Kalash Box Template — Free Matka Pot Shaped Box, Any Size

The kalash box template, flat and folded

Kalash 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.

Kalash box folded up from the template — the finished box — The finished kalash box, made from it.

What this template is for

A box shaped like a kalash or matka pot: a round belly, a narrow neck and a flared rim, with a matching lid. Wedding and griha pravesh favours, puja and Diwali sweets, mithai and dry fruit.

Also called kalash box · matka box · pot shaped box · kalash favour box — all the same shape, and this is it.

Wedding and griha pravesh favours
Puja, Diwali and festival sweets
Mithai and dry fruit gifts
Self-help group and small seller packaging

How to use this template

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

Which file goes where: PDF, PNG, SVG or DXF

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 kalash 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 → · Putting your own design on it →

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 kalash box itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the steps never do. The names in capitals are the labels printed on the template.

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.
Step by step
1. Cut out the BASE, the BOX WALL, and the LID and LID WALL if you set a lid.
2. Crease the wall at the two corners of the rim.
3. Glue the wall strip round the BASE, curving it round the belly and in round the neck.
4. Fold the tabs in, set the base on them and glue.
5. Make the lid the same way.

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 kalash box

Where does the wall fold?

Only at the two corners of the rim. Round the belly it curves, and in at the neck, which is rounded so the wall can bend.

What size is the default box?

A pot 90 mm across the belly and 109 mm tall, 35 mm deep with a 15 mm lid. It prints on two A4 or US Letter sheets.

How do I decorate it like a kalash?

Print it on red, gold or saffron card, or with your own pattern, and glue a paper mango-leaf crown and a coconut cut-out above the rim of the lid. Keep them clear of the lid wall.