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origami boxes Advent calendar

An Advent calendar made out of tiny boxes. It can be reused for many more years to come.

This calendar takes about 3 hours to make. Should you decide to print the number on the paper, do it before cutting the squares. It takes 50 sheets of paper to fold 25 boxes. The paper for the boxes shown was 4.25 inches x 4.25 inches. A finished box is 1.5 inches x 1.5 inches x 0.75 inches. Chose the chocolate before making the boxes.

origami boxes Advent calendar

Christmas themed origami boxes

PDF templates for printing: decorative box covers, box numbers, box bottoms

Instructions – photographs

2011