How to Wrap Flowers for a Gift

Whether you make your own bouquet or buy one from a shop, you can wrap it up to display your personality and creativity.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Ribbons
• Scarves
• City Maps
• Old Newspapers
• Decorative Paper
• Scrap Papers

1. Consider wrapping flowers in different vases. Creative options include wire wrapped into coils, old lamps with wiring removed, collages created from paper towel tubes, old Pringle canisters or milk cartons.

2. Bind stems with ribbon, silk scarves, colored strings or wires, or scraps of unusual material including leather, satin, comics, newspapers, art paper, butcher wrap, bubble wrap and calendars.

3. Fit the wrap to the occasion: good-bye bouquets wrapped in colorful maps, anniversary flowers in wedding day newspapers or graduation roses in book covers with a graduation tassel.

4. Wrap Mother's Day flowers in a chef's apron or rock climber's rope. Fiancés get white tulips wrapped up with a wedding cake figure tied to the ribbon.

5. Keep in mind that craft stores are full of inexpensive baubles to dress up a flower gift.

Tips & Warnings

• Layers of tissue paper are a perfect wrap, as are tissue boxes covered with decoupage.

[EarthMother]

on 7/29/2009 How to Wrap Flowers for a Gift has some excellent new ideas I've not thought of. Smile!

on 11/22/2005 When you put flowers in a vase, you should decorate the vase with things that the receiver likes, like glitter, bows, and other cool things.