An important fact in a gift is not only the object itself. A huge role is played by how it is designed. Therefore, more and more often donors make boxes with surprises with their own hands, in which they place their gifts. The more original and creative the design of the offering package, the more valuable it is.
Kinder surprises for adults
Often, gift boxes are extremely nontrivial. A container from children's sweetness, which is known to everyone as a “kinder surprise,” may well play such a role.
Preparing such a package is quite easy. You just need to take the container, release it from the contents, put your gift inside and close it again. With Easter stickers, you can decorate gift box containers or paint them with acrylic paints.
A bouquet of flowers from sweets with a “kinder surprise” in the center
In such packages you can present banknotes or small valuable gifts, for example, jewelry, car keys or an apartment. Particularly creative donors use the container itself in a rather original way. Decorating it in the form of a tulip, you can put it in a bouquet of flowers from sweets.
You can make a container from a chocolate egg. Then, with the help of a heated knife, the sweet shell is carefully cut, the contents are taken out. They put a gift inside, and again they seal the chocolate with a hot knife. Wrapping sweets in foil with a surprise inside, you can use it as a gift: present it in this form or decorate it with a flower.
Popping "out of the snuffbox little devil"
Everyone knows the movie about the diamond hand. The episode, when the superintendent hopes to get expensive perfumes, tries to open an elegant box. However, after clicking on the button, it is ridiculously scared when a toy little devil breaks out from under the lid. A catch phrase about a snuffbox with popping horned vermin comes to mind immediately. But you can easily replace the little devil with something more decent and pleasant!
Moreover, it’s easy to make such boxes with surprises with your own hands. To do this, you will need the container itself, the toy, the spring.
Since it is desirable to make a box with a surprise for a long time, metal containers from tea are often taken as the starting material. It’s great if this container is musical.
Inside, a spring is attached to the bottom. A toy is sewn or glued to its outer end. You can hang an expensive necklace on a doll or “give” a ring to a clown. A cute bunny can stretch a bunch of ... banknotes!
Having squeezed a spring, it is necessary to carefully hide inside the “devil” and close the lid. That's a cool gift ready!
Surprise joke
People with a sense of humor will certainly appreciate a gift that emphasizes their personality traits. After all, boxes with surprises with your own hands such as "hell out of a snuffbox" can be made targetedly. That is, instead of a neutral toy, it makes sense to put inside the doll with the face of the person to whom the gift is intended. To do this, just stick a photograph of the addressee on the face.
In some cases, it’s enough to dress up the toy properly - some of the details in the shape of a person already speak for themselves.
And there is also the option to sew the doll on its own from fabric or from nylon pantyhose with synthetic winter padding, to mold from polymer clay, conveying the main personality traits of the addressee.
Gift houses
An interesting packaging for gifts can serve as a shoe box. Having beautifully designed it, it is easy to create a luxurious souvenir, which even by itself can already become a gift. But you can put a toy on a spring inside, for example, a flower that opens after it “jumps out” of the box. And in the middle of this flower will be the main gift.
Such house-boxes with surprises with their own hands are made quite easily. You just need to stick the details on the frame: a porch made of matches, a window frame made of ice cream sticks, cellophane glass, Christmas trees and salty dough trees. Correctly painting the craft, you can create a real masterpiece of needlework.
Matryoshka box
Receiving a gift, everyone involuntarily worries. Languishing in expectation, the recipient of the gift eagerly tries to get to the offering itself as soon as possible in order to satisfy his curiosity. This is where the donor with a sense of humor can play.
Having made several boxes of different sizes, he will put them one into another, packing the main gift in the smallest inner one. You can even beat this moment by warning the recipient that he can open the box only after he performs a number of amateur performances for guests.
Having sung a song, the gifted takes off the lid and sees under it ... another box! After reading the rhyme, he removes the lid from the second box and stumbles upon the next. Now he has to dance. But even after opening this box, he still will not achieve what he wants. And only after he demonstrates the talent of the narrator of anecdotes, finally, he will be able to receive the desired gift.
In such a creative way, you can diversify the scenario of the holiday by organizing a miniature concert. It is recommended that guests be invited as assistants to the speaker.
Cardboard box diagrams
It is quite easy to make a box with a product pattern template on hand. If you want to make a gift container with a removable lid, it is recommended to use such a pattern.
This box scheme is transferred to cardboard and cut out. There should be two details. Blue color indicates the main parts of the product, white - auxiliary, which is coated with glue. Thanks to them, the box holds its shape.
The second diagram of the box shows how you can make the craft solid when the lid is a folding part. It is necessary to produce it according to the algorithm described above.
Scrapbooking Commemorative Box
It is very pleasant to receive a gift from a loved one in not simple packaging, which should immediately be sent to the bin, but one that you want to keep for a long time. Scrapbooking can help create such a masterpiece. A surprise box will become not only a package, but a greeting card or even a photo album. And some manage to make it a repository of memorable things.
First, the template of the lower part of the craft is made. It will not stick together, hearts located between rectangular or square walls are folded inwards, so that a volumetric parallelepiped is obtained.
But the lid for the box should be done according to the algorithm of the glued box. This method is described above in the article.
After cutting, the master can begin the procedure for working on the box using the scrapbooking technique. Envelopes should be glued to the inside of the craft. They invest notes, money, photographs, commemorative newspaper clippings. Some people prefer to stick pictures directly on the walls of the box. You can decorate them with shells from the sea, where the addressee and the donor were together, dried flowers, beads and sequins.
The most important thing is usually placed in the center. It can be a small box with jewelry, a flower made of satin ribbons, inside which a car key is placed. You can put a ticket somewhere, a certificate for a purchase in a gift store, or something more original. Surprise the gifted will help box with a surprise.
Workshop “Origami Box”
Sometimes you want to make an offering memorable. Then for packing small gifts you can use the modular origami technique . A box with a surprise will look interesting and unusual.
- A square sheet of paper should be folded in half.
- Then it is deployed and each half bent inward so that the cut lines form a joint just in the middle line.
- The workpiece is turned over. Then its angle is bent diagonally. This must be done so that an acute angle of 45 degrees is formed.
- The same is done with a diagonally symmetrical angle. Now the wizard should get a parallelogram.
- The acute angles of the parallelogram are added to obtain right angles. Now in front of the master lies a square again.
- Such blanks will need 6 pieces. It is better to make them out of paper in different colors.
- Having straightened one of the corners of the square, the sharp end of the module is inserted into the square base of one side.
- In the same way, attach all the other sides of the box.
- The last wall is fixed after a surprise gift has already been placed inside.
It is very important to find warm touching words during giving. Then any gift will become several times more valuable and more expensive, and this day will be remembered for the long-time gifted one.