DIY Cereal Gift Box For the Holidays

12 by Doug Gunzelmann on December 4, 2008

This is a perfect way to recycle your cereal box into a gift box for the upcoming holiday season. All you need to make this is scissors, glue, and some holiday cheer!

Just so you know what you are aiming for here is the final result:

1. You will need glue (hot glue works fine) and a pair of scissors to cut the box and crease in half as shown below.

2. Next fold the bottom half in half one more time. Make cuts from the top and bottom to your two fold lines.

3. Fold the middle section of the top half in half one more time, as shown with the crease below.

4. Cut the top right corner, top left corner, bottom right corner, and bottom right corners off.

5. Flip the box to the colorful side and secure the bottom flap to itself with glue (pictured below the box has been turned around 180 degrees).

6. Follow the same fold and glue procedure for the two side flaps.

7. Glue the bottom half of the top flap to the back side of the box (glue goes behind where you see the nutrition facts part to hold the back vertical of the box).

8. so far this is what we should be looking at:

9. Reverse that remaining crease to form the lid section and you’re golden!

You got yourself a box baby!

Check out Instructables for this project and a plethora of others.

http://victoria-e.com/ Victoria Everman

Best … gift box … ever.
http://wtfarewegoingtodonow.com/easy-money/we-need-a-new-car/ Brad Hart @ A DoFollow Blog

this is a very cool project. I am glad for several half empty cereal boxes since I have been contemplating what to wrap a couple of gifts in.
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Alyssa

This is such a great idea. I actually think it would be cool if the boxes were right-side-out too so you can see the fun colors of the cereal boxes
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anonymous

i tried this twice and it didn’t work either time. how are you supposed to cut the box? your tutorial is vague on that part.
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This sounds like a fun but by no means easy project I have folded A TON of boxes of this very design (its proper name is eluding me for at the moment) and one of the key details in this design are the two notches in the bottom and the matching tabs on the side flaps that insert into those notches. In fact, you can’t consider this box folded unless you “click” those in – until that moment the box “wants” do unfold itself. So, you would need to leave small (perhaps 1/8″ is enough) triangular-shaped tabs on the tops of the side flaps and just make incisions on the bottom in the size of those protrusions.

Whoa, that was a lot of typing for something that anybody will understand in 0.1 seconds once they see it, I wish I had a picture handy… Wait, maybe I do! Also, I looked up the name, Uline calls them “Indestructo Mailers” and yes, they are pretty darn sturdy. So, see the pic attached below.

Cheers!