Wrap your gifts like a professional, whatever shape.
Have a bike, violin, or basketball on your holiday shopping list?
Wrapping these oddly shaped gifts is easier than you might think once you learn a few gift-wrapping tricks.
Jamie Chung
With these fun gift-wrapping hacks, opening the present makes getting a gift even more delightful.
Roll a 24-by-36-inch piece of poster board into a cylinder, securing it with duct tape.
Cover with a sheet ofwrapping paper, adhering it with double-stick tape.
Jamie Chung
On each end, tape crepe paper about 3 inches in.
Slip in the gift, gather the paper at each end, and cinch with aribbon bow.
Make a Sampler
Want a more personal way to give money?
Jamie Chung
Arrange the cash like an assortment of sweets in a tissue paperlined plain white box.
Sprinkle in a few random trinketscandy canes, mini tree, reindeer figurinefor even more surprise and delight.
Enter crepe-paper streamers, which, like an elastic bandage, have the flexibility to conform to any form.
Jamie Chung
Start anywhere and overlap the layers until your gift is covered, then secure with clear tape.
Because the wrap is clingy, it’ll stick to all the odd edges, corners, and angles.
Cover the entire exterior, securing the cords with standard twist ties, ribbon, or fishing line.
Don’t worry which way the bulbs pointthe haphazardness is part of what makes it feel so festive.
