Earth Friendly Wrapping Paper Ideas

This holiday season, consider using earth-friendly wrapping paper for wrapping presents for your friends and family. There are ways you can help your environment by simply choosing earth-friendly ways to wrap your Christmas presents. By using earth friendly Christmas present wrapping ideas for your presents this year, you are doing your part in helping to save the planet. Here are some ideas that may help you with your earth friendly Christmas present wrapping.

Everyone loves receiving special gifts from children. This year, instead of using wrapping paper for your Christmas presents, have your children color Christmas scenes on recycles paper. Let them use crayons, colored pencils, markers, paint, or whatever medium they chose to decorate the recycled earth-friendly paper. Once the paper is decorated and dry, use this paper to wrap your gifts! It will make your presents extra special and your wrapping paper unique!

Another earth-friendly way you can uniquely wrap your Christmas gifts this year is by recycling the newspaper. Since you already have the newspaper in your home, why not use this for wrapping your Christmas gifts. If you are worried about not having color on your newspaper you can always add decorations. This is a great earth-friendly way to wrap presents this Christmas!

Uniqueness is the key to making earth-friendly wrapping paper. Why not recycle magazines and make a patchwork array of different pictures for wrapping paper this Christmas. You can choose a variety of whole page advertisements that are eye catching and tape them together and use it for wrapping paper. Christmas presents will have a unique appearance and others will envy your creative as well as your earth-friendly wrapping paper idea!

You can skip the wrapping paper idea this year and use Christmas baskets for wrapping your presents in. This is a simple way of wrapping presents that doesn't call for wrapping paper at all! Rather than purchasing wrapping paper, visit your local Dollar Store and pick up a variety of sizes of baskets. Baskets are reusable and earth-friendly. Put your Christmas presents in baskets and decorate them with a bow! Your gifts will be the talk of the century this Christmas and what a great idea too! A gift inside a gift. Take out the present and you have a neat container for storage.

You can find wrapping paper that is made of completely recycled paper. This is an earth-friendly way of wrapping Christmas presents when you really want to use traditional wrapping paper. It is a great way for wrapping presents for children.

Recycled bags are another way you can help do your part for the environment. Use recycled bags to wrap your presents in. Save time and be earth-friendly in the process this Christmas!

When visiting the grocery store, ask to have your groceries placed in paper bags. Save the paper bags from now until Christmas. Use the paper bags for Christmas wrapping paper. You can always add color as you see fit. This is a unique idea for do-ii-yourself wrapping paper that is earth-friendly!

You can always make cloth wrapping paper out of cloth sacks or old clothing. By using clean old clothes or other forms of cloth material you have lying around the house you can make earth-friendly wrapping paper that will really be original and nifty. Old tee-shirts work great! You can sew up the bottom of the tee-shirt and cut out the sleeves and the top. This makes a neat, fill able sack for stuffing with Christmas presents. What a great earth-friendly present wrapping idea!

There are many ways to be earth-friendly this holiday season. These are just a few ideas to give you a push in the right direction. Enjoy your holidays and remember to be earth-friendly!