Gift Box from a Cereal Box

After watching J.J. Abrams' TED talk, I was fascinated that he was interested in box design. I was inspired and figured I'd give box making a shot.

I eat a lot of cereal, and had a lot of almost empty boxes lying around. So after a bowl of Capn' Frosted Life, I had all of the materials I would need.

Step 1: Tools/Materials:

You'll need the following tools:

- Hot glue gun with glue
- Scissors

Materials
- One cereal box

That's it

Comments

[elmo1015]

Thanks for the idea. My mom and I had a blast trying to make this. Even though I messed up and cut off a piece I was not supposed to, we used a cracker box instead of a cereal box, and we used tape instead of glue. It still worked! And here is what it looked like in the end.

[StoryAddict]

This is also a really great example of how to make your own boxes for trading card storage, etc.

[StoryAddict]

I actually had a friend gift his groomsmen with leftover cereal boxes without deconstructing them. It was both upcycling as well as funny because it was always a white-elephant gift, however, having seen your Instructable, I can see why this works better, since you actually wanted it to function without additional gift-wrap.

[Origurumi]

You had me at "Capn' Frosted Life"! This was a great instructable and I like how you understand that most of the time, words don't help: so thanks for all of the pictures! Made this in under 30 minutes so thanks for taking the time to figure out a plan and posting it on Instructables! Keep on instructing!
~M

[omnibot]

Mom turns 60 this weekend and your box totally saved me. Thanks :)

[Eleventy]

 Thank you, this is great! I tried one myself, and it was fun and easy:

www.eleventytheblog.com/2010/02/fun-with-boxes.html

When I finished the box according to instructions, I had a hard time getting the lid to stay in place without collapsing into the box. Perhaps I was off a little in my dimensions. Anyway, I cut down the front flap into a smaller tab and made a slit in the folded edge on the front bottom panel. The tab slid into the slit nicely, and kept the box closed while also retaining its shape a little better.

Great project, thanks again!

[Loralynn]

Fantastic!  I can't wait to try it!

[garret-belisle]

Great article. I'd like permission to post this on my blog

[blightdesign]

Sure, go right ahead.  Send me a link, when you post.

[garret-belisle]

Thank you.

Here is the link.

I hope you like it.

Garret

http://www.needtogetsome.net/2009/12/how-to-make-gift-box-from-cereal-box.html

[ladydae]

Awesome especially with no measuring.

[jcordero67]

Excellent . a good idea , I have a lot box cereal to use

[Harkle]

Tried this with an empty 1kg box Cornflakes. It still works but takes a bit longer. Cheers blightdesign for posting. I'm always looking for ways to used those empty boxes :D

[shauny294]

this is AWESOME!! i love this website.. im always on here making the stuff. if i send in some of my desgins do you reckon people will print them on here?

[nellydoux]

Cool instructable! I made mine and now I just put hair clips and hair bands in there. I lined the inside so I wouldn't have to see the imitation rice crispies logo inside, haha. Still thinking of ideas for decoration... ?

[cobibridge]

how cool is that!!!

[lc2u27]

Another great recycling idea. I make document holders from empty cereal boxeshttp://ezi-gifts-galore.blogspot.com/2008/12/document-holders-from-recycled-cereal.html

[greenmia]

AWESOME! I made one! MY cereal box was different so my is different (more like a pizza box) I love this idea. I think the cereal designs are very cool so my book looks like it was made from a cereal box. Thanks so much!

[amakerguy]

I love that idea because Christmas is coming up

[chuckstars]

Actually awesome idea and original =]

[chelly]

tried this because i was a box short for shipping out some items. something to keep in mind, not all cereal boxes are the same size. still, w/ a little extra effort i made my box! good idea when you are in a pinch, but now i have to think what to do w/ all this extra cardboard.

[Yerboogieman]

Speaking of that, my dad bought a chex mix box today.

[pls]

Very cool and creative!

[fireclown]

For the world easiest cardboard box logo-ing/bling-ing, spray paint works great, and is easy as all get out to stencil with. Cardboard holds spray paint wonderfully well.

[lotusduck]

I'm going to screen print the showing side of the box before I fold mine up so that there is a design on all of the box.

[silviamira]

Great! I eat lots of cereal too, so I'll try very soon I guess :)

[inkstainedheart]

Awesome instructable--I'm making one now using Elmers glue and a hamburger helper box.

[LaBibi05]

Wow. That is awesome. I am definitely going to try that.

[love2die100]

This is awesome thanx for the tip.

[zilan]

یکی به من بگه این چه سایتیه و به چه دردری می خوره ؟!

[At Liberty]

"Where Jihadist Kitty and the Jihadist Dardara Mai Khoury?!" Uh..... ?

[ljjones]

too cool! I will use this on some of my boxes. How long did it take for you to figure this out? I think it's great!

[blightdesign]

Thanks. I went through a couple of boxes until I got it right. But it's a pretty simple design.

[pedrotome]

I never have breakfast, but I still have some almost-empty old cereal boxes, so I think this instructable was an AMAZING tutorial on how to get rid of them in a cool way.

[schulman99]

unlike tchiseen, I eat cereal every freaking morning. thanks for giving me a whole new awesome use for all those empty boxes!

[tchiseen]

I like it a lot. I don't eat much cereal, but still cool!

[tiuk]

Nice work, it looks great.

[scooter76]

Very cool, will try it soon.

[Dr. Cool]

Great Instructable! I wonder what else you can do with cereal boxes! Doc Cool