Gift Wrapping Trick

[Bastiansmom]

We wrap and put the presents under the tree as we get them (except for Santa stuff), so I try to "disquise" the presents so my son can't tell what they are. This usually involves putting EVERYTHING in a gift box, and sometimes wrapping a small toy and clothes together or throwing a fee pieces of hard candy in the box so it makes a lot of noise. He is getting a few DVDs and video games this year and I have been wrapping them in gift boxes so they can't be identified (the size and shape of a DVD box is very obvious).

Anyway, I figured out this weekend that a DVD box is the same size as a box of Peeps! My son loves Peeps so I bought some for his stocking, but instead I wrapped the Peeps with the DVD so now he won't be able to tell what it is, AND I get to save gift boxes. Two presents in one!

Does anyone else have any similar ideas?

Thanks!

 

[MNdisneymom]

I love doing this, especially to my DS (6.5) who loves to shake presents...If it's a "quiet" gift (like a book or DVD) I put it in a shoebox with a little baggie of change, nuts and bolts from a tool box, or anything that will make noise. For the reverse, like a puzzle or whatever, I will do anything to muffle it--just this morning, I opened a box of Legos, stuffed some packing peanuts in it, and taped it up before I wrapped it. Bingo, no noise at all! The best fun of all is when he opens the packages and can't believe what it is ... (and we {he} spend a lot of time in front of the tree shaking and guessing)

Now for my dad (the old stick in the mud, but we love him anyway)who refuses to even touch a present before Christmas Eve (that's when we do gifts) I don't bother. There wouldn't be any point!

 

[StephMK]

Ha, I never thought to add noise! Great idea! I disguise wrap stuff too but use our recycling boxes for that. Cereal boxes are great, pop tarts, granola bars - anything is fair game! DH is getting a DVD inside a frozen pizza box (the pizza was sealed inside so no crumbs), wrapped up. Takes more wrapping paper but more fun to surprise!

 

[abcboys]

Yes, I did the same thing this year. I got my boys a DSi to share and I put it in a big box with lots of books and magazines from around the house and it makes the box very heavy.

I also got my son a pair of Cardinals crocs that he was dying to get and I bagged up some of his legos and put them in with the shoes to trick him.

 

[a1tinkfans]

SImilar thought ..............

I like to make my ds "look" for the gifts sometimes..........so we'll put a box with a "clue" in it and the search begins............

 

[verge1116]

DH is getting a DVD inside a frozen pizza box (the pizza was sealed inside so no crumbs), wrapped up. Takes more wrapping paper but more fun to surprise!

My DH is getting the exact same gift in the same box! He'll never guess!

 

[Mickeypooh99]

I got my son a pin from our recent disney trip. I wrapped it in a sample cereal box. He opened it up and had the funniest look on his face and said "I got CEREAL for my birthday???" He tossed it aside and wasn't even going to look inside.

 

[patchchild]

We've wrapped one up with a cord sticking out and plugged it in. Just an old adaptor plug, but it was funny and left everyone really curious about needed to stay plugged in for a week.

 

[stacy6552]

Wrapping stuffed animals and other soft/shapless things:

Take your wrapping paper and cut to aprox size.
Fold paper in half but with the seem down the middle, 2 edges into middle. tape.
Fold the bottom edge up (I like to do it twice) and tape.
Now you basically have a bag to drop the item into. drop.
Fold the open edge over (again I like this twice) and tape.

Tah-dah!

 

[sunnyday123]

Stopping at the table in the mall to do it for me??


I HATE wrapping presents-any, and am terrible at it to boot. It could have something to do with the fact that I''m that person doing it till 3 am on Christmas Eve, but I still hate it.

 

[here757]

LOL good ideas

this year i got my son two wii games.

i put them in a clothing box with paper crumpled around them. and taped it closed.. LOL he hates getting clothes and always leaves them for last.

hes only 6

 

[jmartinez1895]

I have 3 kids ( 10,8 and 5) and each of them will be getting a roll of toilet paper taht has been wraped up. I'm going to slip a $5 inside each tube, but the look an thier faces when they open TP should be very funny. We always try and give them somethign totally dumb and unexpected just for laughs.

 

[KibbyCat]

My brother used to always do crazy things like this with my gifts when we were younger. One of my favorites: he got me a CD of my favorite artist I'd been wanting. Knowing I'd know exactly what it was from the size/shape, he got an old hardcover book and, using a sharp exacto knife, cut a square shape into the pages about halfway down. He left the covers intact so that it still looked like a book. Then he shoved the CD into the hole.

Another of my favorites: he took an old coffee can and punctured little holes into it. from the holes, he threaded lots of rubber bands. Put a CD dangling from the rubber bands in the middle of the can and placed the lid on. Rubber bands held the CD in the middle of the can so that, when shaken, you couldn't tell that anything was inside.