Beautiful and planet-friendly alternative wrapping ideas

It’s the thought that counts more than anything, but here in the ‘Love Thame Hate Waste’ team, we have to admit we do love beautifully wrapped gifts, both giving and receiving. And if the beautiful wrapping does happen to use recycled materials, it doesn’t get better than that!

Ideas include:

  • Using book pages (but only of damaged books that otherwise would be going in the recycling), newspaper and string
  • Using brown paper, live plants and pine cones, and fabric?
  • That shirt that isn’t quite good enough for the charity shop? Once you’ve made your mask from the body of the shirt, the sleeves make the perfect bottle wrap!
  • Using newspaper with fabric ribbon and gift card tags

Here are some links to sources we found which we hope will inspire you:

The so-called ‘Unoriginal Mom’ provides 15 brown paper wrapping ideas here: https://www.unoriginalmom.com/15-brown-paper-wrapping-ideas-for-christmas/

And how about making gift tags? Look no further: https://diyprojects.com/diy-gift-tags-homemade-christmas-gifts/

And for the ultimate creativity, check out a beautiful day blog . 

Happy wrapping!

  • gift wrapped in newspaper and brown string
  • Wine bottle gift wrap using old shirt sleeves
  • Brown paper, string and pinecone as decoration
  • Fabric wrapping paper
  • Brown paper, string and leaf decoration
  • several gifts all wrapped in white paper with red ribbon.
  • gift wrapped in newspaper and brown string
  • Wine bottle gift wrap using old shirt sleeves
  • Brown paper, string and pinecone as decoration
  • Fabric wrapping paper
  • Brown paper, string and leaf decoration
  • several gifts all wrapped in white paper with red ribbon.