A lid and base box for Christmas, in paperboard or corrugated, or rigid board if it’s a fancier gift, printed with your own holiday art. Bakers fill them with cookies, candle makers with gift sets, companies with client presents. Want a window or a ribbon slot in the lid? We can do that.
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October is when the calls start. Everybody wants pretty much the same thing for December, a box that looks festive and keeps the gift safe and doesn’t need wrapping paper, because nobody on your team has time to wrap four hundred cookie tins in the week before Christmas. Custom Christmas boxes with lids get you there. Lift the lid, there’s the gift.
Bakeries put fudge and cookie assortments in them. We see a lot of candle trios, and clothing brands doing a scarf or a sweater, and then the big corporate orders for client gifts. Why a lid? It just feels like a present when you open it (and people keep the box for next year, we hear that constantly).
So what’s going inside, and is it being handed over or mailed? That pretty much picks the board for you. Cookies and light treats are fine in folding paperboard. Heavier sets or anything that has to survive the post, go corrugated.
Paperboard is the cheapest and comes flat, which matters if you need a few hundred and your storage is a back room the size of a closet. Rigid is the opposite, really, it shows up already built and takes a lot of space, but put a foil logo on one and it looks like serious money, which is why it’s the usual pick for corporate gifting. Corrugated sits in the middle. Practical. Mail-proof.
Red, green, a snowflake, maybe a pine sprig. Honestly half the Christmas boxes out there look like that, and yours can end up looking like a stock box from a big box store if you’re not careful. Our usual advice is to keep your own brand colors and add just one holiday accent, not go full red and green. Print something fun on the inside of the lid, because that’s what they see first. A bit of gold or silver foil on the logo is nice too, it twinkles under tree lights, no joke.
We can emboss a little star or snowflake on the lid if you like a bit of texture. Selling all year? Think about a winter look instead of a straight Christmas one (snow, pine, candlelight), since that still works from mid-November into January and you’re not stuck with a pallet of Santa boxes on December 26.
Cookie people love a window in the lid, folks can see what’s inside without peeking. Line it with glassine or wax paper. Packing a few kinds of cookie together? Use a divider tray, otherwise the soft ones go stale sitting next to the gingerbread and the gingerbread goes soft, and nobody’s happy.
Glass ornaments and candles want a fitted insert, one slot each, so nothing clinks. For picking dimensions our gift box sizes guide helps a lot. You might also want our Christmas cookie boxes, or Christmas mailer boxes if the gifts are going out by mail, and there’s the whole line of Christmas packaging boxes too.
Earlier than you’d think. Production itself is 10 to 12 business days once you approve the proof, but design back and forth eats time, so October is the sweet spot.
We’d go rigid for client gifts, it just feels heavier and nicer in the hand. Big volume where storage and cost matter more? Paperboard.
Yes. Size it to your biggest item and fill the smaller ones out with tissue or a swap-in insert, one artwork, one order, simple.
Brands ordering these often look at christmas shipping boxes for holiday delivery, custom christmas mailer boxes, custom christmas favour boxes and custom holiday boxes as well. You can see the full range in christmas packaging boxes.
