How to wrap/present a gift of paper ticket and make it FUN

[AppleDumpling]

For a shave club certificate, I'd wrap it with a can of shaving cream or bottle of aftershave. For the seed subscription, you could attach the paper to a nice ceramic or terracotta flower pot, or to make it a bit tricky, bury it in dirt inside the pot. Or wrap with a watering can, a small hand rake, hoe or trowel, or inside a pair of gardening gloves.

For something with a specific date, like tickets to a concert, show or sporting event, you could get a wall calendar and use bright colored markers to circle the date and write "so-and-so's concert!", for example. On the dates leading up to it, you could write a countdown in the day boxes, such as "Two months til so-and-so's concert", "One month...", "3 weeks...", "1 week...", "4 more days...almost here!", "Tomorrow!", etc.

 

[tcufrog]

A few years ago when I was Room Mom for the end of year teacher gift I had the students bring in small gift cards $10 or less each) and I used them to make gift card bouquets that looked similar to this one.

They were a big hit.

 

[barkley]

my brother once took a gift certificate and saran wrapped it (so I couldn't feel through the outer wrapping paper to figure out what it was) to a 30 POUND LEAD WEIGHT. the beautifully wrapped and bowed lead weight was put under the tree when I wasn't around so that when I caught sight of it and went to pick it up and shake it I could barely pick it up (dang slippery foil wrap). everyone went nuts trying to figure out what that gift was.

 

[lovin'fl]

DS-19 asked for money. I got him 3 things and then $100. I put the cash in a Disney flip box that they sent us a flash drive in and then wrapped it (it looks like a book). He'll think it's a book and be bummed but when he unwraps it and sees the Mickey icon he will be even more bummed...LOL.

This box with insert removed so it's hollow box.

 

[TLSnell1981]

You could always wrap tickets with something associated with the event. If the tickets are to a sporting event you could find something with the team logo, if it us to a concert you could wrap with a tour t-shirt or a cd.

This is what I usually do with tickets. The last time, that I gave the kids cash, I bought collectible cookie jars and filled them with various denominations.

 

[Donnainnj]

DS-19 asked for money. I got him 3 things and then $100. I put the cash in a Disney flip box that they sent us a flash drive in and then wrapped it (it looks like a book). He'll think it's a book and be bummed but when he unwraps it and sees the Mickey icon he will be even more bummed...LOL.

This box with insert removed so it's hollow box.

Wish I had seen this earlier. I have one of those and was looking for something to wrap my dd's Disney ap in. I used a little wooden "treasure" chest.

 

[MickeySP]

I am doing a trip with tix to a hockey game so I got a skate box from local Pure Hockey, maybe box from their local fave stores. They may think it is whatever then surprise TIX!

 

[mom2AidanAndEli]

Last year a friend of mine gave the boys gift certificates for zip lining. She didn't even wrap the paper certificates. Instead she took a gift bag and put in a little Lego minifigure, a piece of string, a paper clip bent into a hook, and a couple twigs from the Christmas tree. Then made them try to figure it out! It was hysterical watching them try to figure out why they got all these little oddball scraps of things. Took them quite a while too! Then she just gave them the certificates once they figured it out.

 

[SanderMC]

A couple of years ago I gave my sister and BIL a night out for Christmas. I turned it into 8 boxes or so to open (in order), basically each box contained a piece of paper that gave a bit of a description of what was going to happen that night. For example, I said well it's all going to start when I come over on Dec 26. Then the next box contained a babysitting certificate. The box after that said, well you've now been ticket out of your house what do you do? Following box had a gift card to go out to dinner. You kind of get the idea. So basically they had to wait until almost the end of opening gifts to find and open theirs in the order they needed to. You can come up with any sort of story and use all different size boxes or containers.