DIY Chinese Take Out Box Party Favors (With Cricut Iron-on) ⋆ The Quiet Grove

Looking for a fun Party Favor for your Chinese New Year Party?

Every party needs a good party favor. For this years Chinese New Year party I found this cool take out box design in Cricut Access in Design Space that I shrunk down (so I could get 3-4 per a page) and cut them out of white cardstock and used the same Chinese symbol for “pig” that I used on the napkins (get the DIY instructions for the napkins here) which I decorated the sides of the mini take out boxes with Red foil Iron-on. These take out boxes were the perfect size to fit a few small chocolate treats in and put out with fortune cookies as a party favor.

For those who wish to make these adorable little take out box party favors for another Chinese New Year Zodiac, I have included in this post the canvas links for all 12 of the Zodiacs.

Materials Needed:

Cricut Maker (or other Cricut Cutting Machines that work with Design Space)
Cricut Design Space Canvas for your desired Chinese New Year Take out box party favors (rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, & pig.)
12 x12 Standard Grip Mat
Fine Point Blade
Scoring Wheel
Cricut Essentials Tool Kit
Red Foil Iron-on
3 Sheets (12×12) White Cardstock **Makes 12 take out boxes
6×7 Easypress 2 & Mat
Glue or favored adhesive) I used liquid Glass adhesive which you can get at

Instructions:

Open Design Space Canvas for Chinese New Year Takeout Boxe Party Favors –> (rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, & pig.)

Select Cardstock for Intricate Cuts and load the Scoring Wheel into your Maker before loading the first sheet of cardstock on a standard Grip Mat into the Maker. (**The maker will always score first then cut)

After scoring switch out the scoring wheel for the fine point blade to cut.

Carefully remove the cut boxes carefully from the mat by peeling the mat from the cut cardstock

Change the material to Foil Iron-on, click mirror image for the iron-on mat and cut.

Using the weeding tool weed out excess Iron-on.

Heat the Easypress 2 to 270 and set time for 30 seconds.

Place the Cut Iron-on design on each piece of the Banner, then press with the Easypress 2 (using the easy press mat underneath) with firm pressure for 30 seconds.

Then peel off the protective backing off the iron on (Cricut recommends letting it cool first for a “cold peel”)

Fold boxes on score lines.

Use adhesive to attach the bottom and sides of each Takeout box.

Fill with small candies or chocolates. (**I fit 3 Hershey kisses in each box.)

I have to say I love how these turned out. The foil iron-on Chinese zodiac symbol just pops on the adorable small take out boxes. They were quite a hit at our party.