He loved it and Luke and I loved watching him work through the clues. Last year, we set up a Christmas scavenger hunt for Greyson and it was a HUGE hit. You usually won’t find the presents under our tree to be matching because I tend to use whatever leftover gift bags and paper that I have on hand but, occasionally, I’ll bring out a creative idea like this Christmas present tower. Check out that post on how to trim your Christmas packages if you want more inspiration. You aren’t going to find me crafting for hours but I do really enjoy the happiness that small DIY projects can bring.Ī few years ago, I used scrap fabric and photo ornaments on presents and that was such a cute way to gift little ornaments to Grandparents. I like to be creative when it comes to holidays and celebrations but I don’t like to do anything that takes too much time. Use a utility knife to cut into the sides of the snowman’s body to make a hole so that twig arms can sit in.Tie scarf around the head and body boxes of the present tower.Roll orange construction paper to make a nose.Use a marker to draw the eyes, mouth, eyebrows and buttons on the present tower.Wrap the two boxes that will make the snowman’s hat in the wrapping paper of your choice.Wrap the three main boxes of the snowman’s body in white.Collect your boxes and place gifts inside boxes.I think the hardest part of building the present tower would be finding boxes that would work for the components of the snowman stacking gift boxes if you didn’t have saved boxes to choose from.Įither way, you can do this cute gift wrapping idea. If you are like me and have multiple sizes of cardboard boxes on hand, this project will be pretty simple for you. I tend to save shipping boxes to reuse anyways. It honestly wasn’t too hard to wrap gifts up to make the present tower. Instead, I decided to make a Christmas present tower, A.K.A. Sifting through values and meaning on traditions can be so difficult.Īnyways, for me, to make the four presents seem a bit more special, I decided to not display the gifts under the Christmas tree. I’ve been conditioned through my childhood Christmases (a mountain of Christmas presents) and through marketing in the US to believe that four gifts isn’t that much. Logically, I know that four gifts is plenty and that a ton of families don’t or can’t do that. The gifts fell into the categories: something you want, something you need, something to wear and something to read. A few years ago, we started doing a total of four gifts for Christmas.
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