Christmas, an annual event, is once again upon us. In the next couple of weeks, everyone will be so busy looking for gifts and have these presents wrapped. As you find creative ways to do the wrappings, you should know that there are plenty of environmentally-friendly options for doing this. You can wrap your gifts using items other than paper. Below are some suggestions: 1. Scarves make wonderful wrappers. With their color prints, you can use this for bottles, books, or boxes and cover the items creatively. They can also double as gifts, which means that if you use this, you’re giving two kinds of presents. And most people will find scarves useful because they can use this in many different ways. 2. Old cloth. If you don’t like to use scarves, you can use old cloths — washclothes, towels, shirts, or anything you no longer use. Use this to keep oddly shaped items, such as a vase or figurine. You can even get creative by sewing together different clothes to make the wrap look interesting and colorful. 3. Bottles or tin cans. Most households have plenty of these lying around. If you’ve used up a bottle of mayonnaise, keep the jar for storing items you will eventually give as gifts. As a Christmas gift, this is a good container for edible gifts, such as jams, salads and other baked goodies you’ve prepared for your relatives or friends. 4. Used paper or newspaper. Spruce this up using ribbons or laces and trims to make one uniquely wrapped present. Make this even more special and personalized if you let the children doodle on the wrapper. 5. Old cardboard or reusable bags. With every new online order, come some cardboard that remains lying in the storage. Use these to wrap the gifts of unusual shapes. They come very handy. You may even color the cardboard with watercolors to give it a bit of that creative touch.
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AuthorNancy Ramon is a writer for online outdoor magazines and blogger about environment. She is a vegan, a cat lady and a fighter for animal welfare. Archives
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