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Unicorn Valentine Box The Best DIY Valentine Card Box

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This Unicorn Valentine Box just might be the cutest thing ever. There’s no denying that the bright colors and shiny materials will have everyone voting this DIY Unicorn box for the best Valentine box of the year.

And the best part? It’s really easy to make. Just gather up the recycled materials and simple craft supplies below to get started. You’ll be ready to set up for a fun Valentine’s Day with this gorgeous Unicorn Valentine Card Box before you know it!

The next time you see it, it’ll be stuffed full of cards and treats!

Unicorn Valentine’s Day Box

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Unicorn Valentine Box

If you’re stressing out about Valentine box ideas, rest easy knowing that this Valentine’s Day Box is certain to be a hit. After all, who doesn’t love unicorns? They’re adorable, full of pretty colors, and they’re all about magic and rainbows.

Once you start creating this sweet Unicorn Valentine Box with your child, you’re going to find out that making a homemade card box isn’t hard at all!

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

How to Make a Unicorn Box

What you will need to make your Valentine Card Box is in this picture below. However, I have it displayed in a recipe list form to print out towards the bottom of the page. Have Fun!

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

How do you make a unicorn card box?

Making a Unicorn Card Box isn’t hard at all! Just gather up your supplies and follow the simple steps below.

Supplies needed:

  • Smallish, squarish box, the one used here is about 6 inches square if your box is not already the color you want you can wrap it in paper or paint it.
  • Triangle party hat – they work perfectly as the unicorn’s horn with no printer or tricky cutting needed!
  • Ribbons or gift bow
  • Hot glue gun
  • Exacto Knife or scissors

Helpful but optional added extra supplies:

  • Glitter & sequins
  • Black and sparkling pipe cleaners
  • Glittery pom poms (if needed for the eyes, a black marker, otherwise use the black pipe cleaner)
  • Standard gift wrapping tape
This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

DIY Unicorn Valentine Box

Before you doing anything, you’ll need to decide which sides will be the top and front of the box.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Once you have that choice made, you’re going to start on the BACK side of the box. Use a standard piece of tape that is about 4 inches long as your guide for cutting out the mail slot using either scissors or an Exacto Knife.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Next, remove the elastic from the party hat and then use hot glue to secure it to the top of the box, in the middle and slightly to the front of the box.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Next, it’s time to glue your ribbons in place. *Tip, I cut off all of the extra old sticky parts and just put the glue on the small stapled area so it would not show.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

I used hot glue to secure a few of the individual ribbon curls in place as well, I did this strategically so they would cover some of the seams in the box.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Now it’s time to glue on the embellishments. Start with the larger pompoms and then add the glitter and sequin areas

*A Good Tip: work in one spot at a time so the glue won’t harden before you can add everything on.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Take and wrap the glitter pipe cleaners around an extra glue stick to get the spirals and then glue them in place.

Valentine Card Box

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Grab the black pipe cleaner pieces and cut them to about 2 inches long and then shape them with our fingers so you have the shape you want

*Another Tip: You can look up different images online of different unicorn eyelashes for inspiration.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Once you have them like you like them, hot glue these onto the front of the box.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Give the box a few minutes for all of the glue to totally dry and then give it a good tap off to make sure all of the loose glitter comes off.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Happy Valentine’s Day and enjoy your Unicorn Valentine Box!

Unicorn Valentine Card Box

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Save This Valentine’s Day Box For Later

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Valentines Boxes for School

If you are looking for fun, easy to make Valentine boxes for school, look no further. This Unicorn Valentine box and this Robot Valentine Box are awesome! You can gather up the recycled materials around your house in under 5 minutes and everyone will think these are the best card boxes they have ever seen.

Your kids can use these at school, homeschool co-op, or if you are throwing a Valentine’s Day party.

Valentine Box Ideas

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Valentine Activities

Once you make this Valentine Box your kids will love these Valentine activities too.

100+ Valentine’s Day Ideas and Activities for Kids

Studies have shown that you will also love the following ideas if you like them. I have pulled them together for you right here!

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

70+ Unicorn Activities, Crafts, Printables and Party Ideas

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

Unicorn Valentine Box Instructions

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.

This Unicorn Valentine Box is the cutest! It's an easy way to make your own DIY Unicorn Valentine box for school parties and other fun. You'll be ready for Valentine's Day with these AMAZING Valentine Box ideas, Made with leftover craft supplies and recycled materials it's ready in 5 minutes.
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Unicorn Valentine Box

This Unicorn Valentine Box is so simple and adorable!

Ingredients
  • Smallish, squarish box (the one used here is about 6 inches square and if your box is not already the color you want you can wrap it in paper or paint it)
  • Triangle party hat – they work perfectly as the unicorn's horn with no printer or tricky cutting needed!
  • Ribbons or gift bow
  • Hot glue gun
  • Exacto Knife or scissors
Helpful but optional extra supplies:
  • Glitter & sequins
  • Black and sparkling pipe cleaners
  • Glittery pom poms (if needed for the eyes, a black marker, otherwise use the black pipe cleaner)
  • Standard gift wrapping tape
Instructions

  1. Before you doing anything, you'll need to decide which sides will be the top and front of the box.

  2. Once you have that choice made, you're going to start on the BACK side of the box. Use a standard piece of tape that is about 4 inches long as your guide for cutting out the mail slot using either scissors or an Exacto Knife.

  3. Next, remove the elastic from the party hat and then use hot glue to secure it to the top of the box, in the middle and slightly to the front of the box.

  4. Next, it's time to glue your ribbons in place. *Tip, I cut off all of the extra old sticky parts and just put the glue on the small stapled area so it would not show.

  5. I used hot glue to secure a few of the individual ribbon curls in place as well, I did this strategically so they would cover some of the seams in the box.

  6. Now it's time to glue on the embellishments. Start with the larger pompoms and then add the glitter and sequin areas *Tip: work in one spot at a time so the glue won't harden before you can add everything on.

  7. Take and wrap the glitter pipe cleaners around an extra glue stick to get the spirals and then glue them in place.

  8. Grab the black pipe cleaner pieces and cut them to about 2 inches long and then shape them with our fingers so you have the shape you want Tip: I used images online of different unicorn eyelashes for inspiration.

  9. Once you have them like you like them, hot glue these onto the front of the box.

  10. Give the box a few minutes for all of the glue to totally dry and then give it a good tap off to make sure all of the loose glitter comes off.