In this tutorial I will show how to make a shallow origami box, it’s the same method as an origami Masu Box, except the sides are short, making it nice and wide.
Makes a great gift box! You can customise the size really easy.
Difficulty ★★☆☆☆
You will need:
Square paper, I used 21cm x 21cm
For the Lid, when folding at 1:50 fold about 1-2mm less.
A Photo Tutorial is available on the Origami Photo Tutorials page.
Click here to learn how to make this origami bow.
Click here to learn how to make the shallow rectangular origami box.
Hi Chrissy
I need to make some shallow boxes and im a little stuck. The boxes need to be 6.5cm x 6.5cm x 2cm exactly…any idea on what size paper i need to be starting with and do i do the side fold to 2cm to get that size in the end?
Hi, I don’t really have time right now to test it but from what I could work out, you’d need to use 15 x 15 cm paper. Then when you have folded all the corners in (like at 1:39 in the video above), get a ruler, line the bottom edge along the ruler, so that the bottom left corner is at 0 on the ruler.
Then fold the left edge to the right, to 4 on the ruler.
Do the same from the right edge, instead put the bottom right corner at 4, and fold it left to 0 on the ruler. Same on the other sides. 😀 Just a neat way without marking with a pencil, which you could also do 😛