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How many times have you been to a birthday party, especially for children, and found identical offerings from the gift wrap stand. Let's get crafty and make our own, individual creations, which stand out from the crowd. Whether you purchase from the gift wrap stand or create an original of your own there are lots of inspiring ways to package your presents.
Make the parcel part of the gift - place unusual or luxury food items in funky kitchenware. Coffee or tea can be given in a china mug wrapped round with a favourite magazine and tied with a sumptuous wire ribbon bow. Put a gift card for a beauty treatment in a cosmetic bag with a relevant product; nail polish with a manicure or relaxing face mask with a facial. Beach time essentials in a beach tote. Candles and bath salts wrapped in pretty pyjamas.
The festive season is an excellent excuse (as if we need one) for a crafting extravaganza. You can purchase stamps, die-cuts, peel-offs, papers, motifs and much, much more to produce your own personalised paper and labels. Bake small goodies with the children and then help them make their own Christmas containers out of kitchen roll inners covered with a rectangle of coloured paper or gift wrap and decorated with simple motifs to create a seasonal look.
Get the kids crafting - making smaller versions of the white paper snowflake to put on parcels, small glitter stars or favour bags with a few homemade treats. Use small toys or party favours as toppers for kid's presents and then spell out their names with craft letters instead of tags. Substitute a comic page instead of something from the gift wrap stand. Get computer whizz kids to design their own sheet of sticky labels.
The ancient art of Origami is a fabulous idea for transforming that sheet of paper into beautiful handmade envelopes, labels and containers. If you are giving cash as a present you could use the notes to create little origami hearts and flowers and slip them into a greeting card. Who knows, you might even get hooked on a great new hobby!
So, let's grab a sheet from the gift wrap stand and start designing stunning and unusual ways to wrap our presents.
