How to Wrap a Gift

Running woefully late on your holiday giftwrapping? Trying to get a serious head start on next year? Got a birthday coming up for someone special?

Here's a quick Instructable on how to wrap your gift, be it a simple box or something a little more oddly-shaped.

Step 1 Gather supplies

What you need:

• your gift!

If it's in a box, or if you can put it in an appropriately-sized box, great! That makes things easy. If not, don't worry. Do remember to take the price tag off.

• scissors
• tape
• ribbon
• wrapping paper

You can use store-bought, or you can recycle or make your own. For this demonstration, I grabbed some plain brown paper that was used as packing material. The important bit is that your wrapping paper should be large enough to, well, wrap all the way around your gift.

For ideas on how to make nifty & colorful recycled giftwrap, check out the Instructables on using old maps, screen-printing newspaper, and painting your own giftwrap.

Note: Since this is a quick demonstration Instructable, all my materials are of the "random bits and pieces hanging around at the Instructables HQ" sort. I'd suggest giving more exciting and less entirely-random gifts, using more colorful and perhaps less wrinkled paper, and not going with safety-orange and neon-lime-green as your ribbon colorscheme, unless your gift-recipient is colorblind or just loves safety-orange and neon-lime-green.

Comments

[GorillazMiko]

Is that noahw? Nice job anyways, I like your purple and black finger gloves.

[reno_dakota]

It is indeed, and thank you! And yeah, fingerless gloves make my life better when it's all wet and chilly outside.

[canida]

Wow, this will come in useful next time I need to wrap a mannequin head!

[reno_dakota]

Someday, a mannequin head will be the Most Perfect Present for someone. And now you'll be prepared. :)