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How to Make Small Gift Boxes (origami technique) All patterns, pictures and text found on Craftideas.info may be printed out and used for private purposes or school-room use only. It is NOT permitted to use our text or photographs on any website, any blog or any other form of publication. Here is some more useful information: No longer will you have to buy expensive little gift boxes for small presents. Spring and Easter paper crafts - Have you ever made paper pinwheels or do you need Easter gift boxes? You will find these projects with instructions here, as well as many others to keep you crafting through the spring season! Creative paper crafts for all occasions >>> Would you like to learn about decoupaging or how to alter daily items into new treasures? Learn new paper craft techniques and Find these and other fun to create crafts in this section. Paper crafts for fall and Halloween >>> Decorate your home with typical halloween figures, embellish your window with pumpkin suncatchers or create a pumpkin luminary to lighten up dark evenings. Have fun creating these and more projects found in this section. Quick and easy paper craft projects for Christmas >>> Here you will find crafts to keep you busy at Christmas time. Create greeting card gift boxes, snowflake bookmarkers and a 3-D Christmas tree amongst other quick and easy fun crafts. Decorate your packages with these homemade tags >>> You have wrapped that perfect birthday present and need now the appropriate gift tag to finish it off? This section offers easy tag inpirations and ideas to help you decide what you would like to do. Artist Trading Cards to craft for summer and all occasions >>> Artist trading cards or otherwise known as ATC’s are like miniature works of art. Find out more about them here and examples to show you how you can start making them. Origami Gift Box Craft Project Here >>> Step-By-Step Tutorials 1 Here you will find over 80 step-by-step tutorials with pictures. Step-by-Step Tutorials 2 Find even more step-by-step tutorials and instructions. New tutorials are being added on a regular basis. Strawberry Potholder 2 - Assembling the Border and Block   Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.craftideas.info     1. Cut a perfect square out of a piece of typing, wrapping or construction paper. 2. Fold the square diagonal in a triangle. Open the triangle again and lay flat. 3. Fold the first corner to the middle line created by the folding and fold again back to the original position. 4. Repeat the same step on the other side across from the first point and open again. 5. Fold the first side now to the new line created by the folding of the opposite side and open again. 6. Do the same step from the other side as well and open again. 7. Now fold both corners in to the next folded line. As you see, you now have a total of 7 folds in the same direction once the paper is opened and laying flat on the table. 8. Repeat now the same steps from the other 2 sides of the paper. This will create now a “checkerboard” pattern on your paper. 9. You will now cut on 2 opposite sides in by 2 folds. That is a total of 4 cuts. Use the picture as a reference. This is a example of the first side after being cut. The same gets done now to the other side. 10. Fold the 2 flaps up and crease and lay them flat again. 11. Turn your work so that the other 2 sides are in front of you. Now fold the point in, fold again and fold again until your side reaches the point where the 2 other sides were cut. 12. This is now how it looks on the one side. Do the same to the other side as well. 13. Fold now the “side walls” in on these 2 turned pieces and hold in place. 14. The box looks now as if it has 4 walls. When done correctly, the center floor is only a 2x2 square area. 15. This is a view from the top looking inside of the box. 16. Now the 2 flaps created in step 10 get folded in. They will fold over these side walls and then the last point will be laying in the box. See the picture above. 17. Do the same to the other flap. 18. This is now how the finished piece looks. For a lid, you do the same steps as above. Cut the square slightly larger than this particular size so that the lid fits comfortably over the bottom piece. 19. The finished box from the top side.