Who doesn’t love a special decoration box made just for them? Homemade Santa boxes are easy to make with a Cricut. Learn how to make Santa boxes here.

Do you like to give small gifts to friends, neighbors, and teachers during the holiday season?

These are some of my favorite gifts to make and give.

There is something so personal in a handmade gift.

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Supplies You’ll Need to Create this Project:

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Cricut Maker or Explore
Cricut Design Space Project Canvas
StandardGrip Mat
Cricut Pen
Scoring Wheel or Scoring Stylus
Cardstock in white, pinks, and black
Bone Folder
Adhesive

Cut the File in Cricut Design Space:

The file to make this Santa box is completely ready to go! Simply click here and you will be taken to Cricut Design Space.

I have the file sized to fit a candy bar with a width of about 2 inches.

This is a perfect size, for Reece’s, Twix, and Hershey bars.

If this size works for you then you can click on Make It.

If you need to adjust the sizing, click on customize.

Make sure to highlight the entire design when resizing so all of the pieces will still fit together.

Watch the tutorial video near the bottom of this post for resizing tips.

This design uses 5 different colors of cardstock. White, black, red, pink, and beige.

Each color layer will automatically be put on its own mat when you go to cut the design.

Assembling the Santa Box:

Lay all of the pieces in front of you.

Begin by layering the Santa face, starting on the black base piece.

First lay the white piece with the beard on top of the black piece. You want to make sure everything facing the direction.

Apply glue to the back of the white beard piece and press it into place.

Next, add the pinkish beige face, followed by the top rim of the hat.

Lastly, apply the round reddish cheeks.

You will still have a small black dot, a larger white dot, and a Merry Christmas Banner piece. These will be added in a bit.

Using a bone folder, fold the scorelines of the box.

using a bone folder to fold the score lines of the box

The bone folder helps you to get nice crisp folds for the box.

Apply adhesive to the back of Santa and apply him to the front of the box.

Now you can adhere the small black button, the white circle at the top of Santa’s hat, and the Merry Christmas Banner to the bottom of the box.

Apply some adhesive to the bottom flap tab, fold in and secure it into place.

That’s it! The Santa Box is done!

All that is left is to add the candy! There, now he is complete.

I also made a larger box that can hold a small bag of candy like Hi-Chew!

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Our Crafting Essentials List:

The Cricut Cutting Machine is easily our favorite crafting tool. We use it in so many of our tutorials!
This Fiskars Paper Trimmer is easy to use and cuts nicely without frayed edges.
These Scotch Precision Scissors cut like a dream and you get multiple pairs in a pack!
Keep those started project supplies organized and separated with Stacking Plastic Baskets. I always work on more than 1 project at a time and these baskets really help me from losing supplies.

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