Inspired by Pepper's showcase of her very creative wrappers here and as a catch up on our Arts-N-Crafts activities as well, let me just share with you a few samples of the gifts we've recently given away (mostly to the kid's classmates) which we wrapped using recycled materials. I hope you have not jumped over Pepper's site yet as these are not in that caliber. But I wanted to publish this post, in the hopes that many would take inspiration and consider more creative ways of reusing household trash to help save the environment. It's a tiny step but at least YOU are making one.
Most of these are recycled paper bags from National Bookstore (reversed). I keep a boxful of used japanese/tissue paper, ribbons from cakes and gifts (and some from our past runs too, low budget fun runs would usually just use ribbons as a mark that you already went past a turnaround point), used giftwrappers, used yarns, fuzzy wires, boxes, cardboards, stickers and other what-nots that my husband would otherwise refer to as GARBAGE.
Necessity as they say is the mother of invention. And this reusing thing was really borne out of necessity at first. And mainly because since the kid started preschool we had to prepare gifts once or twice a month and there were times that I'd really forgot to buy giftwrappers. I already saved myself some time by stocking up on Adarna/Tahanan/Lampara books (and lately some workbooks that were also printed using recycled paper) so I thought why not save me some money and help out too by reusing the brown paper bags. And that started our recycled gift wrapping adventures and my primary mission here is to expose the kid to the idea of reduce, reuse and recycle (and somehow she understands now that paper comes from trees so we should make good use of them).
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| This was a gift for a classmate who had a Hello Kitty-themed class party. I told the kid this was patterned after Hello Kitty's ribbon and she giggled (apparently she agrees). The flower cut out from an old glass coaster that I had left over from the flash card reviewers that I made for her when she was still learning to write numbers. |
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| Since the daughter likes to scribble and doodle, I thought it would be fun to let her draw on the wrappers. The one at the bottom was my silly attempt to make girly designs. Which of these two look better to you? |
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| blue balls for a boy birthday celebrant |
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| I first posted these here |
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| old manila paper and used cartolina from our previous art activities |
2 comments:
This is brilliant Faye! The most Laz and I do is to decorate the birthday cards we stick on the gifts. But crazy noh, all these pre-school birthday parties. I bought gifts in bulk too -and wrappers! But making wrappers with the kiddo seems like a more fun idea!
Anna
Awww... Thank you for the compliment Faye! Yours is full of sweet kiddie touches! So fun! Good job Maia! =)
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