DIY Pinwheel Wedding Favor Boxes

2 min read September 13, 2026 Dawn Wade
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Give your spring or summer wedding a whimsical touch with these delightful DIY pinwheel favor boxes. These fun, handmade favors are sure to blow your wedding guests away while adding a smile to their faces. Not into coral and mint?? We have these mini favor boxes in a TON of colors!! Mix and match to coordinate with your wedding colors.

Project Time
10 to 20 min
Difficulty
Beginner
Step
1

Use a paper trimmer to cut 3.5″ squares from the cardstock colors of your choice.

DIY Pinwheel Wedding Favor Boxes step 1
Step
2

Use a pencil and a ruler to lightly draw a line from one corner to the other to form an ‘X’. Don’t worry, you won’t see the drawn pencil lines once the favors are all done.

DIY Pinwheel Wedding Favor Boxes step 2
Step
3

Using the drawn lines as a guide, cut a slit into the cardstock on each of the corners of the paper, making sure not to cut the middle section.

DIY Pinwheel Wedding Favor Boxes step 3
Step
4

Use glue dots or a dot of hot glue to adhere one corner of each clipped section onto the middle of the drawn ‘X’.

DIY Pinwheel Wedding Favor Boxes step 4 part 1
DIY Pinwheel Wedding Favor Boxes step 4 part 2
Step
5

Use a glue dot or hot glue to adhere a button to the middle of the finished paper pinwheel. Glue the pinwheel to the top of a mini favor box.

DIY Pinwheel Wedding Favor Boxes step 5
Step
6

Don’t forget to fill your wedding favors with something that your guests are sure to love! These favors would be great filled with an assortment of candy.

DIY Pinwheel Wedding Favor Boxes step 6

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