Eco-Friendly Gift Wrapping Ideas

Christmas Gift Wrapping has always been considered an art and creative minds are forever busy coming up with new ideas to wrap their gifts. This year, however, let us all think differently and add the feature of ‘responsibility’ to our wraps. A responsibility towards the environment. These eco-friendly gift wrapping ideas are just what the world needs today.

Two beautiful, green ways of wrapping your gifts this year are to use re-usable fabric wraps and recycle brown paper found around your house.

Furoshiki

Let’s do as the Japanese do! The Japanese art of Furoshiki is a lovely way to wrap a gift. Using a lovely piece of scarf or dish towel will double as another gift.

Here are two basic folds for rectangular and square shaped gifts:

These videos will give you more furoshiki ideas for gifts of all shapes and sizes.

Brown Paper Gift Wrap

Brown paper gift wraps are not a new idea but they are mostly avoided because we fail to make them pretty. Embellish your brown paper wrapped gifts with scraps of handmade paper and matching ribbon. Use your Christmas colors and you will find out how versatile brown paper wrap can be.