Making a Cardboard Tube Gift Box

Craft: Cardboard Tube Gift Box

attosa
Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,246 Posts

January 30, 2017

I love making these cute little gift boxes because they use things you'd otherwise throw away, cardboard tubes and leftover gift wrap.

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Total Time: 20 minutes

Yield: 1 gift box

Supplies:

• cardboard tube from toilet paper or kitchen towels
• wrapping papers scraps
• scissors
• glue
• paintbrush, optional
• clothespin, optional
• ribbon

 

Steps:

1. Trim your wrapping paper so it's just big enough to cover the cardboard tube.

 
2. Add very thin drops of glue (or brush on) onto tube and apply gift wrap.

 
3. After glue has dried, take one end of the tube, apply glue inside, then seal shut. Secure by holding it shut or using a clothespin. Let dry.

 
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4. To make it a bit fancier, affix a scrap of contrasting gift wrapping paper over the first. Insert gift into finished cardboard tube then glue shut. Tie with ribbon.

 

Craft: Cardboard Tube Gift Box

ShirleyE
Bronze Post Medal for All Time! 239 Posts

December 17, 2015

For small gifts that are difficult to wrap, you can use a cardboard tube as a gift box. You will find these tubes at the middle of rolls of toilet tissue, kitchen paper rolls, rolls of wrapping paper, and sometimes cooking foil and cling film.

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katrinehandlang7

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