How to Wrap a Christmas Gift with Cardboard

Series Summary

The celebration of Christmas marks one of the most festive holidays of the year. Traditionally a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, Christmas has taken on a myriad of secular customs and activities. The exchange of gifts and presents placed under a Christmas tree by Santa Claus is certain to bring fond memories for many children in Western cultures, and tales of Rudolph leading eight reindeer on the roof are classics. Often Christmas activities incorporate winter activities like sipping hot cocoa or using winter foliage as Christmas decorations.

In this series of free videos you'll get tips for wrapping Christmas gifts. Expert Melissa Schenk shows you how to use recycled materials and other methods of wrapping Christmas presents that will save you money this year. Don't give in to the urge to buy expensive gift wrap. Watch these free videos and learn how to cut holiday spending and still spread Christmas cheer!

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name's Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village, today we are going to be talking about how to wrap a Christmas present cost effectively. In our first clip, let's talk about wrapping presents with something as simple as cardboard boxes or cardboard tubes. Depending on where you're purchasing your Christmas presents, a lot of stores even have cardboard boxes. Really pretty ones that they'll be able to actually give you to wrap your gifts in and you won't even necessary need the wrapping paper to go with it. Some boxes are so beautiful. You can get something as simple as a white plain cardboard box and then use color to dress it up. You can put stickers on it. You can dress it with ribbons or bows or you know all sorts of different like one large sticker bow to put on top of that. But something as simple as that cost you nothing but some ribbons and bows and no wrapping paper. Or depending on the gift that you might be giving, maybe it'll fit in to a cardboard tube like so. Doesn’t look all that fancy now but what you can do is you can dress it up in various ways. You can put some fancy ribbon on the end of it and dress it up as a nut cracker perhaps to match that. Or you could take a couple of different types of colored ribbon and dress is around like so and turn it in to, you know a candy cane and tape it off on both ends. I am showing you very quickly how to do this but if you're crafty, you use your imagination, you can, you know take things you already got in your house or some gift wrap from last year and you can do all kinds of things with some as simple as a cardboard tubes and cardboard boxes."