• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
Howcast

Howcast

The best source for fun, free, and useful how-to videos and guides.

  • Arts & Crafts
  • Entertainment
  • Food & Drink
  • Health
  • Home & Garden
  • Relationships
  • Explore Guides
  • Contact
  • About
  • FAQs
  • Explore Guides
  • Arts & Crafts
  • Entertainment
  • Food & Drink
  • Health & Wellness
  • Love & Relationships
  • Home & Garden
Arts & CraftsPaper Crafts

How to Make an Accordion File From Envelopes

Instructions

  • Step 1: Select envelopes Select an odd number of matching envelopes, from five to nine, in the size you want to use. The envelopes must have flap openings.
  • Step 2: Glue together Apply glue along the inside of the flap of the first envelope and adhere it to the front side of the next envelope. Repeat until all envelopes are attached with the flap of the last envelope left loose as the top cover. Allow glue to dry.
  • TIP: Use rubber stamps to custom decorate each envelope according to its contents.
  • Step 3: Add ribbon closure Cut a slit on both sides of the last envelope and feed the ribbon through.
  • Step 4: Label Label the contents of each envelope with colored pens. Use decorative labels to mark them accordingly.
  • Step 5: Fill and fold Fill the envelopes with your stuff, fold the envelopes into an accordion, and fasten neatly with the ribbon.
  • FACT: The first U.S. stamps were issued in 1847. The five-cent stamp featured Benjamin Franklin and the ten-cent stamp pictured George Washington.

You Will Need

  • Five to nine envelopes with flap openings
  • A glue stick
  • A ribbon
  • Colored pens
  • Decorative labels
  • Rubber stamps

Lessons in this Guide

How to Make a “Doggie Bag” Tote

How to Make a Handmade Paper Gift Box

How to Make a Handmade Paper Picture Frame

How to Make a Handmade Paper Envelope

How to Make a Handmade Paper Greeting Card

How to Fold Paper for a Paper Football

How to Get Wrinkles out of Paper

How to Make an Earth Day Coloring Book for Kids

How to Make a Milk Carton Bird Feeder

How to Make Papier-Mache

How to Make a Cardboard Desk

How to Make Bumper Stickers

How to Sharpen Scissors

How to Make a Hot Air Balloon Centerpiece

How to Make Business Cards

How to Make a Helicopter

How to Make a Silhouette Art Piece

How to Make a Paper Gun

How to Antique Your Own Paper

How to Make a Paper Hat

How to Make a Paper Boat

How to Turn Old Magazines into a Coiled Paper Basket

How to Make Your Own Book or Journal

How to Reuse Old Business Cards

How to Make a Magazine Holder Out of a Cereal Box

How to Age Paper

How to Make Paper from Plant Fibers

How to Bind a Book

How to Make Paper from Recycled Paper

How to Make a CD or DVD Case Out of a Piece Of Paper

How to Preserve a Newspaper Clipping

How to Make an Accordion File From Envelopes

How to Make Paper

How to Make a Pop-Up Card

How to Make a Papier-Mache Mask

How To Make a Paper Wallet

Copyright © 2026 · Howcast · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Ventures with Springwire.ai

Privacy Manager