Wrapping Kids' Christmas Gifts

Many kids' gifts are bulky and sometimes hard to wrap. Wrapping paper especially for children can often get expensive too. So here are a few gift wrapping ideas that can help you wrap any gift.

• Make a few fabric gift bags. It is as simple as making a pillow case (in fact you could even use pillow cases if you wanted to) and they can be used for years. You can also make a bag as big as you need it, for covering large gifts like bikes. We have re-used the velvet red bag used as Santa’s Sack in our ‘North Pole Christmas Party’ theme to gift a large soft toy.

• Another great way to wrap kid's gifts is to let them create artwork. You can get large sheets of butcher paper or newspaper from most craft or party stores. Let your kids color, paint or stamp the paper.

You'll have one of a kind wrapping paper and the kids will love seeing their artwork wrapped around their gifts. Just encourage the kids to use bright colors.

• Lunch bags work great for smaller gifts. They can be decorated with stickers and then you can just fold down the top, punch a couple of holes and tie it closed with a ribbon.

• Christmas Bag: Take a piece of material 12 inches in length and 24 inches in width. Sew on a strip in a contrasting color at the mouth. Fold and sew to form a bag.

Sew on satin ribbons to make a handle. Tie on a Christmas ornament or toy to use as a Christmas gift bag.

• Instead of putting all of their candy in their stocking, use some of it as decoration on presents.

• Wrap the gift in white tissue paper, then cut pictures from magazines of some of the child's favorite things. Glue them to the paper.

• Keep those tablecloths from your kid's themed birthday party, and use them to wrap gifts. It saves you money and the kids will love the fact that the wrapping paper is something that they really love.

This article first appeared in the 'Celebrating Christmas PDF Magazine' which is a FREE magazine that you can download and even print out.