Origami Post-it Box

Intro: Origami Post-it Box

This is a tidy little box that is cool yet useful. It's also a great way to recycle all of your used sticky notes at work. Just make sure the boss isn't watching.

You will need:
Square sticky notes
Scissors
a pen
your hands

STEP 1: Peel Off a Sticky Note With the Sticky Part Up.

STEP 2: Fold From Point to Point in Half

STEP 3: Then Fold in Half Again From Point to Point.

STEP 4: Take All 4 Points and Fold to Center.

STEP 5: It Should Look Like This.

STEP 6: Now Fold to First Crease From Point and Do This on All Four Points.

STEP 7: It Should Look Like This Now. You Will Notice That There Are Four Squares Near the Center That Make a Square, This Is the Bottom of Your Box.

STEP 8: Fold the Point to the First Crease and Do This on All Four Points.

STEP 9: This Is What You Will Have When You FLIP IT OVER.

STEP 10: Remember the Four Squres in the Middle? You Will Cut on the Crease to the Corner of the Four Squares. You Will Do FOUR Cuts on TWO Opposing Ends.

STEP 11: Look Closely at the Cuts. There Are Only FOUR.

STEP 12: Fold in to Make the Side.

STEP 13: Now Fold the Opposite Side As Shown. You Should Have Two Points Touching Inside and the General Shape of the Box With Two Tabs Sticking Out.

STEP 14: The Two Tabs Will Then Be Folded in to Create the Remaining Sides. All Points Should Be at the Bottom of the Box Touching With No Overlap.

STEP 15: Now Take Your Trusty Uhaul Pen and Flatten the Edges of the Box. Done!

You can make two and have a lidded box.

• If you're smarter than the average bear you'll figure out how to do it without the cuts.

Comments

[ggslittletwins]

I have a question do we have to fold the corner of the triangle?

[KristenATX]

I mean, it's cute and everything... but what exactly do you have *that* tiny that needs a box?

[SocuteBleh]

you could make it bigger and out snacks in there and also make a lid

[nadibratxp]

Earrings!

[kaylaangelkisses]

Well, you could make it bigger with bigger paper

[luckymonkeygarage]

Post it notes are only a suggestion in this case. Use a larger piece of paper if that suits you better.

[Callum Snowden]

Awesome instructable with clear pictures! thanks for posting this! BTW the boxes also scale up quite nicely to different sizes as long as it is a square :)

[Callum Snowden]

SMD electronic components ;)

[NewYorkRob]

One thing that comes to mind is that this tiny box can hold your limited imagination.

[BarbaraDahl]

Funny, NYRob! But, not very nice. Remember our rules? Corky

[NewYorkRob]

It's a joke! Don't lose your sense of humor.

[Hiroak]

Maybe if they just had a very small box to put it in, it wouldn't have gotten lost.

[timjelly]

a pretty good joke, too -not to be mean, just pointing it out

[NewYorkRob]

The comment is a general comment not directed to anyone in this politically correct world. Think of the remark in this sense, "One thing that comes to mind is that this tiny box can hold ones limited imagination."

[zootsuitbaby]

*The comment is a general comment not directed to anyone in this politically correct world. * You can't backpedal out of snarkiness that easily, NewYorkRob. It wasn't generally directed, it was specific. And it doesn't have anything to do with political correctness (which I abhor). It has everything to do with courtesy.

[NewYorkRob]

I have never been so insulted in my life! What an accusation!

[Boowiggins]

What if it was a tiny sketchbook full of schematics, for instance, why not? Write? Even Though it's compartmental imagination eludes its confinement.

[KristenATX]

Ooookay... asking a genuine question... but if with snark is how you feel you need to respond, more power to you. Hope whoever peed in your cheerios gets what's coming to them.

[Ely0_0]

mine came out bad

[SocuteBleh]

Same