Reusable Gift Wrap Ideas
It’s always difficult to find the right wrapping paper, box or gift bag to perfectly seal your Christmas gifts. However, that’s not the only thing that’s a challenge when it comes to festive gifts. Making environmental friendly gift wrapping choices is a little difficult but not impossible. All you need is to put on your thinking cap.
Turn your holiday gift wrapping into a recycling session.For the gifts that needs to be wrapped, you could always reuse materials that you already have at home. Without a doubt, a creative and imaginative method of reusing your wrapping materials is a fun surprise that people might even follow your ideas.
Here are some reusable gift packaging ideas.
Reusable Shopping Bags
A handy method to wrap gifts is by using your existing brown grocery shopping bags. There are numerous stores where you can get reusable bags, which are considerably less expensive than gift bags. You can use these bags for months if kept in good condition with the added bonus of reducing waste at stores as well. You can decorate the brown paper packages with ribbons, string or cards.
Basket
If you have too many gifts to give to one person, then you could use baskets instead of wrapping each gift and not being able to recycle the wrapping paper.
Baskets can be used for organising the gifts well and you can also add in your own decoration such as tying a ribbon on the basket handle. There are many beautiful options available and it’s a two-in-one gift as the recipient gets a gift and can repurpose the basket as well as the gift.
Recycled gift wrap materials
Art work
Your children’s artwork is an amazing and creative method to wrap gifts. For smaller gifts, you can use a small piece of paper that your child has decorated with colours. Alternatively, you could get your children to draw on a large piece of paper as well and use it to wrap large gifts.
Old Maps
Old maps are the best wrapping paper that you can use to wrap your gifts. If you ever come across any old maps around your house, then you should consider using it to wrap your gifts. Maps makes beautiful wrapping paper and it is attractive to look at before opening as it gives a rustic look.
Boxes
Why waste money buying decorative boxes, when you can upcycle ordinary brown boxes and decorate it yourself? Recycle the extra boxes you have into a gift box by using ribbons, string or other decorative items to decorate it. With a little bit of creativity, you can probably come up with all sorts of additional eco-friendly gift-wrapping ideas!
Sidebox: Make your own christmas ornaments
The best way to start the holiday celebration with your family and friends is by creating your own Christmas tree ornaments.
Use Bottle Caps
If you’re a person who loves to collect bottle caps, then here’s what you can do:
- Cut round shapes according to the bottle cap circumference.
- Paste paper in the inner part of the bottle cap.
- Draw a snowman figure on the paper.
- Use buttons to decorate the body part of the snowman.
- Finally, stick the bottle caps on a ribbon, to make a jolly snowman!
Use Old Fabrics To Make A Snowman
If you have excess fabric at home, don’t throw them away. You can use it to make your own snowman or other Christmas tree ornaments. Here’s how:
- Cut two pieces of fabric into a snowman shape.
- Use bright thread to sew the fabric in place.
- Once done with sewing, you can use black beads for the eyes and buttons on the body part of the snowman.
- Sew a piece of string on the back of the snowman, so that you can hang it around your Christmas tree.
