Recycled Wrapping
April 10, 2010 7:23 am Guest Blogger Birthdays, Christmas, Crafts, Green Crafting, Holidays
By Guest Blogger Jamie Smith from the blog “C.R.A.F.T. (Crafting Really Awesome Free Things)”
My love to wrap presents in recycled containers started for a few reasons:
1. I was in college and poor (this method is FREE)
2. It made me sad to throw away perfectly good, colorful, pretty boxes
3. I lived in tiny apartments and had no where to store things like wrapping paper
I have used all kinds of boxes including: cereal boxes (kids cereals are colorful, fun, and big enough to wrap a shirt), oatmeal containers, fruit snacks, cake boxes, jello boxes (great for jewelry), and downy sheets boxes.
Another fun option is a plain ‘ol brown grocery sack. Just cut it open to create a flat sheet and wrap up that used Uncle Ben’s rice container! Snazz up the package with some paper cupcake holders and a little ribbon! Just punch 2 holes in the cup cake holders to attach to the box!
Open up the pantry and I promise you will find all kinds of perfectly good containers just waiting to be gifted!
Cath :
Date: April 10, 2010 @ 6:21 PM
Certainly can’t remember the first, but I remember a very long, labor intensive one from my teen years. An afghan made of yarn daises all crocheted together with green yarn. I spent months on it, and thought it was beautiful. Sitting in a box now, not sure what to do with it…