overview
Pencil Box
Updated: August 25, 2025
With the following step by step tutorial you are going to learn on how to make gorgeous Pencil Box by using your Cricut skills and adding some new skills, in this opportunity the theme is “Back To School” or “Teacher appreciation day”, you can fill it with chocolates, sweets or any other small present for your kid’s teacher.
Difficulty: intermediate
Design: ~75 minutes
Assembly: ~25 minutes
Cutting: ~10 minutes
Material Cost: ~$10
Final Size: 8” x 4.5”
Skills
In this tutorial, you are going to learn/practice the following skills:
- Slice shapes
- Add Shapes
- Resize Elements
- Add Text and Change Fonts
- Delete Elements
- Change colors
- Rotate Shapes
- Duplicate elements
- Align elements
- Change operations from Cut to Pen
- Use scoring lines
materials
- Cricut Machine - For this project, we are using Cricut Maker.
- LightGrip cutting mat ($16.99)
- Scoring tool ($10.69)
- Cricut Pens ($12.87)
- Glue ($14.99)
- (Optional) Ink ($8.98)
- 1 Sheet Wood Cardstock Pattern 8.5” x 11” ($7.19)
- Cardstock 65 Lb 8.5” X 11”($11.99)
- 1 Sheet Black
- 1 Sheet Yellow
- 1 Sheet Dark Red
- 1 Sheet White
- 1 Sheet Gray
- 1 Sheet Pink
files
No custom files for this project