15 Gift Wrapping Tricks You Need To Know For The Holidays

The holiday season means that you will probably be buying a lot of gifts for your loved ones. And once you've picked the perfect presents, you're going to need to wrap them. Whether you're a novice looking for a way to make the process simpler or a wrapping savant who just wants some creative new ideas, you'll want to check out these genius gift wrapping hacks.

DIY Wrapping Paper Dispenser

Take a paper towel or toilet paper roll and cut it open lengthwise. Put the roll around the outside of your wrapping paper. Lastly, take the end of the wrapping paper and feed it through the slit in the roll so that wrapping paper feeds through it.

Quick Present Boxes

Use an empty butter tub or a Pringles can as a decorative container. Simply paint on the butter tub until all the labels and logos are gone and tie a ribbon around it. For the Pringles can decorate it with any picture or design you would like and add a ribbon.

Unique Newspaper Wrapping Paper

Use coffee to make a newspaper look aged and wrap your gifts with it to give it an antique feel. If you have children it might be fun if they drew grandma and grandpa’s wrapping paper. Another good idea is to take a pencil and use the eraser to dip in ink and leave polka dots on your make-shift wrapping paper.

Ceiling Storage

Put galvanized wire into the wall close to the ceiling. Add another wire a little less than a foot apart from the first. Slip your wrapping paper on top of the two wires and now you have your own personal ceiling storage space.

De-Wrinkled Ribbons

Flat iron a ribbon for your bow as if you were straightening your own hair. If you don’t have a flat iron then just take off a lamp shade and gently run the ribbon across the light bulb and it will be smooth again.

Personal Puzzle

Go online and look up “create your own crossword.” Use the crossword maker to add the receiver’s name and words that remind you of them. Leave the crossword puzzle unsolved but circle their name.

Toddler Decoration

Use a blank sheet of paper to wrap your child’s gift. Use colorful duct tape to attach crayons to the corner of the gift. Write a little note in an opposite corner with a message along the lines of “color me.”

Wrapped In Yarn

For an added simple but elegant decoration to your gifts, all you need is some yarn. Wrap the gift in yarn, experimenting in patterns.

Present Snowman

Wrap gifts in white paper with boxes of different sizes. Arrange three boxes with the largest on the bottom and the smallest on top. Now draw buttons on the bottom and middle boxes and a snowman’s face on the top one.

Christmas Critters

Do you have an animal lover in your home? If you have any small gifts to give them you could take presenting them to a different level. Place the small gifts on the backs of their favorite plastic animal figures and secure with string.

Forget Writing

Print out a large black and white photo of the receiver. Wrap the gift in solid colored wrapping paper. Paste the picture onto the front and you will also have an easier way for kids too young to read to find their gifts.

Natural Touch

Take the kids out to find acorns and leaves. Spray paint them with gold or silver paint. Tie the acorns and other foliage to ribbons on the gifts.

Lego Wrap

Wrap a gift in solid colored paper. Cut a paper towel roll into fourths or sixths and wrap them in the same color. Attach the pieces of the roll an inch away from each corner to make the gift into a Lego.

DIY Gift Tags

Purchase fun shaped hole punches from a craft store. Pick up free paint chip cards from Lowe’s. Punch out your new Christmas tags and customize.

Cheesy Presents

If you have a gag gift or just someone who enjoys simple jokes then this wrapping idea is the way to go. Get six or more gifts that are the same size. Print out large pictures of meat, lettuce, hamburger buns, cheese, and tomatoes. Wrap the gifts and stack them up to look like a cheeseburger.