7 Ways To Make DIY Gift Wrap: Fun For All Ages!

With Chanukah on the distant horizon, as well as gift giving season for many, it is nonetheless quickly approaching, so now is a great time to get those creative gears spinning with some fun projects to save for the future: DIY wrapping paper! The fun part about creating your own wrapping paper is that it is fun for all ages, and seeing little ones light up later on when their creations have been used to wrap gifts is just too precious to miss! DIY gift wrap is also a great way to practice some painting skills, or become familiar with all the fun ways one can print shapes, namely with potatos, sponges, kitchen tools, leaves, you name it! Ah yes, and then there is doodling and exploring the wide variety of art supplies with which to make  DIY wrapping paper, whether it be watercolor paint, acrylic paint, simple kid’s craft paint, stamp pads, or markers! Lets take a look at the seven ways we’ve made DIY gift wrap over the past ten years or so, and enjoy. After your wrapping paper had dried, roll it up, put it in a safe place and use as needed!

This DIY painted rose wrapping paper was made using inexpensive acrylic craft paint and large paper sheets and was actually a painting exercise to practice a certain loose technique for painting roses. This lovely rose gift wrap is perfect for so many occasions, so make a bunch to have on hand to use all year, and your painting skills will surely improve as well. Of course this is a great choice for mother’s day, a birthday, or even a romantic valentines gifts for her, because handmade steals the heart every time!

This sweet watercolor gift wrap was made using 11 x 17 printer paper and a perfect way to experiment with watercolors, especially is you have some left on the palette! Modern and fresh, and gifts wrapped in this paper would look amazing in a pile, right?
We made this fun potato print and sponge wrapping paper quite a few years ago, and the results were so gorgeous I wanted to frame the one shown here above. The weather was great that day, so we even did some of the larger pieces outside on our porch. And then something so sweet and memorable happened……

I went into the house to take care of something, and my littest son, about eight at the time created this huge work of art, just love it! Looking back I am so happy that I had this blog in order to truly record all these fun memories of creating together.

I created this lovely artful olive branch wrapping paper using potatos and stamp pads, and a marker to draw the stems, and the results are really fabulous, so do give it a try!

This DIY gift wrap from brush lettering practice pages idea is one that you can take in many directions, even using pages from old books or workbooks to wrap gifts! Here I’ve used brush lettering practice pages as gift wrap for small gifts, and the results are modern and fun. So dear readers, gift wrap can be made from so many of the paper goods you have floating around, go for it!
Need some fun gift wrap for the yarn lover in your life, or to wrap up a hand knit or crocheted gift? This idea is so simple and just perfect. So get some large sheets of newsprint and make a bunch of DIY doodle yarn wrapping paper to have on hand.

Last, but not least is this fun kid friendly DIY gift wrap printed using tools from the kitchen! This is truly a great project, and fun for all ages, and searching the kitchen drawers for printing tools is so much fun! This project is from ten years ago, wow, time certainly flies when you are busy crafting and filling the family’s life with creativity! I totally recommend it.

Hope you’ve enjoyed this roundup of DIY gift wrap, and of course there are many many more gift wrap ideas in my archives, my favorites being those using cereal boxes as gift boxes! So use those creative brain muscles and come up with lots of ways to package gifts in an eco friendly way.

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