Origami Box
With the good side facing down, fold your piece of paper in half.
Unfold your piece of paper. Fold it in half the other way and then unfold it again. When you look at your unfolded paper, you will see two creases in the shape of a cross. Now, place the tip of one corner at the point where the two creases intersect and firmly fold the corner down.
Take the bottom edge of the corner that you just folded and bring it up to the centre line and crease firmly again.
Unfold what you have just folded and repeat with the other three corners. When done, your paper should look like a grid.
With one corner facing you, use your scissors to cut along two 'squares' on your grid. You will start your cut one 'square' over to the right from the centre fold that runs into the tip of your corner. Make another identical cut to the left of your centre line.
Repeat the above step for the opposite corner to where you just cut. When done, you will have two tabs.
Turn your attention to one of the other corners that was not cut and fold it into the centre of your paper.
Repeat for the opposite corner.
Now take these pieces and prop them up, tucking the tips in. The sides of your origami box are now taking shape.
Fold both the tabs over these sides. If needed, secure with a small amount of tape.
For the bottom of the box, repeat the above steps with a slightly smaller piece of paper, so that the top and bottom of your origami box slide nicely into each other To make the bottom smaller, simply fold your second piece of paper so that the edges are about 1/4" away from each other and trim off the excess edge.
Put your gingerbread cookies, almond roca or even your caramel popcorn inside of this pretty box.
Tie with a ribbon and add a gingerbread name tag and you've got a lovely gift wrap idea!
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This origami box is a great gift wrap idea. I'm always short on boxes in my house, so I have whipped up a number of these to hold my baked goods or smaller homemade gifts.
