Tinker advent calendar with boxes

Sophie Pester and Catharina Bruns of "Supercraft" share creative ideas and projects in our new DIY series.

Stick together four papers with tape on the back to form a large square - preferably along the entire length.

Fold all four corners to the middle. Always trim the edges with your fingernail.

Now fold two pages along the middle. Turn around.

Fold the two narrow sides to the middle as well. Turn around.

Now unfold the paper. There are two small triangles pointing upwards.

At these small corners pull until the sides are folded out of each other.

Fold the pages (see arrows on the left) inwards - left ...

... and right, so that two corners arise.

Fold over the large point and tighten the edges with the fingertips.

Repeat on the other side and fix the tips on the floor with a piece of adhesive tape.

For the bottom of the box you need a smaller base square. Simply cut off on each side of each of the four squares about 5 mm (marked pink) and then glue together.

Done is a small box of paper! From only one square you can fold very small boxes.

Finished are the pretty gift boxes! 24 boxes and numbered adhesive dots make a great advent calendar.

The kit with all materials and instructions can be ordered on DaWanda. You can also find nice paper in the supercraft shop on DaWanda.

In the kit there are more materials and instructions for great DIY projects. Have fun crafting!

What is "Supercraft"?

"Supercraft" are bimonthly DIY kits - you get creative manual work projects incl. Instructions and material regularly sent home. "Supercraft" is right for you, if you love surprises, like to do beautiful things yourself and you do not want to worry about the accessories.

This is Sophie and Catharina

Sophie Pester and Catharina Bruns are passionate entrepreneurs and self-makers. They founded the companies Supercraft and Lemon Books together, organize the hello handmade design market, publish the interview series "superwork" (together with the free author Alicia Metz) and are behind the workisnotajob project. The book of the same name "work is not a job - what work is, you decide!" has been published by Campus Verlag in 2013. They live and work in Berlin. In our series of voices Sophie and Catharina have a contribution to the topic Mach more! written.