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Star Shaped Box Template

A star-shaped box with any number of points. Christmas decorations, party favours, award and gift boxes.

Star box — change shape

Units
Dimensions
Optional parameters
Only here Your own design

Put a logo, photo or pattern straight onto the box — most free template sites give you the outline and stop there. Drag it where you want it; it is trimmed to the cut lines so nothing prints off the card, and it stays in your browser.

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Bigger than the paper? Each piece prints whole on its own sheet. A single piece is never split: pick bigger paper or a smaller size. More about printing

Template

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Drop a picture anywhere on the drawingTap “Add a picture” below to print your own design on this box.

Print at 100% (“actual size”), never “fit to page”, or the box comes out the wrong size.

The star box template, flat and folded

Star 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.
Star box folded up from the template — the finished box
The box it folds into.

What this template is for

A star-shaped box with any number of points. Christmas decorations, party favours, award and gift boxes.

Also called star-shaped box · star gift box · christmas star box — all the same shape, and this is it.

How to use this template

All four downloads are the same star 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 star 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

  1. Type your size above, then download the PDF.
  2. Print at 100% — never “fit to page”, or every measurement comes out wrong.
  3. 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 star box itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the three steps never do.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. BASEBOX WALL(glue)LIDLID WALL(glue)

    Fold, glue and hold

    The wall has a fold line at every point of the star — crease them all before you start. Points fold one way, the notches between them fold the other.

Glue: a glue stick for paper, white PVA on card — hold each seam thirty seconds, and let the box dry standing up.

Questions about the star box

How do I change how spiky the star is?
The point sharpness setting is how far in the notches cut between the points. Lower numbers give long thin spikes, higher numbers give a fat, chunky star.
Which way do the wall folds go?
They alternate. The folds at the tips of the star fold one way and the folds at the notches between them fold the other. Crease every line before you assemble anything.
Why is the wall one long strip instead of separate walls?
A single strip has one glued seam instead of one per point. On a ten-edged star that is the difference between one join and ten.

Print your own design on it

Add a logo, photo or pattern in the panel on the left and drag it onto the star 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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