Fancy ideas for fun

When wrapping gifts with a theme there are opportunities galore to experiment and work on technique. Wrapping in the circus theme suggest lots of ideas and using cut paper is very appropriate for this. Here’s a suggestion: have one large central figure, a clown, for example, cut from colored craft paper and even snips of magazines. Make it exaggerated in style and brightly colored, with big red nose, blue hair and baggy pants, all that stuff. Then add secondary elements - using the paper doll style cut several small strings of elephants marching trunk to tail. Keep your design simple for easy cutting.

Stamping and stenciling will be very nice for this. You can be real creative and combine techniques. If you were doing circus trains instead of elephants you could stamp the cars with animal shapes. If doing more than one package carry this theme over. The wonderful thing about all this is it takes very little in tools and materials and results are a gift wrapped with a personal expression that says so much.