I'm ok with easy shapes. I hate wrapping bottles though, they always look a mess.
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I really like Ruby's idea!
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ November 11 2008, 4:18 PM GMTI am a rubbish wrapper. I tend to get flustered. If you want to cheat and impress people at the same time, a trick I use is to get a gift box or bag and sprinkle some christmas confetti inside and tie onto the ribbon or handle with with ribbon a candy cane or lollipop into the bow.
This may help you Ellie with the nine year old. A trick I use for kids is based on the idea of pass the parcel.
You will need a toy, lots of sweets, christmas confetti, wrapping paper, brown paper, ribbon, christmas stamp and other craft bits (optional), and a large candy cane of lollipop.
I get a cheap toy like a teddy or a doll, and I wrap it. Then I place the parcel on another sheet of wrapping paper thats different and include one of the sweets and sprinkle a bit of the confetti so when the paper opens it spills out. I wrap it again and repeat. The last bit I wrap, I wrap with brown paper and tie with ribbon with the candy cane and lollipop. I sometimes make up a little stamp as if it's come from the north pole and I explain on the tag that the parcel is magic and all you have to do is eat the sweet on Christmas eve while making a wish for the new year and the next day, if you have been good, you will get a surprise! Kids love seening the first layer of paper under the boring brown, then they exploded as they find they have to unwrap more and more. They get an exciting 5 minutes and you save money!
Of course the only downside is the tidying up!
It's an awesome idea... but pretty much useless unless it's a killer zombie toy underneath the paper he won't care.
Killer zombie it is!
You can buy liquid latex, why not paint your presents with it?
Quote: Nil Putters @ November 11 2008, 4:18 PM GMTI'm ok with easy shapes. I hate wrapping bottles though, they always look a mess.
Get a cheapo flower pot and make a long paper cone out of some green wrapping paper. If you want, find some stick on gems or stars. Put the bottle in the pot and put the cone over the top. Hey Presto, a bottle christmas tree!
Quote: EllieJP @ November 11 2008, 4:21 PM GMTIt's an awesome idea... but pretty much useless unless it's a killer zombie toy underneath the paper he won't care.
Then surprise him and put a lump of coal in there.
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ November 11 2008, 4:22 PM GMTGet a cheapo flower pot and make a long paper cone out of some green wrapping paper. If you want, find some stick on gems or stars. Put the bottle in the pot and put the cone over the top. Hey Presto, a bottle christmas tree!
Brilliant. You should be on Blue Peter or summut!
Ruby, you're a wrapping demon! 
Quote: Nil Putters @ November 11 2008, 4:23 PM GMTBrilliant. You should be on Blue Peter or summut!
And that. 
I am the Crimbo Queen.
Quote: Ben @ November 11 2008, 4:02 PM GMTDoes anyone know an easy way to wrap presents? I'm terrible at it.
'Yo, yo, yo. I'm represent, I'm represent, I'm all present and I'm all correct. I'm a gift, bee-atch, I'm a present and I'm presenting to you, ho, ho, ho's.'
Sorry WL, got carried away a bit there.
Quote: EllieJP @ November 11 2008, 4:03 PM GMTI actually hate Christmas and everything commercial it represents
Same here, and also for personal reasons. When I posted last year that I was buying goats and chickens for projects abroad I upset another member who doesn't believe in that sort of thing - cruelty to animals or something. I know people who regularly visit and oversee these projects so I am happy to do it again. I'm also supporting projects in this country.
I do shoeboxes every year. Yet again I am surrounded by them!
http://www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk/?q=pages/watch-video
Quote: Loopey @ November 11 2008, 4:44 PM GMTSame here, and also for personal reasons. When I posted last year that I was buying goats and chickens for projects abroad I upset another member who doesn't believe in that sort of thing - cruelty to animals or something. I know people who regularly visit and oversee these projects so I am happy to do it again. I'm also supporting projects in this country.
Well I must admit, I was a little wary about it. But I've done lots of reading and now think it would be a pretty nice thing to do. It's not like the goat gets put under a Christmas tree all wrapped up!
Quote: Loopey @ November 11 2008, 4:44 PM GMTWhen I posted last year that I was buying goats and chickens for projects abroad I upset another member who doesn't believe in that sort of thing - cruelty to animals or something.
I wonder who that could have been...
The worst present I ever got was when I was about eleven. It was a robot that could sort of (but not really) draw if you stuck a little pencil in its base. It was rubbish.
The best was when I got a Commodore 64, I thought that was great at the time.