Use these upcycled holiday card boxes to package tiny gifts, decorate your tree or build homemade advent calendars. My grandma taught me how to make these small origami boxes when I was a little girl.

Basic crochet skills are required for this intermediate class. Ornaments will include a Christmas moose, fairy with birchbark wings, Santa gift card holder, and hot air balloon over a glass ornament.

I remember my mother used to decorate our tree with the most painstaking DIY ornaments, like the tiny paper origami stars we made one year and the stings of popcorn (yes, you read that right! popcorn!