DIY Cereal Gift Box For the Holidays

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

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This is a perfect way to 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:

diy gift box

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.

diy gift box

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

diy gift box

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

diy gift box

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

diy gift box

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).

diy gift box

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

diy gift box

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).

diy gift box

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

diy gift box

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

diy gift box

You got yourself a box baby!

diy gift box

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

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

  1. Victoria Everman

    06. Dec, 2008

    Best … gift box … ever. :)

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  2. 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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  3. 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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