Felt bags instead of wrapping paper, anyone?
How about bags mde from old t-shirts, and embellished with felt?
Not a gift under the tree wrapped in paper! My handy husband Bill sewed up some felt bags, and I tucked in our gifts and tied them up with ribbon.
This gift (k-cups for Bill) came in this brown bag, so I just prettied it up with a ribbon.
Bill and I didn't want to buy anything special for this project, so some of our bags are yellow felt, as opposed to more "christmassy" colors. I didn't mind one bit. :)
I even grabbed some scraps of fabric for some gifts, and wrapped them up!
Stockings are filled by Santa at our house, and of course, those gifts are "wrapped" by the stocking, so no need for anything else!
Santa left some gifts unwrapped, like our coffee maker, and Kenna's CitiBlocks. He even played around with them and built a tower!
After gifts were open, I folded all of the bags, tucked them and all the ribbon into one of the largest bags, and, well... that was it! Wrapping with fabric was fun and easy, and so good for the environment. Next year we are going to try and have a completely handmade Christmas (only some items were handmade this year, but they were the favorite gifts!). We did have a plastic-free Christmas, though. I should take pictures of all of the amazing wooden gifts the kids got. No promises...
