What do you wrap your gifts in?

[Bren In Pots]

For little ones I always use Santa wrapping paper then for grown ups its usually brown paper decorated.

[alex-adam]

Give em all a ten bob note. Simple!
Roger

Steady on Roger, - just a couple of half-crowns should be enough!!

[veggiechicken]

A couple .....????

[Piggle]

er this is going to make me sound like a right bah-humbug but no-one in my family buys each other presents for any occasion .... haven't been for years .

[Jeanied]

Chris get some child friendly paint and get her to put hand print decorations on the brown paper - or cut out a potato into a star shape and do potato prints. A shake of glitter while the paint is still wet and voilá!

[di]

You can turn a handprint into a Rudolph.

[cardiffsteve]

I wrap all my gifts in love!

[veggiechicken]

I wrap all my gifts in love!

Cheapskate!!

[zazen999]

A cheapy embellishment rather than investing in the stick on rosettes is tinsel. I use approx 1" tinsel of matching/contrasting colour to the paper and stick it on the corner of the gift tag (cut out from old cards) that is stuck to the parcel. Wrap a little cellotape around your finger to make double sided tape.

Once attached, it doesn't look like a strip of tinsel, more like a little sparkly bobble. Hard to describe but doesn't look naff - well I don't think so.

Do you mean one inch?

[singleseeder]

Do you mean one inch?

Er, yes. I thought that's what I'd written.

[Mikey]

Well we buy a variety of wrapping paper, my sister however layers different coloured tissue paper and ties with twine or ribbon so when you undo the knot it unravels in your lap. Even after 10 years I'm still impressed by it.

One thing we do each year, is cutout shapes and pictures from Christmas cards we've received and use them as gift tags for the next year. This isn't really a cost saving thing, I genuinely believe you get much nicer more individual tags by this method.

Just to gloat, we've almost finished our shopping!!

[chris]

ditto

[northepaul]

Chris get some child friendly paint and get her to put hand print decorations on the brown paper - or cut out a potato into a star shape and do potato prints. A shake of glitter while the paint is still wet and voilá!

You can also put two little hands together and make an angel...!!

[northepaul]

Brown paper, recycled christmas cards as gift tags and twine...pref a jolly colour.
Sometimes sheets from mags or newspaper - a good effect is to tape different ones together like a patchwork.
The only wrapping paper I buy is to wrap Santas presents to my 8 year old...

[salome2001]

bought wrapping paper, usually bought from whichever supermarket I do the shopping in that week. Nothing fancy. Always recycled. Boring.