Introduction to Gift Wrapping with Recycled Items

Series Summary

Wrapping has been a part of giving gifts for centuries. It makes the act of giving a gift to someone that much more enjoyable because it is allows both the person receiving and the person giving to see one another's reactions at the moment the gift it revealed. This way both parties are privy to the joy instead of only the person receiving. Gift wrapping seems so ingrained in our society that we look forward to days like Christmas and birthdays partially because of opening a gift or two.

In this free video series, you will learn how to wrap gifts use recycled items. Don't throw your cans, papers, and bottles away, turn them into treasures and give them to somebody else. Get tips on how to use these items in creative ways to wrap gifts for the people you love. The experts at ExpertVillage want to help you spread the joy of giving while remaining eco-friendly.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Karina Fraley for Expert Village. Today I'm giving you some ideas to use recycled items to wrap your Christmas gifts. Of course we all now about saving the bags, wrapping paper and the bows and reusing them. Of course everybody does that but you can actually take it a step further and use some household items that are just laying around. Something like a coffee can or a glass jar, old calender paper, little scraps of fabric and yarn lots of different things you can use to really embellish a gift wrapping. It makes it seem a lot more personalized like if you took this little extra time side from just going to store picking up some wrapping paper. Look around your house, pick out some items that look like they can be reused and get creative. I'm going to give you some ideas but certainly take the ideas and run with them. There is all kinds of things around your house I'm sure that you can use to create some really cute and unique wrapping."