• Home
  • About
  • Shop
    • SVG’s
      • Mother’s Day
      • Summer
      • Winter
      • Spring
      • Father’s Day
      • Sports
      • St. Patrick’s Day
      • Easter
      • Home
      • Wedding
      • School
      • Fall
      • Halloween
      • Kids
      • Thanksgiving
      • Christmas
      • New Year’s
      • Valentine’s Day
      • 4th of July – Patriotic
    • Holiday
      • Valentine’s Day
      • St. Patrick’s Day
      • Easter
      • Halloween
      • Christmas
      • Hanukkah
      • New Year’s
    • Sublimation
      • Spring
    • Party Packages
    • Magazine
  • DIY
  • Recipe
  • Freebies
  • Contact
  • Submissions
  • Cart
  • Privacy Policy and Disclosures

Everyday Party Magazine

  • About
  • Cart
  • Checkout
  • Contact
  • DIY
  • Freebies
  • Full Width
    • Home
  • Instagram Inspiration
  • Magazine
  • My Account
  • Privacy Policy and Disclosures
  • Recipes
  • Shop
  • Submissions
May 19, 2016

Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

If you decide to make a purchase through my links, I will be paid a small commission for it. This doesn’t cost you anything additional. These commissions help to keep the rest of my content free, so thank you!

Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY.  You guys, my third son is “graduating” from 5th grade.  As an infant, we were told by more than one doctor that he may not make it until his first birthday.  He was so very sick, all the time.  My husband and I are constantly awe struck by God’s grace and his strength.  He has grown, and developed, and I can promise you that you would not know at.all. that he was ever sick, let alone on the brink of death several times.  So, despite thinking 5th grade graduation is ridiculous, we celebrate…we celebrate his achievements, God’s grace, and our little boy.  

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Our son has a giving heart, he wants to give all of his friends gifts for every occasion.  And, while I love that he wants to give, ultimately, that money has to come from somewhere, so I want to make the gifts as affordable as possible.  And, the first thing I do when I am making affordable gifts is check Cricut for project ideas.  Unbelievably, there aren’t any graduation cap gift boxes.  So, I decided to make one, and I am sharing the simple DIY with you!

Supplies:

Cricut

Cricut Scoring Tool

12×12 Card Stock Paper

Tape Runner

Brass Fasteners

Baker’s Twine

Smarties Candies (or whatever candy/treat you want to add)

I have the project canvas saved, so all you need to do is go to here, and send it to the Cricut to cut.  Once your pieces are cut, you can get started.  

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

First, fold the tabs of the circles up.  There should be a score line inside the circle, this will help make folding the tabs much easier.   (You can see the faint score line in the image)

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Once the tabs are folded up, add a tape line to one side of the longest (narrow) strip of paper.  

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Then, stick the paper to the folded tabs of the LARGER circle.  Make sure to keep the edge of the paper strip flush with the edge of the circle.

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Repeat with the smaller circle and larger paper strip.

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Attach the square piece of paper to the larger circle to mimic a mortar board graduation cap.  Again, I used a tape runner for this. 

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Make a tassel.  Wrap baker’s twine around a piece of cardboard about 30 times, and then add a length of twine to create the hanger.  Next, wrap another section of twine around the top, to create a loop for the hanger, glue in place.  Finally, cut the larger loop on the bottom to create a tassel.  There are tons of great DIY’s online for yarn tassels if you need pictures.  

Carefully poke a hole in the top center of the mortar board.  Add the brass fastener, and loop the tassel hanger onto the fastener. 

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Fill with your favorite candy or treat! 

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Everyday Party Magazine Graduation Cap Gift Box DIY

Congrats to ALL the grads from the Class of 2016! 

 

 

Tags : Cricut, DIY, Everyday Party Magazine, graduation, Graduation Cap, Motar Board

In DIY
Previous Mother’s Day Brunch Simple DIY’s
Next Perfect Summer Playlist DIY

Related posts

VW bus shirt jeans

SVG Saturday Week 22 – School’s O...

DIY Lake Life Sign

Lake Life SVG Files

Everyday Party Magazine Farmhouse Sign DIY

Farmhouse Sign DIY

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Laura Kelly says

    May 19, 2016 at 8:41 am

    This is totally awesome sauce! I LOVE it so much!!! I need a Cricut now.

    • everydaypartymagazine says

      May 19, 2016 at 9:26 am

      You do need a cricut! Thank you, I was so happy it turned out like it was in my head 😉

  2. Kari says

    May 19, 2016 at 12:25 pm

    Can you tell me how long this took to make? I was thinking of making for my son’s 5th grade class and my older son’s 8th grade class for next week.

    • everydaypartymagazine says

      May 19, 2016 at 5:42 pm

      Hi Kari…I think it took me slightly longer than forever to make it, but I was photographing each step too. I would think you could realistically make one in 5-10 minutes. Definitely less if you have a helper, and once you get a rhythm going. I am making about 65 of them for my son’s school’s 5th grade class.

  3. Donna Budzynski says

    May 24, 2016 at 1:07 pm

    Super cute! Great job!

  4. Debra Quartermain says

    May 24, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    This turned out perfect! What a special grad gift!

Primary Sidebar

About

You could say my blogging journey is a little bit Erin Brockovich, and a whole lot creative mom...
read more

Be the first to know, sign up for our newsletter!

Thank you for subscribing!

  • About
  • Privacy Policy and Disclosures
  • Submissions
  • Contact

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

Copyright © 2025 Everyday Party Magazine · Theme by SheShoppes