Like many of us, you probably received your fair share of gifts in disposable wrapping paper this year. And that’s ok! There are so many different ways that you can reuse it. Besides saving it for next year, if you don’t tear into your presents like I do, here are six craft projects utilizing any wrapping paper you received this season.
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1. Wrapping Paper Stars
You can get started early on next year’s decorations with these beautiful wrapping paper stars from Family Fun. These would look great hanging from next year’s tree or the mantle.
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2. Gift Wrap Bow
You could whip up a bunch of these recycled gift wrap bows from Momfetti and have plenty of bows to adorn presents year round. You could even combine different patterns of paper in one bow for an even more unique looking topper.
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3. Wrapping Paper Greeting Cards
Besides wrapping paper, you may have even received some of your gifts in cardboard gift boxes. Recycle both of them by making these greeting cards found on Whole Living. How great would it be to say thank you to someone with a card made from the materials they packaged your present in?
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4. Wrapping Paper Gift Tag
Along with your gift wrap bows, you can also make the gift tags featured in this video on Videojug. To make it even more eco-friendly, use cereal boxes to adhere the wrapping paper to.
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5. Gift Wrap Pencil Holder
With just a 9×9 piece of wrapping paper, you can whip up one of these origami pen and pencil cups found on metacafe. Your desk or workspace will look cheerful and festive all year round.
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6. Wrapping Paper Beads
Our own Becky Streipe points you to a video on how to make beads from magazine pages. The same technique will easily apply to wrapping paper, though, and you’ll get great results.
What are you going to do with the wrapping paper you received this year? Do you like to save the paper and use it next year or are you going to craft with it? I would love to hear some of your ideas and suggestions. Feel free to leave some links and comments.
{Wrapping paper tubes image by fauxto_digit via Flickr Creative Commons, Paper stars image via Family Fun, Paper bow image via Momfetti, Greeting card image via whole living, Wrapping paper image by madelinetosh via Flickr Creative Commons, Pencils image by Bruno Monginoux/landscape-photo.net via Flickr Creative Commons}
We save some wrapping paper to reuse, make some into gift bags and origami boxes, and recycle the rest.
We save some wrapping paper to reuse, make some into gift bags and origami boxes, and recycle the rest.
When doing my search for this article I found some really great origami box projects, do you have any tutorials or books that you like to follow?
Look complicated, but I would like to know how to make it, can I find instructions anywhere?
Like these ideas, especially the paper star. It looks tricky to make though. The rest are very easy.
you can also use decent sizes of paper to make origami crafts
that will look like christmas i did that and it was fun you can
also wrap already made origami crafts in the wrapping paper
and hang them around the house a decorations