Homemade crafty Christmas Boxes

Unfortunately, I don't have 6 boxes to show you as Alex took pictures of them on my phone as he loaded them into the car on Christmas morning!  oh and I forgot to photograph James box, but never mind I can still show you 4 boxes.

We have a large number of children in the family and some special friends, so this year, I thought up a different theme for each one of them.

I can't show you the pictures of :-  (due to husband's inability to use my mobile phone to take pictures and he calls himself a tech head (actually he is normally very good at tech stuff) it was my phone on the blink)

Lily's writing box
Maisie's cooking box
Kitty's knitting box
Josie's jungle box
Judah's joke box
Sami's safari box
James junk box (my fault)

I went to ikea and bought each box for 49p.  I then used some wonderful goodies of paper and letters that Greenbeanbaby sent me (thanks Ellia x) to decorate the tops of each of the boxes. 

A great buy was a childrens's fairy tale book that I bought for 10p which I used to cut out the pictures for the boxes.  The fairytales were all illustrated in different ways and so the pictures were different on each of the boxes.  I also used pictures from a 10p Star Wars book for Rupert and Judah's boxes!  What was nice is that all the children (apart from judah and sami) choose their own pictures.

Here are the results of the 4 out of 11 boxes I made for all the beautiful children so dear to the Jacques xx

Olivia's French box

 

Lois' little princess box

Zach's zoo box

Rupert's joke box

Lily opted for lots of pictures of different girls for her box.  Maisie went for a lovely picture of hansel and gretal.  Kitty had lots of ducks and Josie went for cats and all sorts of animals.

Each box cost around £8 in total. (£3 over bugget on each but who cares eh?)

Along with sweets, lollipops, flumps, pencils, selotape, felt tips, little boxes, chocolate coins, glitter, glue, each box contained special gifts...

I made Joke books for Judah and Rupert.  For Sami, Zach, Josie, Lois and James, I made insect books. 

I had such fun making the boxes.  I've got a great idea for next year and each will cost £5!

Comments

[Kristy]

They are fantastic boxes we really love!!

[weirdbunny]

Well done, christmas costs so much...
My God mother always made me stuff for christmas. My favourite gift was a pencil case that she made for me with my name embroidered one. I loved that pencil case.

[koria]

Did you come up with your word for this year? I have changed mine form the two-word "worry less" to one new word: "make". I think I'm quite happy with it... I love these boxes by the way.

[Heather]

All of these boxes are so creative and so nice!

[Joanna]

You are so clever! They turned out great. I'm sure the kids loved them.