Have a crafty Christmas with Santa gift tubes
There is a lot of snipping for these little favour boxes, but making them will go quickly if you cut multiples of all the pieces, assembly-line style, using the templates. They are two-part boxes: one tube will serve as the inside sleeve and the other tube will become the outside Santa covering. Fill them with little toys and wrapped candies. What you need:
Scissors
2 small toilet paper tubes
Small scrap piece of cardboard
Pencil
White and/or hot glue
Red, white and black paper
1 white cupcake paper cup
Small hole punch (1/16” or1/8”) or a marker (for eyes) Directions 1. Enlarge and cut out all the Santa templates (available at thestar.com/ life). Wrap the Santa body template around one of the tubes and cut the pointy hat shape. Place that tube, uncut side down, on the scrap cardboard and trace two circles. Cut one circle inside the traced line; this is the top of Santa’s head. Test to see if it is a snug fit in the Santa tube.
Glue the circle inside the cut top of the tube to seal it. Cut the other circle outside the traced line to make a larger circle; set this aside for the base.
2. To make the inside tube base, cut half an inch off the length of the second toilet paper tube to shorten it. Cut the tube open lengthwise, overlap the ends about a quarter of an inch, and glue it closed. (Alternatively, if you have any skinnier tubes, such as from gift wrap, plastic swap or aluminum foil, or even from a different brand of toilet paper, those work well just as they are.) Glue this tube to the base circle.
3. Cut all the Santa clothes out of paper, using the templates, and glue them on as shown (red pieces first, then white centre stripe, then black belt). Cut the beard and hat out of ruffled cupcake paper cup, using the templates, and glue them on. Add the eyes.
4. Fill the base with treats, and slide Santa over the base. Buy the book Paper Goods Projects, $14.43
Excerpted from Paper Goods Project by Jodi Levine. Copyright © Jodi Levine, 2015. Photography copyright © Amy Gropp Forbes. Reproduced by arrangement with the publisher.