DIY Geometric Favor Boxes

Instructions:

link to template here

Print the template onto thin cardboard stock or thick paper in the colors of your choice. We chose a set of strong colors, but these would also look super-cute in pastels or in gold, silver and/or bronze.

Cut out along the straight lines, then fold along the dotted lines. Make sure you crease all folds into the same direction: over the dotted lines, so these will be inside the box.

Try to assemble the box without gluing it first, so you can see which sides go where. The important sides to mark are the lid and the fold-over side (this is the last side to glue). You could mark those parts with a pencil line or a little piece of masking tape that you can remove in the end.

Now you can start to assemble the boxes with paper glue. Fold the last assembly piece (the one before the lid piece) into the box and fix with glue.

Cut out small strips of paper and add texts. We hand-wrote ours, but of course you can also print out some in a font of your choice. 

Now your boxes are ready to be filled with goodies. If you use heavy or breakable favors, add some thin strips of tissue paper to pad the boxes.

Big Leaf Printing

It's a project most people are familiar with.

I used the lid of my cake pan to hold the paint you are free to add colors as you liked...just a bit, spread around works very well.

Leaf
Then press a large leaf into the ink...I used a big leafed plant in my garden (I have no idea what it is)

Then we transfered the leaf to the paper. You need to press down all around the leaf...making sure to press all the way to the corners. It takes a minute or two to do this.

Carefully lift the leaf off the paper.

The results of the mixed colors are striking.

Chocolate Stout Shake

Ingredients
1/4 cup stout beer
1/2 cup prepared chocolate fudge ice cream topping
1/2 gallon vanilla bean ice cream
1 cup milk
6 purchased chocolate-and-nut-covered pretzel rods (optional)

Directions
In a small saucepan heat beer and chocolate topping until warm and combined. Cool slightly.

Meanwhile, in a blender combine ice cream and milk, half at a time. Cover and blend until combined. Divide ice cream mixture among 8 glasses. Drizzle with chocolate sauce and, if desired, serve with chocolate-covered pretzel rods. Makes 8 servings.