not square, trim it into a square.
To make a box and a fitting lid, you need two squares, one of which should be about 5mm smaller than the other in both directions. The larger one is the lid - bear this in mind when selecting your card.
Find and mark the centre of the plain side by placing a rule across the diagonals and marking a light pencil line through the middle.
Fold one corner in so that the tip just touches the centre mark.
Press and smooth down the fold.
Fold the same edge in again, so that it touches the centre.
Press and smooth down the fold.
Unfold the card flat again
Repeat the double fold operation on each of the other three corners in turn.
You should end up with a diagonal grid of folds like this.
Cut carefully along the fold nearest the centre, stopping at the corner of the unfolded square in the middle.
Make three more matching cuts in as shown here - ending up with two pairs of parallel cuts.
Fold one of the sides in as shown - the corner into the middle and the edge folded up at a right angle.
Note how this creates two slim pointed tabs at the edges...
Repeat the above folding operation on the opposite corner.
Push the pointed tabs in toward each other.
Fold the remaining corners in over the top of the pointed tabs, securing them in place.
When you press all of the corners down into the bottom of the box, they should lock into place against each other.
No glue is required.
Repeat all of the above with the smaller square of card.
You should end up with a pair of boxes that just fit snugly together.
