Locking Drawer Box Template — Free Glueless Drawer & Sleeve

The locking drawer box template, flat and folded

Locking drawer 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.

Locking drawer box folded up from the template — the finished box — The finished locking drawer box, made from it.

What this template is for

A drawer box that needs no glue in the drawer: double end walls lock into the floor, and two tongues ride in slits in the sleeve so the drawer stops instead of falling out, and clicks shut. Gifts, jewellery, chocolates, soap, cards and small keepsakes.

Also called locking drawer box · double wall drawer box · kraft drawer box · pull out drawer gift box — all the same shape, and this is it.

Gift and jewellery boxes
Chocolate, soap and candle packaging
Card, photo and keepsake boxes
Product and subscription packaging

How to use this template

All four downloads are the same locking drawer 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 locking drawer 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 locking drawer 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
Score every dashed line and cut the two slits and slots. Drawer: fold the side walls up and their corner flaps in, fold each end wall up, then over its top strip and down inside, pushing its two tabs into the slots in the floor. Leave the half-round tongues at the bottom of the side walls flat, sticking out. Sleeve: glue the tab under the far side to make a tube. Slide the drawer in from the back, pressing the tongues flat, until they pop out into the slits.

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 locking drawer box

How does the drawer stop?

A half-round tongue is cut into the bottom of each side wall near the back. When the wall folds up the tongue stays flat and sticks out sideways, and it runs in a slit along the bottom of the sleeve. The drawer opens as far as the slit is long, 55 mm by default, then stops. Closed, the tongue clicks into a round hole at the end of the slit.

Does the drawer need glue?

No. Each end wall is double: it folds over a narrow top strip and down inside, and two tabs push into slots in the floor. The side walls’ corner flaps are trapped between the two layers. Only the sleeve has one glued seam.

Can I take the drawer out?

Yes. Pull it to the stop, press the two tongues flat against the drawer and slide it out. Put it back the same way, from the back of the sleeve. At the default size, a drawer 95 × 55 × 25 mm, the drawer and the sleeve each fit an A4 or US Letter sheet.