DIY New Year's gift wrapping for children. How to pack a New Year's gift or DIY New Year's packaging

The beautiful design of a New Year's gift is no less important than the gift itself. In stores now there is no shortage of choice of gift wrapping for the New Year. But we advise you to take the time to make your own New Year's packaging. Original, exclusive packaging will make your gift special and unique. The person to whom you give your gift will be doubly pleased, because by devoting time to preparing a gift for him, you thereby show a special attitude towards him.

In this article we will tell you how to make original New Year's packaging for small gifts and sweets, how to make a New Year's box from cardboard yourself. You will also learn how to pack larger gifts and learn how to make New Year's wrapping paper yourself.

Packaging for small gifts and sweets

1. DIY Christmas packaging (option 1)

Templates for miniature New Year's gift boxes can be downloaded from these links:

Print them out on thick paper and cut them out. Make additional cuts along the dotted lines. Bend and fold the boxes. There is no need to glue them.

Another original solution for small gifts is DIY New Year's packaging made from a matchbox. Cover a matchbox with colored paper or scrapbooking paper and make a New Year's applique on it.

2. New Year's gift wrapping (option 2)

Children will love the idea of making candy-shaped Christmas packaging for small gifts.

A beautiful congratulatory inscription can be made on New Year's packaging if you cut out each letter from an old magazine or advertising brochure. Letters should be of different sizes, colors, styles.

Templates for New Year's packaging in the form of candies with nameplates can be downloaded from this website.

If you are going to give someone a chocolate bar for the New Year, then take the time to spend 15-20 minutes turning it into a cheerful snowman. To do this, you just need to wrap a chocolate bar in a white sheet of paper and draw a snowman’s face or make an applique from colored paper. The hat can be made from felt or an unnecessary glove.

You can download a ready-made snowman wrapper template for chocolates from the link:

For video instructions on how to make a Santa Claus wrap, see. Note: You will have to wait a bit at the beginning of the video for an advertisement.

3. How to make gift wrapping with your own hands (option 3)

A surprise balloon is a very original and inexpensive way to give a child a holiday gift. Such balloons can be given to all children who come to your child for his birthday or for some other occasion. It’s even better not to give them as gifts, but to hide them in the apartment, and whoever finds which ball will receive it. Making a ball with a surprise is not at all difficult; it is more difficult to choose a useful “filling” for it. The “stuffing” can be any small interesting things, toys, high-quality sweets, for example: children’s jewelry, wristwatches, hairpins, small cars or dolls, stickers, shells, beautiful pebbles, balloons, a mirror, a notebook, magnets, animal figurines, cookies , sweets and much, much more. To make one ball, it will be enough to prepare 3-4 things.

The surprises prepared in advance will need to be wrapped with ribbons of corrugated paper, so that you end up with a cocoon in the shape of a ball with gifts hidden inside. It is better to place the most valuable thing in the center of the ball. The process of making a surprise ball is reminiscent of an episode from the movie “The Diamond Arm,” in which smugglers hid jewelry in plaster.

The finished ball can be decorated if desired.

4. How to make New Year's packaging (option 4)

New Year's packaging for sweets and other nice little things can be made from craft paper. Like this:

If you don’t have craft paper, you can try sewing on any other fairly thick paper on a sewing machine. Or fasten the packaging with a stapler. Just be sure to leave room for the packaging to rip.

New Year's packaging for medium and large gifts

1. Original gift packaging. How to make a gift box with your own hands (option 1)

Krokotak.com also offers ready-made templates for New Year's gift packaging.

And another cute New Year's box with a snowflake. Assembly instructions at the link >>>> Template can be downloaded

2. How to pack a New Year's gift (option 2)

Another option for packaging a gift for the New Year is to wrap it in craft paper and then decorate it in an original way. For instructions on how to wrap a gift in paper, see.

How you can decorate a New Year's gift, see below.

Using a hole punch, make confetti from colored paper, then paste it over a New Year's gift wrapped in paper.

Cut thin ribbons from colored corrugated paper to make decorations for packaging.

You can decorate a New Year's gift with homemade or purchased pom-poms

paper flags

paper snowflakes (Note: how to cut beautiful snowflakes from paper, see the link >>>>)

lace

cones, spruce branches

small Christmas tree toys

garland of buttons

New Year's applique

You can wrap a New Year's gift in a regular newspaper or a magazine spread, and then decorate it with this original weaving of strips of colored paper.

Or make a bow like this from strips of paper. Making such a decoration for New Year's packaging is very simple. For instructions, see or.

An interesting solution is to wrap a New Year's gift first in wrapping paper of one color, then another. After that, on the top layer, draw one half of some New Year’s picture. Cut along the contour and fold. Simple and tasteful!

3. How to pack a gift for the New Year. How to wrap a gift in paper (option 3)

You can also make packaging yourself from any paper using purchased or homemade stamps.

Original ideas for making children's stamps can be found at the following links:

link- 1 (plasticine stamps) >>>>
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link-3 >>>>
link- 4 (stamps made of foam patches) >>>>
link-5 (raw potato stamps) >>>>
link-6 (homemade roller stamp) >>>>

4. New Year's packaging. New Year's gifts (option 4)

You can wrap a New Year's gift not only in wrapping paper, but also, for example, in a beautiful fabric

or a sleeve from an old, unwanted sweater. The result will be a warm, sincere gift.

5. DIY Christmas packaging. Boxes with embroidery (option 5)

Everyone knows that mistletoe is a plant with soul and magic! Once a year, on Christmas Eve, a kiss under a bunch of pearl mistletoe berries can replace a declaration of love and a marriage proposal! So, if you are also planning to propose to your beloved girl (on New Year’s Eve!), wrap the treasured ring in a package like this, decorated with a bunch of paper-pearl mistletoe. Your chosen one will probably understand everything without further ado, having found such a gift under her Christmas tree! Material for mistletoe leaves: green felt. Material for berries: mother-of-pearl beads.

Idea No. 8. Mittens

Another festive, truly joyful option for New Year's gift packaging is a label in the shape of cute Santa Claus mittens. They can be made by cutting them out of thin red polypropylene, or from simple colored cardboard. As decoration for such mittens, you can use machine zigzag stitching, vinyl stickers, or simply snowflake drawings made randomly using a corrector pencil. Another special point: the wrapping paper of this gift wrapping option is also uniquely “handmade”: it is completely white, but decorated with children’s handprints dipped in red paint.

Textile napkin

A couple of fresh, crispy baguettes and a jar of marmalade, wrapped in a festive napkin and complemented by a wooden juicer. This is one of thousands of edible gift options for cooking lovers and true aesthetes. Try to dream up a little on this topic: instead of marmalade, put a jar of pate in a napkin, and instead of baguettes, put homemade pancakes.

You can make cute tags for original gift packaging with your own hands by cutting out small squares from thick paper and trimming their edges with curly scissors.

Kraft paper and thread

Agree, this is the best packaging for soft New Year's gifts: mittens, scarves and woolen socks. Fold two sheets of craft paper together and draw the shape of a star, sock, heart or Christmas tree on them. Cut out the shape, put the gift between the layers and machine sew it with a contrasting thread (red or gold), stepping back about 1-2 cm from the edge.

Paper scraps

Wrap the gift in white wrapping paper and place a small strip of decorative paper down the center over it. Decorate the packaging with cord and attach a small detail that will complement the gift. Place a congratulations sticker on top. Great idea for wrapping New Year's gifts!

Potatoes and paints

Take a piece of fabric so that you can easily fit the gift into it. Cut a large potato in half and carefully cut out the letter shape with a knife. Blot excess moisture with a paper towel, and apply acrylic paint to the cut out letter. Then press the “seal” onto the fabric.

Old maps

Pages from an old atlas and road maps look very stylish as homemade gift wrapping. And instead of tying a bow on top, add a quirky touch to the package: paint a leaf on a houseplant with gold spray paint, use a bright button and cord, or make a flower out of scraps of fabric.

Newspapers and twine

Edible white paper is a great background for silhouettes with Christmas symbols. Print and cut out the stencils, transfer them onto newspaper pages or brown kraft paper, and then cut out the silhouettes. Glue them to the box in several places and tie the gift with simple twine.

Pins and buckles

Another original idea for wrapping New Year's gifts. Beautiful belt buckles and hairpin details are ideal for decorating a gift box. The buckle will not only add a glamorous look to the gift, but will also secure the ribbon. So the next time you want to throw away your old belt, think about how a cute buckle can enhance your gift.

Elegant homemade products

Make your own wrapping paper using stamps and metallic inks available at hobby stores. Combine colors and patterns.

You can make your own gift boxes from colored paper (or a suitable design printed on a printer) and cardboard or cardboard with a New Year’s print already applied. Use New Year's symbols to decorate your gift - Christmas trees, snowflakes, stars, sparkles, bows and more. Then the gift wrapping will be bright and elegant.

Gift box “Snowflake”

An original detail is a snowflake on top of the gift box. Making such packaging with your own hands will not be at all difficult.

You will need:

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scissors;

glue.

Print out the box template and cut it out with scissors.

Transfer the diagram onto cardboard. Mark the fold lines indicated in the figure.

Using the back of a utility knife, draw along the fold lines - this will allow you to bend the cardboard more accurately.

Glue the corners of your box by gluing the triangle protrusions to the sides of the “snowflake”.

When the glue dries, close the finished box, placing one snowflake element on top of another.

Another version of the snowflake box

Decor ideas forDIY gift box

If the plain white color of a gift box seems boring or too plain to you, decorate the packaging with glitter. To do this, coat the snowflake with glue (a glue stick is best for this) and sprinkle generously with glitter. After 5-10 minutes, blow off any excess glitter.

Rhinestones on a sticky base are also perfect for decorating the box. Decorate the box to your liking by simply gluing rhinestones onto cardboard.

Instead of regular white cardstock, use silver or gold colored cardstock.

Template for the Christmas tree box

DIY triangular Christmas tree box

This packaging represents the main symbol of the holiday - the New Year tree - sparkling and elegant!

For such a gift box, you can not print the template on a printer, but draw it yourself using our measurements.

You will need:

decorative corrugated cardboard (green);

gift ribbon (golden);

scissors or stationery knife;

rhinestones, stars, ribbon decorations, etc. - in general, everything you can decorate a gift box with.

Draw a template on plain paper.

Transfer it to cardboard and cut it out.

Gently press the dotted lines for the fold using a thin, non-sharp object (such as a knitting needle or a non-writing pen).

Fold the sides of the box along the resulting dotted line.

Place your gift in the center and gather the edges of the box with the seams facing inward.

Once all four edges are aligned, tie the ribbon around the gift wrap as follows: For the bow, fold the ribbon in half not once, but twice, and only then tie it into a knot.

Straighten the ribbons onto the bow and attach a decoration of your choice on top. These can be red or gold beads, decorative stars, etc.

Glue star rhinestones onto the box itself or draw snowflakes with a gold marker.

DIY gift boxes: templates

For children's gifts, you can use these bright and beautiful templates. Your little one is sure to love a giant candy cane filled with their favorite sweets!