Min. 100 units · 3–5 days
Birthday Gable Boxes
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Birthday Party Food Boxes built to your specification — your dimensions, your board, your print.
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Name, email, phone and what you are packing and the finish you have in mind. Attach artwork if you have it. We reply with a specification and a written price, usually within one business day.
Birthday Party Food Boxes hold a small meal or snack selection for a children's party. That is the starting point for the specification, because dividers matter here more than at adult catering, because party food mixes wet and dry items in small quantities.
In service they are used for children's parties and venue catering where boxes are prepared in advance and handed out.
Birthday Party Food Boxes are specified for children's parties and venue catering where boxes are prepared in advance and handed out. Dividers matter here more than at adult catering, because party food mixes wet and dry items in small quantities.
14pt board with a simple divider, and a grease-resistant base if anything fried is included.
The options we would consider for this format are below; dividers matter here more than at adult catering, because party food mixes wet and dry items in small quantities.
Themed artwork sells this category. Parents buy on theme rather than on specification.
Offset lithography, Digital press, Flexography are all available for this format. Run length usually decides which is cheapest: digital removes the plate cost on short quantities, offset and flexo overtake it at volume.
Themed artwork sells this category. Parents buy on theme rather than on specification.
Every finish listed here is its own pass through the line, so each one is priced on its own rather than folded into a single figure.
Compartmented or plain, sized to a child's portion rather than an adult one.
Send the contents rather than a box size. A plain box is specified for cost, and party food is exactly the mix that needs separating.
The food mixes because there are no dividers, and the box arrives at the table as one combined mess.
Paperboard also absorbs moisture from the air until it equalises with its surroundings. If stock sits more than about six weeks in unconditioned space, a moisture-resistant coating is worth its small premium.
Supply artwork on the dieline we send you, with 3 mm bleed past every trim edge and all text held 4 mm inside the fold lines.
Supply a print-ready PDF or vector file with fonts outlined and images at 300 dpi. Our prepress team checks every file before a proof is issued. The check that catches most files is type sitting too close to a crease, which is easier to move at layout than at proof.
Tell us what goes inside, how many you need and when. Those three answers are enough for us to specify and price the job properly.
A dieline template follows, then a proof. For finish-led work we usually recommend a physical prototype at this point, because foil and soft-touch do not read accurately on screen.
A plain structural sample is the cheapest way to find a fit problem — far cheaper than finding it across a full run.
Sample costs are normally credited against the production order.
Reference
| Product | Birthday Party Food Boxes |
|---|---|
| Category | Custom Gift Boxes |
| Construction | Die-cut, creased and seam-glued |
| Board thickness | 12pt – 18pt depending on product weight |
| Ships as | Flat-packed, glued one seam |
| Materials | 12pt SBS paperboard, 14pt SBS paperboard, 16pt SBS paperboard, 18pt kraft board |
| Printing | Offset lithography, Digital press, Flexography |
| Finishes | Gloss lamination, Matte lamination, Soft-touch lamination, Spot UV, Foil stamping |
| Minimum order | Minimum order is 100 units on any format, and unit cost falls sharply as the quantity rises. |
| Lead time | 3 to 5 business days after artwork approval |
| Shipping | Across the US, UK, Canada and Australia |
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Compartmented or plain, sized to a child's portion rather than an adult one.
The food mixes because there are no dividers, and the box arrives at the table as one combined mess.
Specified for children's parties and venue catering where boxes are prepared in advance and handed out.
Dividers matter here more than at adult catering, because party food mixes wet and dry items in small quantities.
This format sits in our custom gift boxes range, alongside 9 other made-to-order formats.
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Specification, minimums and lead times for birthday party food boxes.
We specify food-contact compliant boards and inks where the pack touches food directly. Tell us whether contact is direct or through a liner for birthday party food boxes, because it changes which stocks are available to you.
A grease-resistant coating or a greaseproof liner. Untreated board will always strike through eventually with hot, oily food — that is a property of the material rather than a quality fault, and it is inexpensive to design out.
Rarely without compromise. A box built to present is not built to survive a carrier network alone. A presentation box inside a plain protective outer usually costs less overall than one box trying to do both.
Yes, and it is the one piece of advice we give unprompted on seasonal work. Birthday Party Food Boxes are bought for a single season with no second run behind them, and producing overage inside the original run costs a fraction of a separate short run later.
Work backwards from the date you need stock in hand: 3 to 5 business days production after artwork approval, plus freight, plus proofing time. We would rather you gave us the date than asked for a lead time.
Flat and glued along one seam, so they pop open on your packing line. That keeps freight cost down considerably compared with a pre-assembled structure.
3 to 5 business days after artwork approval, plus freight. Folding carton runs with applied finishes can take longer because each finish is a separate pass, and we confirm a firm date in writing with the quote.
Prices start from $0.30 per piece for large-volume orders. For this format the biggest levers are quantity, print route, board grade and how many finishing passes are involved. We quote each element separately so you can see where the money is going. Rigid construction is hand-assembled, so labour is a larger share of the unit cost here than it is on a machine-glued carton and quantity discounts flatten out sooner.
Yes. We can send a plain unprinted sample so you can check the fit and structure, or a printed prototype for colour and finish. Sample costs are normally credited against the production order. Ask for the printed prototype rather than the plain sample if the question is finish — soft-touch, foil and deboss all read differently in the hand than on a screen.
Send the current specification or a physical sample and we will quote to match it rather than proposing an alternative you would then have to re-approve internally. Tell us the coating on the pack you are matching too. Grease and moisture resistance are not visible in a sample and they change which stocks we can quote.
All 50 US states, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, on the same timeline everywhere: 3 to 5 business days of production after artwork approval, then 5 to 7 business days in transit. Every run is made to order and shipped directly to your address rather than pulled from stock, so you receive current production rather than whatever has been sitting in a warehouse. Freight is costed separately by weight, volume and destination. If stock is going into a kitchen or a service counter rather than a warehouse, tell us — case sizes that a single person can lift and store matter more there than pallet efficiency.
Every run is cut to your dimensions — there are no stock sizes here. Send the product measurements rather than a box size and we will build the folding carton around them, then send a dieline template you can design onto.
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Send the fill size and the volumes you run. We reply with a full specification and a written price, usually within one business day.