Christmas is approaching. Like every year, most people are under shopping stress. Gifts are bought for all family members, friends, relatives, colleagues or business partners. Craft enthusiasts who are skilled craftsmen make the presents themselves so that everything can be wrapped up by December 20th at the latest and placed under the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. When the buying or crafting frenzy is finally over, the question of suitable gift packaging arises. Whip up something quickly so that you have enough time left over to put together the festive menu or style your New Year's Eve outfit! We'll explain to you how to quickly make beautiful Christmas packaging and show you 20 stylish DIY ideas that will help you effectively display your Christmas presents under the Christmas tree.
Make Christmas packaging: Make your own environmentally friendly “house” gift box
First, we present to you a successful idea for Christmas packaging. In the days before Christmas, the “house” gift box serves asbeautiful Christmas decorations, for example on the windowsill, on the dresser or on the Christmas table. Arrange it together with artificial mini Christmas trees, deer, dwarf and Santa Claus figures and create a winter village. You don't need a template for the house, just a folding cardboard that you can cut into the shape you want. You can see how to assemble the house in the step-by-step instructions below.
For this sweet gift packaging you will need the following materials and accessories: a folding cardboard box, a cutter knife, hot glue and a white marker. Optionally, you can also make a stamp out of a potato and use it to stamp Christmas motifs on the house. This is how the house is assembled: Place the folding box in front of you. Cut out two triangular details and fold the cardboard into a box. Place the gift in the box and hot glue the ends of the gable roof to the house. Let the glue dry completely for a few minutes at room temperature and then start painting the house as desired. You can also assign this task to the children. You will definitely enjoy stamping or painting the house.
You can use the house again if you carefully cut off the roof with the cutter knife when unwrapping the presents. This packaging idea is sustainable and environmentally friendly. Not only do you save costs, but you also completely avoid packaging paper. In view of the numerous resources that are wasted in the production of packaging paper, especially water and electricity, more and more people are turning to sustainable alternatives. They have become more popular than ever recently. So if you use your Christmas packaging several times, you are making an important contribution to nature conservation.
Wrap boxes in wrapping paper and decorate with handmade labels
So if you want to do something good for the environment, you can wrap your gifts in plain wrapping paper and decorate them with homemade labels. Cut out several details from colored paper and make thema Christmas treetogether. The label looks particularly effective when you combine several tone-on-tone details. Decorate the Christmas tree with a bow and the sustainable Christmas packaging is ready. The rule of thumb also applies here: It's better to craft with scraps of paper. As far as possible, try not to tear open the packaging and throw it away right after Christmas, but instead save it and reuse it.
Make Christmas bags and decorate them with natural materials
It's not just resources that are wasted in the production of Christmas packaging. Coated colorful packaging paper looks very nice, but is not recyclable. Packaging paper, on the other hand, can be recycled and is therefore a sustainable and cost-effective option. Presents of any shape can be packed in Christmas bags made of simple packaging paper. And with a bit of skill you can add a stylish touch to the bagsDecoration made from natural materialsbeautify. For example, make beautiful mini wreaths out of laurel branches, fir greenery or boxwood. Cut a circle out of white cardboard and glue it as a base. Write “Merry Christmas” or the recipient’s name on the box. Additionally decorate the Christmas bag with a red bow and a wide striped decorative ribbon.
Decorate boxes with pine branches
Another very cool idea is to decorate the boxes or gift boxes with cypress branches. Organize a trip to the countryside and have the family help collect natural materials. With the finds from nature you can thenSpice up Christmas packaging. Natural materials are 100% biodegradable and many of them last a very long time and can be used next year if desired. Unfortunately, cypress branches are very sensitive and lose their beautiful green color after just 4-5 days, but fir branches can last for several weeks. And you can also make artificial snow yourself. All you need is coarse salt mixed with a bit of glue. Then let the artificial snow dry at room temperature. Use an old toothbrush to regularly spread the artificial snow onto the “Christmas tree” made of cypress branches. Complete!
Make your own Christmas packaging from music paper
Would you like to make creative but at the same time classic Christmas packaging? Decorate your giftswith nut paper. You can buy special wrapping paper with notes in stores, but this is usually coated. Coated paper cannot be recycled and is therefore referred to as residual waste. In addition, certain pollutants are released during production. So instead of buying coated glossy music paper, you can buy a music book or music book and use it to wrap the gifts. You can then write down the sheet music of your favorite song on music writing paper or find the sheet music online, download it and print it out. Tie the presents with twine and decorate them with Christmas bells. Don't forget to make a pendant out of brown wrapping paper.
Make and paint boxes yourself
Not all Christmas packaging should be green, red and gold. If you want a stylish decoration, match the color of the packaging to the color scheme of the Christmas decorations. Especially in recent years, romantic relationships have become more and more playfulDecorations in pastel shadesenforced. Soft pink and silver form a particularly attractive duo that gives the Christmas tree a vintage flair. Matching: Beautifully packaged gifts in homemade and lovingly painted boxes.
You need the following materials and accessories for the craft instructions shown above: white construction paper, a brush, watercolors, a matching satin decorative ribbon, scissors, a hole punch, a ruler and a pencil with an eraser. First, paint the wrapping paper and let it dry. Then place it on the table with the painted side facing down. Place the gift in the center of the wrapping paper and cut out two strips. The first strip should be the same width and 2.5 times as long as the gift. The width of the second strip should correspond to the length of the gift. It should be wide enough for you to wrap around the gift. Punch a total of eight holes in the paper and pull the decorative ribbon through them. Tie its ends into a bow. You can additionally decorate the packaging with silver Christmas balls.
Stamp wrapping paper
Do you love colorful wrapping paper and don't want to go without it? Then you can make the colorful paper yourself! You will need plain wrapping paper or construction paper and a stamping tool set. Most stamp tool sets include gold, bronze, white, green, and black stamp and paper inks, an ink pad or stippling brush to apply the colors, and one or more holiday-themed silicone stamp sets. All the necessary materials and tools are available in craft shops. Simply place the wrapping paper on the plate of the stamp tool, attach it with magnets on all four corners, apply the desired color to the silicone stamp and use it to stamp the gift. Continue with the other stamps until you have created colorful wrapping paper. In addition, you can cut out certain natural motifs from colorful cardboard, tie a satin ribbon in nude color or make labels yourself.
Decorate gifts with fragrant natural materials
You are looking for an effective and cost-effective idea for aLast-MinuteGift wrapping? Then the next idea is just right for you. Buy Christmas bags made from wrapping paper or wrap gift boxes with them. Make paper tags and tie them to the gifts with twine. Decorate the gifts with fragrant natural materials: pine branches exude a pleasant resin scent in the room, lavender branches bring a Mediterranean touch into your own four walls. Holly leaves, ferns, moss and even fresh flowers can also brighten up gift wrapping.
Marble paper
Another variant for everyone who would rather avoid packaging paper from stores and instead make their own gift wrapping. With a little skill you can marble your paper. We'll explain how it works. You need: white construction paper (optionally tissue paper), a baking tray, baking paper, a ruler, shaving cream, acrylic paint, a shish kebab skewer. First line the baking tray with baking paper and spray plenty of shaving cream on it. Use the ruler to spread and smooth the shaving cream evenly on the baking paper. Drop several drops of acrylic paint onto the shaving foam and try to distribute the paint with the kebab skewer so that the desired marble look is created. Once you're happy with the marble effect, you can press a sheet of construction paper onto the shaving foam and then carefully use the ruler to scrape off any remaining foam. Let the paper dry completely and then you can use it to wrap smaller presents.
Make Christmas packaging: Decorate gifts with wool yarn
Would you like to add an extra splash of color to your Christmas packaging? Then you can tie the gift with leftover wool yarn instead of decorative ribbon. You can also cut out a star from the already marbled cardboard and make a colorful pendant. Dilute paint with a little water and use the round eraser of a pencil as a stamp template. Use the eraser to stamp white dots onto the wrapping paper.
Sustainable DIY Gift Wrapping Ideas: Emoji Gifts
Often you don't need any packaging paper at all, because you can make very creative packaging yourself using cardboard. For example, the children will be happy if you wrap their presents in yellow cardboard and then draw funny emoji faces on them. Optionally, you can cut out the emoji eyes and mouth from cardboard or felt and glue them onto the gifts. An extremely imaginative packaging idea for large gift boxes.
If you stick a silver pompom on the lid of a red box and arrange the presents on top of each other, you can even create an emoji Santa Claus from several gift boxes. A lovingly labeled gift would also go perfectly with this. You can wrap it with white paper and stamp “Merry Christmas” on it using a stencil. All you need is a suitable paint and a brush. Place the stencil on the paper, attach it with magnets or tape if necessary and apply the paint to it. Carefully remove the stencil once finished and allow the paint to dry completely before continuing.
At Christmas we want to bring joy to our family. But free time is scarce, creativity is lacking and there islots of giftsthat urgently need to be packed. We advise you not to use wrapping paper despite the Christmas stress. An imaginatively packaged present is something very special that the recipient is guaranteed to look forward to. And when you make your Christmas wrapping instead of buying it, you're doing something good for the environment. Because the wrapping paper that we tear up at Christmas and throw away immediately afterwards is difficult or impossible to recycle. We have already shown you several examples of how you can wrap gifts beautifully and sustainably. You can find more inspiring examples in the photo gallery below.
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