Where does the wall fold?

Only at the cap’s two top corners. Where the cap meets the ball the outline is rounded, so the wall curves in there and all the way round the ball.

Can I hang it on the tree?

Yes. Make a small hole in the cap of the lid with a pin or punch, thread a ribbon or ornament hook through, and hang it from the lid. Keep what is inside light.

What size is the default box?

A ball 80 mm across with its cap, 35 mm deep with a 15 mm lid, on two A4 or US Letter sheets. Print it in red, green or gold, or with your own Christmas pattern.

Bauble Box Template — Free Christmas Ornament Shaped Box

The bauble box template, flat and folded

Bauble box template — free printable dieline with cut and fold lines, any size — The printable dieline at its standard size. Type your own size above for yours.

Bauble box folded up from the template — the finished box — The finished bauble box, made from it.

What this template is for

A Christmas bauble (ornament) shaped box: a round ball with its cap on top, and a matching lid. Christmas favours, Secret Santa and tree-shaped gift sets.

Also called ornament box · christmas ornament shaped box · bauble shaped box · christmas ball box — all the same shape, and this is it.

Christmas favours and stocking fillers
Secret Santa and office gifts
Christmas table place gifts
Tree-hung gift boxes

How to use this template

All four downloads are the same bauble box at the same size — only the format changes.

PDF printing at home: Print at 100 per cent, or hand it to a print shop as "actual size, no scaling".
PNG 300 dpi Canva, Photoshop, Procreate: Upload, lock it in place and design your bauble box on top. Free plan and phone included. Full Canva walkthrough →
SVG Cricut, Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity: Vector, with cuts, folds and labels on separate layers. Cricut and Silhouette walkthrough →
DXF Silhouette, laser and vinyl cutters: Two layers, CUT and FOLD — and the one free Silhouette Studio Basic will open.

Getting it printed properly →

Printing it

Type your size above, then download the PDF.
Print at 100% — never “fit to page”, or every measurement comes out wrong.
Too big for the paper? Pick your paper size and leave Fit the pieces to the page ticked: each piece gets its own place on a sheet and the PDF comes out with every page in it, nothing cut in half and nothing to tape.

How to put it together

These pictures are the bauble box itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the three steps never do.

Cut the solid lines
Every solid line is a cut. Do the inside shapes first, while the sheet is still whole and easy to hold.
Score every dashed line
Dashed lines are folds. Score each one first — an empty ballpoint against a ruler — or the card cracks along the outside of the bend.
Fold, glue and hold
Glue the wall strip round the base, creasing it at the two top corners of the cap and curving it round the ball and the rounded joins either side of the cap. Fold the tabs in, set the base on them and glue. Make the lid the same way, and thread a ribbon through a hole in the cap to hang it.

Glue: a glue stick for paper, white PVA on card — hold each seam thirty seconds, and let it dry before you use it.

Questions about the bauble box

Where does the wall fold?: Only at the cap’s two top corners. Where the cap meets the ball the outline is rounded, so the wall curves in there and all the way round the ball.
Can I hang it on the tree?: Yes. Make a small hole in the cap of the lid with a pin or punch, thread a ribbon or ornament hook through, and hang it from the lid. Keep what is inside light.
What size is the default box?: A ball 80 mm across with its cap, 35 mm deep with a 15 mm lid, on two A4 or US Letter sheets. Print it in red, green or gold, or with your own Christmas pattern.

Print your own design on it

Add a logo, photo or pattern in the panel on the left and drag it onto the bauble box. It is trimmed to the cut outline, embedded properly in the PDF, and never leaves your computer — most free template sites hand you the outline and stop there. How printing your own design works.

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