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Here are some easy and cheap ways to gift-wrap those presents this Christmas. I know you have already spent so much time, effort and money into buying those Christmas presents and now you need to spend some more to wrap them all up.
You don’t need to buy a lot of the shiny and glittery wrappers and ribbons to cover your presents. We have prepared for you easy ways on how you can wrap them up with just simple wrapping paper and few artistic ideas to show the Christmas spirit.
Show off your own designs to make the presents more exciting and interesting to open up.
Brown Paper Wrapper Ideas
If you have brown paper wrapper just lying around, then here are some ways to liven it up and make it in tune with the coming season.
- Christmas Tree Ribbon
Wrap your present with brown paper and with a green paper ribbon design it like a Christmas tree and glue it. Add a few sequins to show it as ornaments on the tree and tie the whole present with a red thin yarn and put cute little bells and a tag. Yes these are super cute and creative but for a toddler make sure inside there is some sort of learning toys to assist with their development.
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- Christmas Lights
Easiest way to design a present gift-wrapped in brown paper is with colorful pens. Draw some colorful Christmas lights around the present and personalize it like how it shows on the image.
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- Christmas Wreath
Create a simple wreath made with a few green leaves tied up into a circle and attached to the present with some colorful yarn.
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- Reindeer Presents
Make a uniform design of all your presents with this cute reindeer inspired idea. Prepare cutouts of the eyes, nose, tongue, ears and horn. Glue them all together to make the reindeer and just draw the mouth with a black pen.
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- Jingle Bells
With some colorful yarns, create some bells with them and tie them up with your presents as how you see the image. Or you can put real bells instead to make it more realistic.
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One-Colored Gift Wraps
Instead of brown paper, maybe you have some colored paper. You can make a lot of designs with one-colored gifts wraps.
1. Santa Claus Belt
If you have wrapped your presents with red colored paper then why not make it into a Santa Claus belt.
Cut out a belt buckle from a cardboard box and just add gold glitters all over. Wrap a black ribbon around the present and within the belt the buckle to show it as the leather strap of the belt.
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- Glittery Fern Leaf or Real Green Leaves
For dark colored gift wraps, you can add a glittery gold leaf just to add a little bit of design to the present.
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- Weave Design
If you have some ribbons with the same shade of color of the gift-wrap then you can design them over the present and weave them in between each ribbon.
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- Necklace Design
With a needle and thread, stitch some small cutouts of colored paper together to make a necklace. Tie this necklace over the presents to liven up the color.
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- Christmas Tree
With green colored paper cut out half a circle shape, fold the paper that will make it into a tree. Glue it on the present and just add a little more decoration to the Christmas tree.
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Food Items
It’s a little difficult to wrap food items whenever you give them as presents. Here are a few ideas we have collected for you.
- Bread Loaf
For bread or fruit loaf, better wrap it with cling wrap and just add some colorful ribbons around it to make it more into the Christmas season.
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- Cookies
If you prefer giving out food items like cookies for presents then just place them into clear bags and accentuate it with some gold wires or some colorful lace to tie them up.
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- Pretzels
Pretzels placed in a clear jar and just place a greeting sticker on top of the lid. For an additional décor, add a polka dot ribbon or any colorful ribbon placed around the neck of the jar.
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- Crinkles
Who doesn’t love chocolate crinkles? Then if you like giving them out as presents, you can use an empty pringles container and just cover it with a simple Christmas gift-wrapping paper. Add small pieces of ribbon around its neck and you have a nicely done gift container.
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Paper bags
If you opted for your present be it a food item or anything else be placed in a paper bag container, then you can personalize it with some of these ideas we have.
- Brown Paper Bag
Design it into a reindeer, make cutouts of the eyes and glittery nose and the cute horns and just glue them on the bag to make it more Christmassy.
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You can make it into a snowman. Cut out a hat, some circles for its eyes and mouth and nose as well. Glue them to the bag to create the snowman. You can add a few more decor to it by adding color to its hat.
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- Colorful bags
For some cute and colored bags, you can personalize them as to how you want it. Cut out a Christmas tree or maybe just add a ribbon and few strips of colored paper place around the bag.
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There are also other ideas for gift-wrap that we can use. Here are a few more to add to your choices.
- Ribbons and Bells
This is a little fancier because we will use some Christmas designed gift wrapping paper, wide laced ribbons and some bells. Just play around with the colors that you have and wrap the ribbons around the present and place the bells on them.
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- Cute Animals
For the children, wrap their presents and make them into different kinds of animals. See on this image how they have made a penguin, dog, cat and a reindeer with the use of a lot of cutouts and ribbons.
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- Colorful Presents
With the use of another colored wrapping paper placed around the center part of the present and accentuated with a ribbon, it makes it more imaginative.
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