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Every since Jo came up with her crayon party invitation idea, where she made customizable labels to add to regular crayons, I’ve been wanting to make a template for a custom crayon box to put them in. I finally got around to it, and I want to share it with you.
The template I made for this project is in Microsoft Word format, and the text is completely customizable. Once you’ve downloaded the Word template, just click on the text areas and edit the sample text. You can customize the box with your child’s name and age on the front, and add all the party details on the back.
When you have the template customized just the way you want it, print it onto white cardstock. You’re also going to need 8 crayons for the box (we suggest buying a 64 pack and splitting it up). You might want to dress them up with Jo’s custom crayon labels or you can leave them as they are.
Cut the box out along the black lines. Be sure to cut in on the notches at the top and bottom of the box, but only cut as far as the black lines go.
After you cut the box out, fold it along all the thin white lines (a bone folder makes this easier).
There’s only one place on this box that needs adhesive, and that’s the long flap attached to the back of the box. You can use any double-sided tape or adhesive you like, but for stuff like this, I like to use a strip of the double-sided tape sheets that we sell in our Amazon store. After sticking it in place, you just peel away the red liner to expose the adhesive on the other side.
The easiest way to line up the flap to form the box is to start by folding the back of the box over so that it does NOT cover the flap, then fold the flap over top and press down. This should line it up perfectly.
Now you can just fold in the bottom flap and your box is ready to fill.
Isn’t that one of the cutest invitations you’ve ever seen? It’s perfect for an crayon-themed party for the kids or for any art-themed event.
54 comments so far:
OMG!!!! thank you I love this!!!!
Oh, how cute is that?! I wish I’d had this when my daughter was younger, for her “color” birthday. Great for an invitation or party favors!
Love this, great idea for a Birthday Art Party. Thanks! This may need to get featured on my blog (with lovely link backs of course)
the crayon box and wrappers is just the greatest ever, thank you soooooooooooo very very much
I will treasure it for ever.
Marlene
Ladies, thank you all for the nice comments about this project! Shauna, we’d love to be a part of your blog
Fabulous project! Thanks very much for sharing it.
Haha!! I’m twelve years old and my birthday day is next month and IM even going to use this!!! Thanks
Kristina, we’re so glad you like this idea enough to use it for your birthday. I took a quick look at your blog and you have great writing skills. I’m quite impressed with your dedication to protecting the environment, especially at such a young age. Have you seen our green project ideas? Hopefully one or two of them can inspire you. (P.S. The Chevy Volt is really amazing, but I’m a Nissan Leaf gal myself!)
this is so cool! i’m 13 and i want to use this! i might use it for my end of the school year party! i made chunky crayons and i think this will be so much fun (and all my friends will enjoy it!) thank you so much!!! =)
Sounds fun, Emily. Have a great party!
Question, will this template work for the pretezls too?
Vicky, this box is sized to fit regular crayons. The chocolate covered pretzels we shared with you before would be too big to fit.
This is fantastic. I will use them for one of my end of the year gifts to my preschoolers.
What a great idea, Tamara!
Do you think I can modify it and make a smaller box from this so I can put in 4 crayons since my son is turning 4? his party is not until february but i already have centerpieces and about 100 boxes of crayons bought last year at walmart back to school special lol…
Gladys, you can try modifying it, but why not just put 4 crayons in the full-size box, so that it still has the look and size of a real crayon box? Kudos to you for your fantastic planning ahead skills
I just had an art party fo my daughter. These would have been fabulous as the invites. Oh well, I have other ideas on how to use them.
I love this idea and plan on using for my daughter’s 3rd Birthday, how did you make the box for the pretzel crayons??? I love them!!!!
We did not design the box used in the pretzel crayons we shared with you previously. One of our readers, Kathy, made hers using a box template from this site. But you can definitely use our template in this post to hold regular crayons!
Thanks for sharing this proyect!!
My older sister Sharon LOVES crayola crayons and always has. We tease her about it — but she has every sort of crayon product they make! So, for her 69th birthday we’re preparing invitation boxes and crayons for everyone. She’s going to be so pleased, and we’ll have a great time seeing her surprise! Thank you so much.
What a perfect match, Kathy!
Thanks for the idea! Our party was a hit. Details and ideas are here on my blog:
http://weightandleanonhim.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/crazy-about-crayola/
really good ideas congratulation and thank-you for the tips…
Hi, I have a question I hope you all can help me…I am using this template to create my son’s invitations but since I did not want to waste so much ink I thought of printing it on yellow paper and only using green ink for the details…i have tried to ‘remove’ the yellow color from the word document image but no success…will i be able to do that? thanks so much!
Hi Gladys. It’s very clever of you to try printing on yellow paper to save on ink. I’ve created another version of our template for you with the yellow removed, and you can download it here. I’m not sure how good the green and red printing will look on top of the yellow paper, but give it a shot and let us know how it goes!
Yay!! Thanks so much!!
I thought the same thing about the red n the green…I’m hoping I can adjust the colors so it can print correctly…we’ll see how it goes…I’ll let u all know very soon! Thanks again!!
Hi there I love this idea and was going to use them for my wedding, is there any way to change the colors so that I can get them to match my wedding colors?
Thanks in advance!
Chica,
I just printed out a copy using the blank template n i think it looks pretty good…the red comes out perfect…u can’t really notice any difference the light green is good too…the only one that it’s a bit dark is the dark green…perhaps one shade too dark but i think it works…:) thanks so much for ur help!! where can i send u a pic? or upload the copy?
Hi, I love this idea and will be using it for my daughters 3 birthday, Ita a zoo theme party but these will be the thank you gifts! Love it!!!
So glad it worked out for you, Gladys! If you have a Flickr account, you can upload a picture to our Flickr group for reader photos. If not, you can email it to us at chicaandjo@chicaandjo.com and we can post it there for you.
Cristina, that sounds like a fun idea! Our template’s box colors are not editable. We designed it to look like a traditional crayon box, thus the yellow and green. You might try cutting one out and tracing it onto other colors of cardstock?
This is such a great template! We used it to make a birthday card to go with the Crayon monogram we made for my daughter’s Pre K teacher.
Now we’re using it as Valentines for her Kindergarten class. It’s holding her repurposed heart shaped crayon.
On the back we added a note about the book, “The Crayon Box that Talked”.
Hopefully you can see the picture:
http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a1ce03b3127ccefe38abef8db300000030O08AcOGTRu3ZNAe3nwc/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D550/ry%3D400/
Love the picture, Monette. Thanks for sharing!
I made these invitations for my son’s second birthday party. They turned out so cute and what compliments I got on them. Thank you!!!!!
I LOVE this! I’m graduating with my degree in Child Development, and I wanted to make invites that are more focused on my major! I am definitely using this template to make invites!
Thank you!
Trisha, we love seeing people come up with unexpected uses for our projects, and you’ve certainly done that. Congratulations on your degree and best of luck in your career!
i have a really silly question…….. how do you mail these invitations?? I am looking to do this for my daughter’s 2nd birthday and I love the idea!!
Coleen, I would recommend putting the box into a small bubble mailer and sending it via regular USPS First Class Mail. Be sure to weigh it at the post office so that you put the correct postage on it.
I love this! I am going to customize this as favors for children at my wedding!!
Thanks for the fantastic template! It’s perfect.
So I am trying to print these cute invites and I’m having an issue. Not very computer savy! How do you get the wording on top of the crayon box??
Belisha, when you download the template, be sure to open it in Microsoft Word. Then you can click on any of the default words in the template, which will make an outline appear around them. Then you can edit the text there to be whatever you like.
I downloaded it in Microsoft word. Then I had 2 boxes appear where I can put my information in and below that is another box with the crayon box. How do I get my wording inside the crayon box? I’ve tried copy and paste and that doesn’t work. Sorry, like I said I am horrible when it comes to computers:(
Belisha, I’m sorry to hear that you’re still having trouble. To change the name, click right on the word “NAME” in the template, between a couple of the letters. You should see a cursor (a vertical line) appear wherever you clicked. Then use the “backspace” and “delete” keys to remove the characters that are there by default, and type in your own instead. When you have that looking right, move on the other areas of text (“is turning”, “8″, etc…). Hope that helps!
Yes, I have all of my information in the boxes. But the info doesn’t appear in the crayon box. When I print I have 2 sheets. One is my info and the other is a blank crayon box. I’m wondering what I’m doing wrong?
Omg! I just opened it up on my iPhone and it’s totally different! The info is actually in the crayon box! I just emailed it to myself so hopefully I can make it work on my home computer! Thanks for your help:)
Nope it is still not opening right:( looks like I’m going to have to find something else. Thanks for your help.
Belisha, I’m so sorry you’re still having trouble. I’m afraid I’m out of ideas without actually looking at the template on your computer. If you got different results on your phone, maybe there’s an issue with Word on your computer? Perhaps you can try on a friend’s computer?
This is so adorable but I can’t get it to download right. All that comes up is the front of the box template. What am I doing wrong?
Cindy, when the template opens, perhaps you have it zoomed in, and are only seeing a portion of the page? Try to see if you can zoom out or “fit to screen”.
Great idea! Thank you! Just what I wanted for my college graduation invites (graduating with an education degree)!!
Thank you for this great idea! Question! Did you hand deliver these or did you put the invitations in the mail? I want to mail mine but im not sure how this will work? Thanks
Candace, if you want to mail these, I suggest using a small bubble envelope to help keep them from getting damaged in the mail.