Mini Chocolate Mailbox Valentines

In today’s post: Use our template to make adorable mini chocolate mailboxes filled with Hershey’s Nuggets. This is a fun Valentine’s Day craft you can do with your kids.

DIY Valentine’s Treat

These chocolate mailboxes are a fun little treat your kids can make for their friends for Valentine’s Day. Or you could make them for your kids, and even write a short note on the inside of the mailbox. They’re easy to put together and turn out cute. You can use any color cardstock to make the mailboxes, and you can add a strip of patterned paper if you’d like. I’ve created a printable template to make creating the mailboxes easy.

Get the Template

Choose this text to download the free printable template for the mini chocolate mailboxes. Make sure to print it out at 100% or full size on 8.5×11 paper. The test box on the template should print at 1 inch x 1 inch.

Supplies

Here’s what you need to make Mini Chocolate Mailboxes:

• Template: you’ll find the printable template in the light blue box right above the word “supplies”
• Cardstock: one sheet of 8.5×11 cardstock will make 4 boxes
• Scrap of White Cardstock: you’ll use a 1 inch x 1.5 inch square of white cardstock to make the flag
• Heart Stickers: to decorate the flag
• Small Brads: to attach the flag
• Corner Rounder Punch: if you don’t have one, you can just use scissors
• Adhesive Tape Runner: found in the craft section of Walmart or at any craft store
• Hershey’s Nuggets: you’ll use two nuggets for each mailbox
• Patterned Paper (optional): to decorate the mailbox

How to Make a Mini Chocolate Mailbox

Making each mailbox will take about ten minutes, with most of that time being cutting out the template. Here’s what you’ll do:

Cut out the Mailbox Template

Begin by printing the template onto an 8.5×11 sheet of cardstock (be sure to print it at 100% or full size; the grey test box should measure one inch). Cut along the lines to get four “T” shaped templates. You’ll use one per mailbox. Also cut a 1 x 1.5 inch piece of white cardstock that will be used for a flag. Optional: Cut a 1 x 4.75 inch piece of patterned paper and adhere it along the vertical line of the “T”, as shown below.

Next, you need to round the corners of the horizontal part of the “T”. If you have a corner rounding punch, use it to round the top two corners. Then fold over the vertical part of the “T” and crease it, then use the punch to round the bottom two corners. (If you don’t have a corner punch, use scissors to round the corners. You will still need to make the fold.)

Attach the Flag

Grab the small piece of white cardstock and cut it into a flag shape. Add a heart sticker to tiny note, if desired. Use an exacto knife, toothpick, or other sharp item to poke a small hole at the bottom of the flag.

Assemble The Mailbox

Now you’ll lay the mailbox template with the flag (and patterned paper if using) down on the table. Add some tape runner adhesive in the area shown by the grey box below, and then place a Hershey’s nugget on the adhesive. Add a little bit of adhesive on top of the nugget to adhere a second nugget on top of the first.

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Add more adhesive on the flap with rounded corners to the right of the nuggets. Fold it up and press it to adhere to the nuggets.

At this point you can take the long piece and wrap it all the way around the nuggets and across the bottom. Add adhesive to secure it along the bottom.

Here’s what it looks like finished: