Wrapping Presents
Easy And Beautiful Ways Of Wrapping Presents
If you’re a fan of design, you might concur with us when we suggest that wrapping presents are a kind of art form—the ideal temporary canvas on which to experiment with whatever hues, forms, and textures are currently inspiring you.
Giving someone a present or gift that has been wrapped demonstrates your thoughtfulness and helps your loved one feel even more special. If you carefully make all of your folds and cuts, gift wrapping is simple. Once you’ve finished the fundamental wrapping, add bows and other decorations to give the gift a special touch. You’ll have a lovely gift to give a loved one once you’re done.
Finding the ideal gifts for friends and family is such pleasure and satisfaction. Who doesn’t enjoy watching someone’s face light up as they open a gift and are overjoyed to find it to be exactly what they were hoping for the entire year? But make sure they are equally as impressed with your expert-looking wrapping work before they send paper and ribbon flying (to the recycling bin, of course).
Grab your favorite wrapping paper, a pair of sharp scissors, some high-quality ribbon, and some double-sided tape, then start honing your wrapping techniques because someone’s birthday, baby shower, wedding, or whatever else is coming up, is constantly approaching.
How to Perfectly Wrap Any Present: Your Step-by-Step Guide
It is quite advantageous to have a big, flat workplace when wrapping gifts. Our new craft room’s work table makes it simple to assemble all of our materials while still leaving room to spread out a sizable roll of wrapping paper.
Starting with a sheet of wrapping paper that is properly sized and cut is the single most crucial step in neatly wrapping a gift.
10 Steps to Perfect Wrapping Presents
1. Place your item on top of the unwrapped, face-down wrapping paper. If your gift is a rectangle, place the box’s longer sides parallel to the roll’s end. Until the box is completely covered, fold the paper’s end up and over the present. Add 1 inch where the end of the wrapping paper meets the end of the end. This shows how wide your paper is.
2. From bottom to top, cut in line with the mark. You need should now have a piece of wrapping paper that is too long yet wide enough to cover your gift completely.
3. Verify that the box is still there. Next, fold the top edge of the wrapping paper up until it reaches just over the halfway point of the box’s side. For instance, you want the paper to be around 3.5 inches long if your box is 6 inches tall. Cut down the bottom border of the box in the same manner.
4. Now that your gift box is the right size, you should have a piece of wrapping paper. The paper should cover the entire box, from left to right. The paper should cover the box’s sides halfway up from top to bottom.
5. Wrap the paper so that the left and right sides meet in the center and go up and over the box. Tape the paper in place after pulling it taut.
6. Fold over the paper as shown, then crease it over the corner on the top open end. For further security, secure this to the box with tape.
7. Again, make the paper crease as shown.
8. As shown, tuck the two creased ends inside. The bottom flap should be folded up, creased firmly, and taped.
9. Continue at the other end. Take a moment to admire your picture-perfect present wrapping then!
10. Add your preferred ribbon or bow!
The Purpose of Wrapping Presents
Finally, your parents have granted their approval. A slew of bows, twine, and ornamental paper are all that stand between you and parcels packed with pleasure and excitement. Take a moment to wonder why the wrapping paper is even there before you start ripping into it, though!
The custom of exchanging gifts predates the contemporary holidays that we observe each winter. Numerous holidays involved gift-giving in many ancient societies. People have been wrapping gifts for a very long time because they have always wanted to keep a gift’s identity a secret until the perfect time. According to historians, the practice of gift-wrapping using paper probably began not long after paper was created thousands of years ago.
However, modern wrapping paper is a considerably more recent creation. Gifts were typically wrapped in plain tissue paper or thick brown paper more than 100 years ago. Before that, the fabric was frequently utilized as a handkerchief or a napkin.
It took until the early 1900s for the technology to be developed to mass-produce decorative, easily foldable wrapping paper. Eli Hyman and Morris Silverman established Hy-Sill Manufacturing Inc., the first gift-wrapping business in the United States, in 1903.
Present-wrapping back then wasn’t as simple as it is now. Early gift wrappers had to properly secure wrapped parcels with thread and sealing wax because adhesive tape wasn’t created until 1930.
Wrapping paper has developed through time into the vibrant selections we see in stores during the Christmas season. However, some individuals have begun to be concerned about the environmental impact of wrapping paper.
The majority of the additional 5 million tons of waste produced during the holidays in the United States, according to scientists, comes from wrapping paper and shopping bags. Some individuals meticulously open gifts so that the wrapping paper can be reused to reduce this waste. Some people have begun to use reusable gift bags for wrapping paper.
Tips For Wrapping A Large Number Of Presents
Keep the gift tags with them: Write names on your gift tags and keep them alongside the presents before you begin wrapping. As you wrap the gift, affix the tag to keep track of the recipient (if you don’t use tags, use sticky notes).
Find your pattern: Choose gifts that require similar wrappings, such as basic boxes or bags with tissue paper, and wrap them all at once. Make one first to determine the required materials and procedures, and then set up an effective assembly line.
Create stations: You have everything you need to encircle a single surface. A prep table (where price tags are taken off and gift tags are added), a wrapping area (a flat surface with boxes, wrapping paper, scissors, and tape), and an embellishment area can also be made (ribbons, bows, add-ons, more tape).
Give it a whole vibe: With your favorite beverage, Christmas music or a movie, a candle, or a smell diffuser, you can transform it into a relaxing holiday routine (away from the action, of course).