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CREATE your own Wrapping Paper

1/1/2019

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Giving a gift that is wrapped in paper that the kids made themselves has always made them feel great.

There is also an additional sense of pride in creating something that is useful and meaningful. 

​Over the years, it has become a tradition leading up to Christmas to make our own Christmas wrapping paper but this activity is fun to do for Easter and birthday presents as well.

WHAT WE USE:
  • Various stamps or sponges cut into shapes or cookie cutters (Christmas cookie cutters work well for Christmas wrapping paper)
  • Large white sheets of paper
  • Paints in various colours (Christmas colours including red, green, yellow and orange)
  • Small flat trays or plates to pour paints into
Optional - glitter, clag, glitter glue or ribbon in Christmas colours

LET'S CREATE!
Pour a small amount of different coloured paint onto some trays and place the stamps, sponge shapes or cookie cutters on top of the paint. Stamp these shapes all over the white paper and repeat until the paper is covered with cheerful Christmas colours and shapes. After the paper has dried, it is ready for wrapping Christmas gifts with ribbon.
Optional - For some extra bling, squeeze some glitter glue or sprinkle glitter on some clag and onto the wrapping paper.

CONNECT & INSPIRE...
My kids enjoy getting actively messy with the paints and stamps, whilst creating their personalised pieces of wrapping paper. This is also an opportune time for the kids to learn to share the stamps and paint trays amongst themselves. Mamas can enjoy hanging the kids' home-made wrapping paper up to dry and then help the kids wrap the pressies.  
2 Comments
Pam
8/2/2019 04:19:14 pm

As someone who enjoys wrapping presents, I really love this idea. I want to try this activity with my 2.5yr old!

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Dawn
8/2/2019 09:43:28 pm

That's great Pam! So excited that you love this idea and hopefully your 2.5yr old has tons of fun doing it with you. Would love to hear how it goes x

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