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.
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:
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.
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.
More Christmas Gift Wrapping Ideas and Free Printables
Looking for more Christmas ideas, activities, and free printables? Find them all here!
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!!
these are great! And who said they had to just be used for christmas goodies??? xx
Many years ago my brother was the master of these folded boxes. I wonder if he still remembers how to make them.
You constantly amaze me with your creativity, Kate…. This will definitely keep my boys busy for a little while…
Just made this yay! Thank you!
I am definitely giving these a go x
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.
Oh my This is so awesome bless u bless bless u for posting this !!
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!