How to make a heart gift box
Heart Gift Box: try all 13 steps in the 3D player. Turn and replay every move. Print the complete diagram sheet or save it as PDF.
A heart-shaped gift box from one strip of card. Ten walls stand along the heart's outline, and a triangle under each wall folds in to make the heart-shaped floor.
- You need
- One strip of card, 23.8 × 6.8 cm, a ruler and pencil, scissors and tape.
- Start
- Use a strip of card, 23.8 × 6.8 cm, white side up. Starting 1.2 cm in from the left edge, mark ten walls across the top, 3 cm tall, with these widths in cm: 1.6, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5, 4.6, 4.6, 1.5, 1.5, 1.4, 1.6. Under each wall mark where the triangle's third corner goes: measure from the wall's bottom left corner along the bottom edge, then straight down. The ten points are 0.7 left and 0.5 down; 1.0 left and 2.2 down; 0.2 left and 3.2 down; 1.9 right and 3.1 down; 1.9 right and 2.5 down; 2.6 right and 2.5 down; 0.4 left and 3.1 down; 1.8 right and 3.2 down; 2.4 right and 2.2 down; 2.4 right and 0.5 down.
- Tips
- Measure the ten wall widths with a ruler, as they are all different.
- Score every crease with a ruler and a dull pencil point first.
- Fold the two corners at the lobes carefully: they are the wide ones.
Your model is ready
The heart box is open at the top. Tape the first wall to the last at the cleft. A lid cut to the heart's outline fits over it.
Step-by-step diagrams
Steps 1–7
- 1
Crease under the walls
Fold the lower part of the card up along the line under the walls. Press the crease and open it flat.
- 2
Crease the corner between walls 1 and 2
Fold the right side of the card back along the upright line between wall 1 and wall 2, counting from the left. Press the crease and open it flat.
- 3
Crease the corner between walls 2 and 3
Fold the right side of the card back along the upright line between wall 2 and wall 3, counting from the left. Press the crease and open it flat.
- 4
Crease the corner between walls 3 and 4
Fold the right side of the card back along the upright line between wall 3 and wall 4, counting from the left. Press the crease and open it flat.
- 5
Crease the corner between walls 4 and 5
Fold the right side of the card back along the upright line between wall 4 and wall 5, counting from the left. Press the crease and open it flat.
- 6
Crease the corner between walls 5 and 6
Fold the right side of the card back along the upright line between wall 5 and wall 6, counting from the left. Press the crease and open it flat.
- 7
Crease the corner between walls 6 and 7
Fold the right side of the card back along the upright line between wall 6 and wall 7, counting from the left. Press the crease and open it flat.
Steps 8–13
- 8
Crease the corner between walls 7 and 8
Fold the right side of the card back along the upright line between wall 7 and wall 8, counting from the left. Press the crease and open it flat.
- 9
Crease the corner between walls 8 and 9
Fold the right side of the card back along the upright line between wall 8 and wall 9, counting from the left. Press the crease and open it flat.
- 10
Crease the corner between walls 9 and 10
Fold the right side of the card back along the upright line between wall 9 and wall 10, counting from the left. Press the crease and open it flat.
- 11
Cut round the ten triangles
Cut down the left edge of the first wall, then along the outline of every triangle in turn, and up the right edge of the last wall. The card under and beside the triangles lifts away in one piece.
- 12
Fold the triangles in
Stand the whole strip of walls up and fold every triangle in at a right angle to its wall, so they stick out in a row.
- 13
Curl the walls into a heart
Curl the ten walls round into the shape of a heart, with the first and last walls meeting at the cleft. The triangles swing in together until all ten meet at one point and make the floor.
- ✓
Finish
The heart box is open at the top. Tape the first wall to the last at the cleft. A lid cut to the heart's outline fits over it.
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