A five-point star box, for holiday gifts or party favors, a few chocolates, a small candle, earrings. We do it in printed cardstock or rigid board, lid or fold-shut, and gold foil looks great on it. You can often start at around 50 boxes, depending on the style.
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On a shelf full of rectangles, the star gets picked up first. That’s the whole idea behind custom star shaped boxes. Christmas ornaments go in them, and Fourth of July favors, birthday party loot, candles and truffles and jewelry too. Mostly it’s shops that want the thing to feel like a present before anybody’s even opened it.
Fair warning, a star is fussier than a cube. You’ve got five points and ten little angled walls, so there’s more folding and more glue, and you have to think harder about what goes in it. Done well, though, people keep them. A star box tends to end up on a dresser holding earrings long after the chocolate is gone.
We make two kinds. One’s a folding cardstock star, walls come up from the base and a star lid drops on top, light and cheap and it prints nicely, so we’d use it for favors and treats and small holiday stuff. The other’s rigid. Thick board wrapped in printed or textured paper, lift-off lid, and it’s got real weight to it, which is why people put jewelry or fancy chocolate or keepsakes in it.
How big? Anywhere from about 3 inches across, enough for two truffles or a pair of earrings, up to 8 or 10 inches for a small candle or a gift set. Measure the widest part of your product. Those points look roomy but they’re not, you can’t really put anything in them. The real room is the pentagon in the middle.
Here’s the catch with stars. Round and square items don’t fill the shape, so they slide around unless something holds them. We fix it with an insert that has a cutout in the middle. Chocolates are the fun one, a star tray with a little cavity in each point, five pieces, none touching, and it looks really good when the lid comes off. Candle tin or a jar? We’d raise it on a little platform so it can’t tip into a point.
Shredded paper fill is the cheap option for party favors with mixed contents, and honestly, it works fine for those. For anything breakable, ask for a fitted insert.
Holiday stars tend to go metallic, honestly. Gold or silver foil on the lid, or holographic if it’s a party thing, and we really like spot UV on a dark navy background, the pattern flickers as you turn the box. For jewelry in a rigid star, soft-touch feels nice and velvety. Kraft stock with a single-color print looks good for rustic or handmade brands.
Our designers build the star dieline and place your artwork across the panels at no cost, which matters on a shape like this since artwork can easily land upside down on half the side walls. You’ll get a digital proof, and a physical sample on request. Production takes 10 to 12 business days after approval, ground shipping in the USA is free, and price per box drops as quantities rise. For more shapes and closures, see our box styles, or look at cube gift boxes if you want a simpler build. Holiday orders might fit with our Christmas gift boxes, and the wider gift box range has more ideas. Our gift box sizes guide helps with measurements.
About 3 inches across is a practical minimum for a folding star. Smaller than that and the side walls get too narrow to fold cleanly.
Yes, a small tin or votive fits well in a rigid star with a raised insert. Jar candles over about 8 oz usually need a larger star or a different shape.
Folding cardstock stars ship flat. Rigid star boxes are made already set up, so they ship assembled and take more space.
Similar options include five panel hanger boxes, custom gable boxes, custom sleeve boxes and custom tray packaging. Browse all of them in by style.
