1. Monogrammed Gift
Use pipe cleaners to add a personal monogram to your gifts. Secure with a twist tie!
2. Paper Sequins
Use a round paper punch to cut different sized circles from craft paper, using two or three different colours. Punch a hole through the circles with a nail and string them onto a thread, using a needle. Wrap around your box and secure with tape.
3. Chalkboard Tag
Wrap your gift using Kraft paper. Draw a shape for your gift tag and paint with chalk board paint. Write the names with chalk once it's dry.
4. Pretty Pictures
Start out by wrapping your gift with coloured construction paper. Use the eraser end of a pencil, dipped in slightly thinned white craft paint, or on a white ink pad and then stamp onto the gift. Make snowflakes or a snowman, using a black marker to add eyes, mouth and arms and add a carrot nose.
5. Strings of Light
Start by wrapping your gift in craft or butcher paper. Using a stamp (you can make your own using a potato, or a cork from a bottle) and different coloured paints (brush the paint onto the stamp to avoid too much paint), stamp light bulbs along a string drawn with a marker.