DIY Cereal Gift Box For the Holidays

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Doug Gunzelmann in DIY, Gift Guides

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!

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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!

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10 Responses to “ DIY Cereal Gift Box For the Holidays ”

Victoria Everman

06. Dec, 2008

Best … gift box … ever.

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Brad Hart @ A DoFollow Blog

06. Dec, 2008

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

13. Apr, 2009

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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