At Christmas it is difficult to escape the rolls of wrapping paper. Your presents seem to need to be dressed up in glitter, frozen dusting, shiny paper or interesting patterns. However when you don’t have wrapping paper to hand or if your have strong ecological reasons you need to find some alternatives. Sometimes your inventive ideas don’t always work out. The proof can be seen in the list of 20 original present wrapping ideas below!
When you offer someone a present you often feel obliged to wrap up your gift nicely. However after the festive period the amount of wrapping paper wasted is staggering! It is not the most environmentally friendly way to give someone a gift. You can choose stronger, longer-lasting paper that can be reused. However when you have nothing on hand you have to be creative. Here are 20 alternatively wrapped presents which have either been a great success or a complete fail!
1/ Using what you’ve got
When you don’t have any sellotape you have to use what you have got to hand! Let’s hope no one get’s a paper cut while opening presents!
2/ A present without the surprise
Do you love the sense of suspense when you open up a present not knowing what is inside? This Christmas we’ve saved you the effort!
3/ Plain and simple
I think we got the idea…
4/ A paper bike
It is a difficult task to wrap a bike entirely in paper. However this person’s gift wrapping skills are on point. That being said, a thousand rolls of wrapping must have been used… The poor trees!
5/A polystyrene jewelry box
This is recycled gift wrapping! The most important thing is what is inside.
6/ Optical Illusion
The parcel is coloured exactly like the wrapping paper, who would know there wasn’t enough to cover the box?
7/ Wrapping paper well copied
This artist has managed to pull off the wrapping papers design ! Well done!
