• About
  • contact
  • Advertise

Picklebums

Activities, recipes, free printables and life with four kids

  • Home
  • Activities for kids
  • family food
  • parenting
  • Printables
  • farm tales
  • shop

Print and Fold Christmas Gift Boxes – Free Printable

Posted on December 12, 2011 9 Comments

These little print and fold Christmas gift boxes are fun to make and perfect for wrapping all those small, oddly shaped presents!

Use our free printable patterned paper and follow the easy, step by step instructions, to make your own gorgeous Christmas gift boxes.

stack of three paper gift boxes on on top of the other

Do you ever find yourself with a few small, odd shaped, Christmas gifts that you need to wrap?

I know some people are a whizz with wrapping paper and they can wrap any shaped item, no matter how irregular, but I can’t. I always manage to put holes in the wrapping paper and the gift ends up looking like a total mess. So I’ve given up trying to wrap irregular shaped gifts, instead I am using fabirc gift bags, or these adorable little print and fold Christmas gift boxes.

These little gift boxes are easy to make and they are the perfect size for a small gift.

You can make these origami Christmas gift boxes out of almost any paper or light card. They look lovely made from an interesting page from a magazine, or try printing out a photograph to fold into a box. They are also a great way to reuse your kid’s artwork, and family and friends will love receiving a gift wrapped in a special piece of art!

Or to make a quick and easy Christmas gift box, scroll down to the bottom of this post and use our free printable Christmas patterned paper templates.

How to Make a Folded Christmas Gift Box

To make a folded paper gift box you’ll need two pieced of square paper or card, one slightly (.5 of a cm all round) larger than the other. The larger piece will become the lid of the box, and smaller piece the bottom.

To save on measuring and cutting, scroll down to the bottom of this post and download our free print and fold Christmas gift box templates. Once you have downloaded and unzipped the files simply print the template for the top of the box (topback), then turn it over, choose a design for the top of your box and print that on the other side. Follow the same steps for the bottom of your box, cut out the squares and you are ready to fold.

Follow the step by step folding instructions below:

printable gift box - how to fold

Free Printable Christmas Boxes

This free printable gift box set includes a template for the top and bottom of the box, and three different patterned designs for the top of the box, and matching solid colours for the bottoms of the box. Mix and match patterns and colours to make your print and fold Christmas boxes.

print and fold gift boxes three stacked

You can download the set of free print and fold boxes here.

The set is made up of eight A4 pdf files zipped into a folder for easy downloading. You will need to unzip the folder before you can use the pdfs. If you are printing on US ‘letter sized’ paper be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options.

Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.

paper gift box with red bottom and coloured Christmas baubles on top

More Christmas Gift Wrapping Ideas and Free Printables

If you have some other small gifts to fold you might like these free printable Christmas gift wrapping ideas:

Sewn Paper Stockings - print your own paper stockings, sew them up and fill them with goodies!
Sewn Paper Stockings
Free printable gift card holder - make giving vouchers a little more fun!
Gift Card holder
Free Printable Christmas Gift Wrap!
Christmas Wrapping Paper 2014

Free Printable Christmas Gift Boxes - print and fold these cute little boxes and add our bonus Santa tags
Gift Boxes
Free printable colour your own Christmas wrapping paper - colour in your own Christmas gift wrap for totally unique gifts!
Colour Your Own Wrapping Paper 2014
2013 Christmas Printables - colour your own wrapping paper!
Colour Your Own Wrapping Paper

Looking for more Christmas ideas, activities, and free printables? Find them all here!
Find our Christmas ideas, activities and prrintables here.

654 shares
  • Share
  • Tweet

Filed Under: Printables Tagged With: christmas, christmas printables

Read the comments or scroll down to add your own:

  1. Yvette P says

    love it!!! Use to make these when I was a lil squirt!
    Totally forgot how to do it!! :)
    All I can make these days is origami boats..

    Got a few small gifts I can use these boxes for – for the great grandparents – will get a photo printed out of the lil squirts and use that!! Thank you again!!

    Reply
  2. tahlia - the parenting files says

    these are great! And who said they had to just be used for christmas goodies??? xx

    Reply
  3. Brooke says

    Many years ago my brother was the master of these folded boxes. I wonder if he still remembers how to make them.

    Reply
  4. Dorothy @ Singular Insanity says

    You constantly amaze me with your creativity, Kate…. This will definitely keep my boys busy for a little while…

    Reply
  5. Kristyn says

    Just made this yay! Thank you!

    Reply
  6. Cybele @ BlahBlah says

    I am definitely giving these a go x

    Reply
  7. Jen says

    How fantastic! I’ve got a couple of little gifts that need boxes and I never thought of making my own, thank you so much.

    Reply
  8. annie says

    Oh my This is so awesome bless u bless bless u for posting this !!

    Reply
  9. AnnaMarie says

    Thanks for this !! I’ve just followed your instructions with some draft paper, and I did make a little box :) Now I’m ready to use better paper for giftwrapping! :)
    PS: That’s the perfect wrapping for homemade jewellery, thank you thank you thank you!

    Reply

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Home » Print and Fold Christmas Gift Boxes – Free Printable
welcome
pinterestfacebooktwitterinstagram

Search around a bit…

You might also like…

ocean playdough with fish, shells and more

Ocean Playdough – Free Printable Accessories

How to make this lovely folded paper bracelet.

How to Make Folded Paper Bracelets

Find our printable puppets here Find our easy art activities here find our easy dinner recipes here

Find Activities by Age

  • Baby play
  • Toddler Fun
  • Preschooler Fun
  • School Kids Fun
  • Fun for Everyone

Subscribe to our newsleter

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, learn and live, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and we pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Find posts by month

Browse all my crazy categories

Copyright © 2021 • Powered by WordPress
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
  • Home
  • contact
  • advertise
  • Privacy Policy