Wedding Favor Candy Boxes

Whether youre giving out cookies, candy, candles, bath fizzies or other choices for party favors at your wedding youll need a container for them. There are lots of different ways to package the party favors but none so pretty - and easy - as a homemade candy box. Since the boxes can be made as long or short, deep or shallow as you want, theyre perfect for most any type of party favor.

When you use a simple technique to make the boxes youll see that you can, over the years, make many different kinds, for many different occasions. Start by drawing a square or rectangle on a piece of cardstock. Its easy to find cardstock to match or coordinate with your wedding colors. To make a perfect square or rectangle on the cardstock use something you have at home, like a box, can, basket or other object. Draw around it but dont cut out the shape.

Cut a paper or thin cardboard pattern to make the sides of the box. To do this, draw a triangle and cut it out. The bottom of the triangle should be the same size as one of the short sides of the rectangle or one side of the square. If youre making a square-bottom box, just cut one triangle, but if youre making a rectangle design, cut a triangle to fit the short sides as well as another to fit the long sides of the rectangle. Youll decide how tall the triangle will be according to what youre packaging. For a square-bottom box, lay the triangle bottom against one side of the box, then draw around it. Do this to all four sides. For the rectangle-bottom box, draw a short triangle on each short side and a long triangle on each long side. Cut out the finished drawing. Poke a hole at each tip of each triangle. Fold one of the triangles over and crease the line where it meets the square or rectangle shape of the cardstock. Do this to all four sides. Set the party favor on the box bottom and pull two opposite sides up and together. Thread a ribbon through the two holes and tie it once. Bring the other two sides up and together, thread the ribbon through, and tie this ribbon in a bow. Arrange it so that all four ribbon ends come together under the bow. The miniature candy boxes work great to hold any number of party favors and theyre not difficult to make. Plus, cardstock is very inexpensive so the wedding favors wont be costly. When theyre all aligned on a table for the guests to take they make a lovely arrangement of colorful boxes and bows - and they conceal a special gift inside each one!