By Noreen Doll. Mini gift bags are perfect for holding small gifts, including gift cards, small pieces of jewelry, and money. To make one, you need 1 envelope and a few colorful decorations, such as buttons, flowers, and even colorful paper strips. This is a project kids can work on, and they could draw on the envelopes - before crimping, or add … [Read more...] about Mini Gift Bags
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Free Gift Box Templates
© by Noreen Doll. Use these free gift box templates to make many different kinds of small boxes. This is an excellent way to recycle all those Christmas or birthday cards that are taking so much space in your home. If you don't have many used greeting cards, or you need to make a lot of small gift boxes and bags, consider buying greeting cards specifically for this … [Read more...] about Free Gift Box Templates
Greeting Card Sour Cream Box
By Noreen Doll. A greeting card sour cream box is another gift box that can be made from a recycled card. Basically you glue or tape the two open edges together to make a tube, and then close both ends. Turning the tube halfway before closing the top edge gives the gift box an interesting look. To close the bottom edge of the greeting card sour cream box, you can … [Read more...] about Greeting Card Sour Cream Box
Gift Box Patterns
By Noreen Doll. If you're looking for great gift box patterns, try this unique triangle shaped box made with a greeting card. You can either recycle an old card or use a new one. The triangle box is so quick and easy you can make several in half an hour. Even better, you can teach your kids to make them, too. One thing I discovered when making a triangle box is that it … [Read more...] about Gift Box Patterns
Greeting Card Pizza Box
By Noreen Doll. A greeting card pizza box is very easy to make. Just a few cuts and folds, a bit of glue, and it's ready to use. This gift box is hinged on one edge just like a pizza box. A greeting card pizza box may be used for any small gift, such as money, jewelry, or a gift card. What You Need Greeting Card Small Strip of Card … [Read more...] about Greeting Card Pizza Box
Pillow Box Template
By Noreen Doll. A greeting card pillow box template is quick and easy to make using a greeting card. And after you make one, you can use it to easily make dozens more gift boxes from the same size card. Here are some boxes made with different sizes of cards and pillow box templates. After you put your gift inside the pillow box and close the ends, you can tie a … [Read more...] about Pillow Box Template
Gift Box Packaging
By Noreen Doll. Gift box packaging is easy when it requires only one greeting card to create it! The front of the card becomes the lid, and the back of the card becomes the box bottom. This small handy gift box can be used to hold small gifts, a gift card, or money that is rolled or folded to fit. Using a large card to make a lidded box works best unless you … [Read more...] about Gift Box Packaging
Origami Basket
By Noreen Doll. This origami basket is actually like one half of an origami box with a lid. And you can make it in almost any size you want. Do a few simple folds, a couple of snips with scissors and add a handle. An origami basket would be perfect to make for a kid's party where you need to make a lot of them for favors. And here's a way to make your … [Read more...] about Origami Basket
Vehicle Busy Bag
by Noreen Doll. A vehicle busy bag will especially appeal to little boys. Kids can use this to learn to sequence, follow patterns, or to make their own patterns. It would be a good idea to buy at least 2 bags of vehicles (or other shapes of foam stickers) to ensure that you have enough of each color and/or shape. Since these shapes were only $1 a bag at the … [Read more...] about Vehicle Busy Bag
