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Gifting: Joy to the Receiver and the Giver
The year is abounding with celebrations, and it need not be limited only to a few months. There are birthdays, anniversaries and many other reasons why you can gift your friends and relatives. When we present the gift to the recipient, we also feel the warmth and are happy to see the recipient's joyous faces. If you are a bit creative with the packaging, it can only add to the recipient's experience. You may be worried whether it would need too many resources. This article will discuss some of the gift wrapping ideas that would be easy to make.
The Effect That Unique Packaging Has on the Recipient
Enthrals the Recipient
When you are giving a gift, the recipient feels loved. You can enhance the feelings by making the packaging unique as well. Instead of any random packaging, you can make a personalised packaging based on the recipient's tastes. Different packaging ideas can provide a "wow" factor and have an element of surprise. Moreover, your gift will also stand out.
The Best Impression
Whatever gift you send, the packaging can have an instant impression in the minds of the recipient. Apart from only wrapping it in craft paper, you can also have a theme in the packaging. It can depend on the occasion. A unique packaging theme can also have a lasting effect about you on the recipient. It can show your love and respect towards the recipient.
You Are Caring
We gift to our friends and relatives because we share a close relationship with them. Most of us also create personalised gifts that are hand-crafted as well. But we do not pay too much attention to the packaging of the present. If we put extra labour in packaging, it will show the additional love and respect we have for the recipient.
Influenced by Visual Cues
Earlier, no one paid heed to the packaging and used only plain wrapping paper for the packaging. Of late, we see unique packaging options in front of us. It is because most of us felt that no one would pay heed to the packaging. But people are influenced by the visual cues that make the packaging so important. The recipient will take cues from the gift wrapping ideas and can have an idea of the gift inside.
Different Types of Gift Wrapping Ideas
Hand-Lettered Gift Wrapping
It is always great to write a message on your own. While a card would be fine, but it enhances the gift if the message is written by hand. And how about writing the message on the package. Apart from directly writing it on the box, you may also write it on a tape and wrap it around the box. You may also attach a tag big enough to have the message written on it. You can write the messages on the gift boxes on all occasions. But you must ensure that the handwriting is legible.
Materials Needed:
- A gift box
- A gel pen – choose your colour
- A twill tape
- Roll of craft paper
- A pencil and an eraser
- A few tags
How to Make:
- Have the box in place and cover it. Always keep in mind the size and weight of the gift item when choosing the box.
- Use the pencil to write the message on the box.
- Once you have finalised the message, use the gel pen to thicken the message.
Using Cookie Tags
Ever thought about having edible tags? Yes, you can use cookie tags on the gifts. It will be ideal to be used on return gifts. Once the cookie is made, you may attach it to the string and write a message with some cream.
Ingredients for The Cookie:
- 1 cup maida
- 1/2 spoon baking soda
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 spoon baking powder
- 1/4 cup softened butter
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 spoon jaiphal powder
- 1 spoon cinnamon powder
- 1 spoon sooth powder
- 1/4 spoon cloves powder
How to Make:
- Mix the brown sugar, butter and honey in a bowl and whisk for some time.
- Next, you have to add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
- Finally, add the maida and knead well into a dough.
- Refrigerate for half an hour.
- Bring it out and place it on a flat surface and dust with plain flour. Roll it into an eight-inch circle. Cut it with a cookie-cutter.
- Place some of the cookies on a baking tray and bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees for around 10 - 12 minutes.
Using Paper Animals
Is the gift recipient an animal lover? You can also create a friendly animal from paper cut-outs to add another to the packaging. These paper animals are not difficult to make and let us see how to make them.
Materials Needed:
- Thin coloured paper
- Hot glue
- Tape
- Scissors
- Circle punch
Making a bear:
- You have to first wrap the gift box with brown or black paper.
- You must cut a large grey circle to make a snout. Fix it with glue in the centre of the box.
- Now, you have to cut a smaller oval shape for the nose out with black paper. You have to glue it towards the top of the snout circle.
- The mouth must be drawn with a black marker under the nose.
- You must cut black circles for the ears and small pink circles. The small pink circles must be affixed to the bottom of the black circle.
- The bottom of the circles must be folded under the ear to make a flap for the ear. The ears can be attached to the top of the box.
- You can then cut small grey circles for the eyes and attach them to the box.
- You can attach a small bow at the bottom of the chin and fix it with glue.
A Bubblegum Gift Wrap for Kids
If you send a present to a kid on a birthday, this bubblegum gift wrap can make them happy. They will also be eager to open the present. You will need rectangular gift boxes and ensure that you do not have a big present.
Materials needed:
- Wrapping paper – pink and silver
- Marker to draw the bubblegum wrap
- Pink cardstock paper
- Tape and scissors
How to make:
- Wrap the gift box using the silver gift wrapper.
- Cut the pink wrapper around 2 inches narrower than the box and wrap it around the box.
- Write the word "bubblegum" using a marker.
- You may cut out some circles from the pink wrapping paper or cardstock denoting bubbles and paste them.
The Emoji Gift Wrap
Using emoji faces on the gift boxes can also be a great option to keep the kids happy. It will also be an excellent draw for adults. You must have a yellow wrapper to wrap these boxes. Also needed are cardstock paper and your artistic sense.
Materials needed:
- Cardstock - White, Black, Red, Pink, etc.
- Double Stick Tape
- Glue Stick
How to make:
- You must first decide the type of emoji that you wish to make. If you need to have ideas, you can search some of the happier emojis on the internet.
- Then you must make the required cut-outs for the mouth, eyes and other features using the cardstock. The black cardstock paper will be the ideal one.
- Wrap the gifts in yellow paper and paste the cut-outs in the appropriate places.
A 3D Gift Wrap
Another unique gift wrap is the 3D gift wrap. You can use this idea when sending gifts to kids. You may wrap the present with white gift wrapper and attach several crayons. The kids can colour the gift wrapper before opening it. Another alternative is to cut triangular pieces of green paper in the form of a Christmas tree. You may also attach some sticks stickers or other decorations that the kids can attach to the tree.
You can send it to kids by attaching some toy cars or other such blocks. If you send a gift to kids, you can wrap the gift box with the wrapping paper and add a road by pasting a black strip. You can add small white stripes in the middle and along the length of the black strip. Also, affix a toy car, making it look like a road.
Using Paper Flowers for Wrapping
The gift box can also be wrapped with paper flowers. You can make some beautiful and exquisite designs using materials that you can quickly get in your homes. You can make it from ordinary tissue paper.
Materials used:
- Tissue paper
- Stapler
- Punching machine
- Green tape or floral tape
- Scissors
- Lollipops
- Bamboo skewers or drinking straw - Optional
How to make:
- You have to cut different coloured tissue papers into medium-sized squares.
- Place them in a heap with alternating colours.
- Then fold over one edge of the stack as strips of one inch. You have to do an accordion-style folding.
- Next, trim the edges into a curved shape and punch a hole at the figure's centre.
- Insert a lollipop into the hole and staple both sides of the stick.
- The layers of tissue paper must be separated carefully so that it takes the shape of a flower.
- You may stick the end of the lollipop stick into the bamboo skewer to ensure that the stick is long.
- You can cover the gift box with wrapping paper and attach these paper flowers to the edge of the gift box.
The Watercolour Gift Wrap
You may also use an abstract art form to define the gift wrap. It is essential to use contrasting colours to match the texture of the paper that is being used. It could be ideal for packaging gifts to elders or the teacher of your children.
Materials needed:
- Butcher paper, or kraft paper
- Watercolour paint box and a bowl of water
- Paintbrush and palette
How to make:
- You must cut the paper into proper sizes.
- Use the watercolours to make an abstract art of your choice. Ensure that the front part of the packaging forms the theme of the art form. You may take some help from the internet regarding the art form you wish to make.
- Once the painting is over, keep the paper to dry. When the paper has dried, complete the packaging.
A Confetti Wrap
Most kids love to shake the gift boxes to understand what is inside. Sometimes, we elders also love to do it as well. But what if there were some colourful bits of paper wrapped in cellophane that would form various shapes as you shook the box.
Materials needed:
- Plain wrapping paper
- Cellophane
- Coloured paper
- Punching machine
- Sticky tape
- Ruler
- Scissors
How to make:
- Wrap the gift box with packing paper. You may use brown paper also.
- Now, wrap it again with cellophane but leave it open at one end.
- Take the coloured paper and use the punching machine to make some confetti. You may also cut some small strips using your scissors.
- Take them and pour them through the open end of the cellophane.
Use Money Balloons to Gift Cash
Were you unable to quickly choose a gift for your relatives? You have to settle for a cash gift, but vouchers are growing old-fashioned. You may choose to make a money balloon. Sounds interesting, isn’t it! You can put the cash along with some confetti in a helium balloon.
Materials needed:
- Money – currency notes
- Clear Balloons
- Light Confetti
- Funnel
How to make:
- Roll the currency notes and put them inside the balloon.
- Add the confetti too inside the balloon.
- Fill the balloon with air.
- You may tie it to a string or a small thin wooden or plastic stick.
Few More Gifting Tips for You
When you plan to give a gift, always keep in mind the occasion and the person's preferences. You must have observed the person from close quarters, and the gifts must cater to the person's traits. You can also gift for a good cause or ensure that it brings good luck for the recipient.
If the recipient has a unique hobby, the gift can also steer the person in that direction. The gift should be useful and should have an element of surprise. You must avoid gift vouchers as it could lead to a few problems for the recipient.
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Upgrade Your Gift-Wrapping Skills with These Surprisingly Easy Yet Impressive Ideas!
Wrapping your gifts won’t be bored ever again. Let your ingenuity and imagination take over by making your gifts more wonderful. That way, the recipient would value the effort you put in the gift wrapping alone! Not to mention how much time, love, money and effort you had put in the gift itself. The holidays are fast approaching and it's time to wrap those presents and make your gifts stick out with these unique wrapping ideas.