Candy Corn Box

A triangular candy corn box: yellow bottom, orange middle, white tip, and a smile. There’s a little door at the back: you put candies inside, and the side tabs hold it shut without glue.

• Medium
• 4 pieces
• 22 mm — depth
• 1 door without glue

Make it with your phone cameraLesson code: 7626

On VanGami the template appears over your sheet through your phone camera — no printer needed. Trace it, cut, fold and glue. Below are all the steps in text.

What you’ll need

• Letter sheet — office paper, 80 gsm (20 lb)
• Markers
• Pencil — and eraser
• Ruler — 8–12 in
• Empty pen — to score the folds
• Scissors — small
• Glue stick — or PVA glue
• Glass — phone stand

Steps

Trace

1. Front and door: outlines. Two triangles — one with its tip up, the other with its tip down — and tabs around each one. Put dots at the corners and draw the straight lines with a ruler.
2. Front and door: folds. The sides of both triangles are dashed: you fold the tabs along them.
3. Front and door: drawing. On both triangles, draw two lines across, the borders of the stripes. On the one with its tip up, also draw the eyes, smile and cheeks: that’s the front.
4. Walls: outlines. Two identical long strips — draw them with a ruler.
5. Walls: drawing. On each strip, draw three lines across. The first one on the left is the bottom corner of the box, and to the left of it is the bottom.

Color

6. Color: front and door. On both triangles, the wide part up to the first line — yellow, the middle — orange; leave the tip white. On the front, the eyes — black, the cheeks — pink. Don’t color the tabs.
7. Color: walls. From the first line to the second — yellow, to the third — orange; leave the right end white. Don’t color the bottom to the left of the first line — it won’t be visible.

Cut

8. Cut out: front and door — 2 pcs. Cut out both triangles together with the tabs. Cut the straight edges along a ruler; between the tabs of neighboring sides, cut down the middle.
9. Cut out: wall — 2 pcs. Cut out both strips along a ruler.

Fold

10. Fold the tabs. Score the dashed lines with an empty ballpoint pen along a ruler and fold all the tabs of both triangles to the back — to a right angle.

Glue

11. Glue on the walls. Place the front drawing side down with the tabs pointing up; put glue on the outside of the tabs. Lay a strip against one side with the orange part closer to the tip: the white end, after the orange, goes exactly into the tip. At the bottom corner, fold it along the edge of the yellow — the bottom will lie on the bottom tab. Do the second strip the same way on the other side.
12. Door. Put glue only on the bottom tab of the door and glue it to the bottom from the inside: the fold goes exactly along the back edge, the drawing faces out. Don’t glue the side tabs.

Assemble

13. Candies, then close. Put small candies inside. Close the door: bend the side tabs inward — they slip under the walls and hold it shut without glue.

Check

14. Stand it up. Stand the box on its bottom — the candy corn is ready. To open it: pry up the door at the back by its tip.

Done. The box is done. To open it, pry up the door by its tip — the side tabs will pop out on their own.

Make it with your phone camera

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