How to Do Creative Gift Wrapping

Give your holiday presents an extra special touch with these easy Christmas gift wrapping ideas. Whether you’re gifting festive fares, a handcrafted trinket, or something really unique, these various DIYs have got you — and your gift — covered.

1. DIY Christmas Wreath Label

Make small trinkets, gift cards, and other tiny gifts look grand with this festive wreath label you can throw on any small paper bag.

2. Rudolph Gift Wrap

Create your very own fleet of reindeer with this easy craft that you can display under your tree or anywhere in your home.

3. Natural Elements

Forage your backyard for tree clippings, pinecones, and other pieces of fresh greenery to top your gifts. Fast and free — it doesn’t get better than that!

4. Easy DIY Holiday Paper Bags

Sometimes paper just won’t cut it. These simple bags, adorned with merry messages, work for gifts of all shapes and sizes.

5. DIY Paper Straw Star Gift Toppers

Buy in bulk and you can create this ex-straw-dinary gift wrap idea on the cheap.

6. Candy Cane Topper

Make your gifts even sweeter by adorning them with everyone’s favorite Christmas candy.

7. Rustic Elegance

Sprigs of rosemary and pepperberry perk up these presents wrapped in kraft paper.

8. Gift Toppers

These colorful creations add wow factor to humble brown paper packages.

Honeycomb Ornaments: Cut 1 ½” and 2 ½” half circles from honeycomb paper. Hot-glue one side of folded half circle to package; unfold and glue another side of the sphere to box. Use a silver paint pen to draw ornament hangers.

Originally published at blog.nationalbookstore.com on December 17, 2018.