Creative, Free, and Recycled Ideas for Gift Wrapping

The next occasion you have to give a gift, save money and the environment by checking out some of these super-easy ways to wrap presents with the help of Threadbanger. For more information about this project, check out the video! Want more Threadheads and DIY fashion? Subscribe on iTunes!

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Step 1: Potatoes and a Brown Paper Bag

Get out a potato, cut it in half. With a marker, cut a simple shape onto the potato. With an exacto knife, carefully cut away the negative parts of your shape. And, you have a potato stamp!

Take out an old paper bag, open up the bottom, and cut it down the sides so it lays flat.

Get out some acrylic paint and brush it onto your stamp. Press the stamp firmly to your paper and repeat until you are happy with the look.

Wait for it to dry, then wrap up the gift!

Just cut out a little rectangle for a card, and you're done!

souske25 says: Dec 4, 2009. 9:27 PM

THATS A YAM NOT A POTATO!
or at least i think it is
maybe its a sweet potato
is ther a difference?

SirJoey says: Nov 27, 2009. 4:40 AM

Congratulations guys, on some very kool, creative, & earth-friendly ideas! FANTASTIC production on the vid, too! Kudos to you, & thanx for posting! :)

kyannik says: Nov 17, 2009. 2:27 PM

These are some great ideas. I don't really get the rolled up music book pages as a decoration thing though. You could cut it or tear it into smaller pieces and put a blank label to make them gift tags. Or use them to wrap smaller gifts.

tsikoman says: Jul 1, 2008. 1:41 AM

i loved the potato thing!

doommeister says: Jun 9, 2008. 3:10 PM

Like the astroturf, would feel bad destroying a comic to wrap a present. You could however scan and print the comic to save destroying the original. To add to the list in step five, in my youth (not so very long ago) I had a friend who would wrap presents in pages from erm.... gentleman's magazines.