Learn how to create Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans boxes that will have your guests thinking you traveled to Hogsmeade to get them.

Bertie Bott’s Beans Boxes Tutorial

Crafters, start your Harry Potter movie marathon and grab a glass of wine, this is gonna take a while.

I found these printables from A Tale of Two Stories on Etsy. For only $5, you’ll get the design for not only the Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans Boxes but also for Chocolate Frogs, Fizzing Whizbees, Exploding Bon Bons, and Cockroach Clusters! I just checked the site to make sure this is still available and it is! They’ve also added another printable package for $8 that includes all of these candy boxes plus invitations, candy labels and a Honeydukes sign! Even though I already have the candy box PDF’s I’m very temped to purchase their new package.

Supplies

• Card stock paper
• Scissors
• X-acto knife
• Cutting mat
• Double sided tape
• Tacky glue
• Ruler

I used scissors to cut most of the access paper away but then brought out an x-acto knife to cut into the tight corners. Use a ruler to slice against to get those crisp lines.

Side note, make sure you keep track of your x-acto blades. If you happen to drop one in your carpet without noticing you could end up in the ER getting a stitch in your foot at 11 p.m. I know this from experience because a friend told me.

I’ve seen some tutorials of this box where the crafter will cut the windows out and then stick a plastic bag of jelly beans inside. This is a great solution and will save you a ton of time! Since I’m an over achiever though, I added clear plastic to the windows so that I could fill the whole box with jelly beans, giving it a more authentic look. To do this, take a clear plastic bag and cut pieces a little larger than each window, this is so that you will have enough excess plastic to secure it down. Put a layer of double sided tape along each edge of the window and secure the plastic in place. Fold the box and use tacky glue along the side and bottom to hold it together. To give the bottom of the box extra support so the beans don’t fall out, I cut a square of poster board and glued it to the bottom.

Once the glue is dry, fill the boxes with jelly beans and enjoy! For more Harry Potter crafts, check out my full post here Harry Potter Birthday Party.