How to wrap

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Me and my brother have a running joke of wrapping/gifting presents in an unusual way. Last year I gave £20 in 20ps. Also done many layers of paper, little box in bigger boxes, wrapped to look like something else and something cheap in an expensive brand box. I've run out of ideas. Anyone got a creative way to wrap his present. Haven't bought anything yet. He's 19.

I saw something on line where people would use card to make shapes and then wrap those. So socks would be split between two empty tubs of sweets, with the inner tube from a role of wrapping paper taped to the lids at each end, to make it look like a set of weights, which would then be wrapped to show the shape. Or empty boxes would be used to create odd shapes and disguise the box that the gift is in.

Or you could get something small, wrap it in a sandwich bag and set it in jelly, in a Tupperware box.

Love the jelly idea

Treasure hunt. So the first thing he opens is a small box containing instructions of where to look for the next clue.

We wrapped ds's Switch in amongst 24 bags of crisps.. Tbh he was actually buzzing about the crisps before he saw the console!

When I was a child we had several presents under the tree for days (or longer) before Christmas. One year one of my presents was getting smaller and smaller as the days went on - turns out they'd wrapped some balloons in with my present.

Wrap it up in something else, for example use a scarf or bobble hat instead of wrapping paper.

If it's something that won't damage, get an uncut loaf of bread, cut a hole in the base, pull out some of the bread, push the gift inside, replace the piece of crust, then tie the loaf with a ribbon to keep it all in place.
You could do a similar idea with a cake, make a hollow in the cake for the gift then seal it all together with icing.

It all depends what the gift is of course! Perhaps make a Piñata and put the gift inside with some sweets?

One of my dc’s got a huge box of balloons from my sil and a pin to pop them. She had put all sorts of odds and ends in the balloons and money in some of them.

With hindsight it wasn’t the best idea for a child - ds got scared by the loud bangs, but it might be fun for an adult.

I might do £2/£1 coins in a picture frame for my DS.
One year I bought a personalised childrens book. (Like Bobby Saves. Christmas ) but with his name and pinned £100 in £10 notes in the pages with really snazzy paperclips

DS is24 next birthday 🤣

Put it in a ziplock bag, fill the bag with air and zip it closed, then wrap it. Funny shape and it rattles about.

In a cleaned out Pringles tube, then wrapped - he'll probably be puzzled and perhaps a little put out that Pringles is all you bought him!

Set it in plaster of Paris and let him excavate his way in!! Like those dinosaur kits you can get for kids.

Wrap it in playdoh!

he’ll have fun unwrapping it and getting all the niggly bits out