If your one of my beloved readers than you might well have guessed by the title of this post that the first thing on my list of greener items to wrap with would be….
1. Playsilks!
Yes, there is a child under all that silk busy dancing!
Play silks are fantastic for wrapping gifts, specially for children, they are played with in my home so so often by all the children, even the oldest! Of course silk scarfs are wonderful for your female friends. They can wear them or use them to wrap things next year. Just tie the silk around the object and tuck a card in with it. Or use real ribbon to tie the gift up with! The real ribbon can be reused as well.
2. Children’s Art Work
This makes wonderful wrapping paper and if you collect a great deal of it over the year you know it all adds up and you can’t really keep it all, so using in this way will give it another life before being recycled! You can also make bows with art work, will share this in a blog soon!
3. Fabric!
Do you have old T-Shirts you could cut and hem around so you can make it neat and wonderful? How about some spare fabric you meant to do something with but never got to it. Use it for wrap with string or sew up some simple gift bags with it and attach a note reminding the gifted person that they can save the bag and use it over and over!
There are so many ideas, do you have any that are eco-friendly that I should try this year?
I love your ideas for wrapping paper. I have all kinds of olf t-shirts that I can now have a great purpose for. I’m a new follower now. I want to see more of your great ideas.
Michelle
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Michelle, love those silks, how fun! I’m terrible at wrapping so maybe that will help! Thanks for stopping by, I’m now following back!
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You have shared some very good tips here Kimberly! Thanks for becoming a Follower of my Blog. I am now a Follower of your Blog and also on Twitter. Take care and enjoy the rest of your Tuesday.
It’s not a very creative idea (I’m not very creative), but the grocery store we shop at uses paper sacks, which can be re-used for wrapping gifts!
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I love these ideas. I think wrapping a gift with my son’s artwork would be fantastic for family members!
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TToria
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I’m using brown paper bags from the grocery store and twine this year!
I’m hoping they look like old time packages from a general store.