Just giving gifts is banal and boring, although pleasant. It is much more interesting to arrange a whole show out of this, a New Year's attraction to give people and even yourself pleasure. Fortunately, there are non-trivial ways to do this.

Hello! Since we are meeting with you on these pages, then, I suspect, the New Year is already knocking on the door - the favorite holiday of everyone and everyone, young and old.

And if for the smallest people, by and large, gifts play the main role, although, to be honest, modern children are so advanced that they can safely give odds to their parents, then for older people, adults and the oldest, the form of presenting New Year's presents is of no small importance.

Yes, it’s a sin to hide: it’s nice to give a present with an invention, seeing the surprise and joy on the faces of those who are presented!

That is why we decided to suggest, advise you, our dear guest, reader, a few ideas on how to give a gift for the New Year in an original way, whether to children, friends or colleagues, and your halves.

Idea No. 1 Proven by time

There is one universal option to all our conditional groups - Santa Claus. Agree that even at a New Year's corporate party, where the entire staff consists of adults and serious uncles and aunts, when the fun reaches a certain degree, Grandfather and the Snow Maiden will cause great delight.

And the whole team will shout in chorus “Christmas tree, light up”, accepting with joy the most primitive gifts from the bag.

The same thing, you see, will happen in a friendly circle, and the age of the company can vary from 21 to 80 years old - the New Year's mood and the amount of alcohol you drink will ensure the success of a couple of characters familiar to everyone.

Nevertheless, let's agree that, firstly, it is banal, and secondly, the vast majority of the celebrations of this wonderful event already imply the presence of Grandfather Frost and his Granddaughter.

Idea number 2 for the lazy

But with modern children it is more difficult. If you really want to bring joy and unforgettable feelings to your child, then Santa Claus is hardly suitable for presenting the gifts you have prepared. Well, perhaps the smallest, still quite foolish.

Although, to be honest, companies that provide such services are trying to keep up with the times, and you may be able to meet really creative animators.

What you definitely shouldn’t do is dress up as Santa Claus yourself. More than sure: your masquerade will be revealed, and the whole surprise will fail.

It’s better to ask a neighbor at some point just to ring the doorbell and hide, leaving gifts with parting cards on the threshold. And yourself, referring to anything, send your beloved child to open the door.

But believe me, there are many more interesting options!

Idea number 3 Arrange a quest

Why not have a real adventure? Where is your spirit of adventure? After all, such a gift giving will cause a storm positive emotions not only for children, but also for adults.

Moreover, given that, as a rule, colleagues are given purely symbolic gifts, and many friends, by the way, too, then it is on the delivery that their attention should be focused.

So let's get started. A simpler option is to prepare in advance 10-15, no more, notes, all except the first, which must be securely hidden in advance in different places of the room, where, in fact, you will have fun on a magical night.

What's in the notes? Starting with the first - tips on how to find each next. The form of clues is up to your choice: from the simplest riddles to quatrains in the style of Nostradamus.

The first must be left somewhere so that it catches your eye, for example, under the tree. The latter should eventually lead to the goal - a gift. Such a collective quest is guaranteed to be appreciated.

Idea #4 Treasure hunt

The second option will require more serious preparation. By the way, it can also have a different shape, but the most widely spread is the search for pirate treasures.

You will need a pirate costume and a map, and the more intricate it is, the more interesting.

Just do not overdo it - you still have to read it. Fill it with riddles, phantoms and anything that will be interesting for your company.

Speaking of fans. In the company of friends or with colleagues, it will be quite fun to give gifts after, at random, everyone will get their phantom out of the box, fulfill it, and only after receiving a New Year's present.

Idea #5 Sea battle

There are options that are great for giving gifts to both children and your beloved boyfriend, and even your husband, because, you see, there are things that every man has carried through the years since childhood, which is why, sometimes, men are considered big children. What's this? For example, a game of war games!

How to arrange everything? Let's move to the bathroom, taking with us floating toys, letters written on paper, from which you need to make a word or phrase-hint about the location of the gift, scotch tape and a water gun.

So, cut out the letters and glue them to the bottom of the toys. By the way, boats are perfect - arrange a sea battle. Glue so that during the sailing the letters do not get wet and remain readable.

Give your son or brother a pistol and let him shoot at the armada, trying to turn the ship over with a jet of water and thereby get to the letter. When the flotilla is overthrown, let him make a hint and gladly get to the gift.

Idea #6 Not for the faint of heart

Another great option for the stronger sex, only it is definitely not suitable for a child. Suitable if the gift is miniature: cufflinks, tie clip, etc.

It means this: you take a gift, put it in a sock, and you already pack it in as many layers of gift paper as you have enough patience.

In any way, you hand it over and enjoy watching the efforts of your betrothed to unpack, and then his perplexed face with a sock in his hands, because it’s not immediately possible to feel a small accessory in such a “package”.

Idea number 7 For the patient

By the way, next original version gift giving will allow men to recoup layers of paper and socks. Do you want to give a gift to your girlfriend or wife, tickling her nerves?

Then pay attention: try to find out in advance what your missus would like to receive most of all for the New Year, and what she certainly does not need at all.

Buy both options. At the most crucial moment, give her something that she does not need at all - let it be some kind of trifle. Watch how your lady smiles and thanks you in a playful way, expecting a more significant present.

It depends on your endurance - how much you can torment your beloved. You can generally bring it to the belief that this is where the New Year's magic ended.

And then, at the most unexpected moment for her, hand over what she dreamed of and what she asked for from Santa Claus.

Idea #8 Romantic

By the way, for the halves living together, the option with notes is also ideal, turning New Year's greetings in the game of two lovers hearts.

Yes, and a halo of romance, with candles and other attributes of this action just for two, believe me, every girl or woman will like it, and such a night will be remembered really by magic.

Idea No. 9 From packaging to traditions

Whichever of the options for giving New Year's gifts you choose, from the most original to simple delivery, pay due attention to the packaging. By the way, in America it is customary to believe that it is she who plays more important than the present itself.

We are not Americans, and thank God, but a beautifully sealed gift, in characteristic paper, Christmas flowers and motives, it will always look much more profitable than even an expensive present, presented in such a way, “in what the mother gave birth.”

And about new year traditions don't forget! In the family circle, some of the gifts, even if they are just sweets or other sweets, put under the Christmas tree.

Yes, and hang socks signed for each family member over the fireplace, if there is one, or in any other suitable place filling them with the same goodies will be great!

In this way New Year mood will triumph in your home. I don’t know about you, but to the sound of the chimes, I have an irresistible desire to look under the Christmas tree: what if, as in childhood, gifts are waiting for me there.

Happy New Year!

Give happiness and smiles to loved ones! Let your children feel the magic of this holiday, because with age the fairy tale in their life will end. And at least one night a year, give it to yourself and those you love.

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Animals and dolls

How to make a rabbit with your own hands

The Christmas tree was dressed up, the interior was decorated, it remains only to festively arrange numerous bundles, boxes and packages with gifts to relatives and not so relatives, friends and loved ones.

You can, of course, get off with traditional wrapping paper with decorative ribbon bows. But, you see, it's boring and no one will remember. Using imagination and at first glance unexpected improvised means, you can make a unique and very personal design for the packaging of a New Year or Christmas gift.

We offer some simple tips on how to wrap a gift beautifully and unusually.

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1. Cones and fir branches. What could be more relevant and simpler.

2. And the more the better.

3. Any child will be happy to make such a drawing on wrapping paper: take a pencil with an eraser at the end and white paint, dip the eraser into the paint and dot any drawing.

4. You can make paper cones with your own hands.

5. Or a 3D paper Christmas tree.

6. Fabric gift bag

7. Blackboard effect paint will add a touch of flair to any package. You can sign the package with white chalk.

8. Use beads or crystals to add sparkle and holiday sparkle.

9. An old flannel shirt can make a chic bow.

10. The rope is made from cocktail tubes.

11. As a festive bow, you can use any of the most unexpected materials. For example, cinnamon sticks.

12. And even a cookie. Why not?

13. Even a child can draw such a garland.

14. Postal wrapping and a simple drawing - and in front of you is a vintage package

15. Confetti on a string will make any package festive.

16. Instead of traditional bows, you can make initials from wire wrapped in multi-colored threads.

17. Or attach a toy Christmas tree.

18. Stylish minimalism for those who appreciate simplicity and conciseness

19. Pixel Weave

20. Scraps of wrapping paper can also come in handy.

21. Vintage Christmas decorations handmade

22. It is not necessary to spend money on wrapping paper and decorations. A nice bundle can be made from the remnants of wallpaper, rope and bunches of mountain ash under your window.

The New Year is a holiday of magic, and we so want it to be surrounded by beauty, freshness, and joyful emotions. Christmas trees are decorated in houses, garlands are hung, but special attention is paid to New Year's gifts. In order to especially please relatives and friends, you want not only to give something pleasant and necessary, but also to decorate the gift in an original way, adding a little more magic to the holiday.

Packages

The easiest way to pack is to put a gift in a plain paper bag and then decorate it with ribbons or rain. The contents can be pre-wrapped in shiny gold or silver foil.

Stylization

If you show a little imagination, then even the simplest package can be turned, for example, into a cute deer. boring cardboard box easy to diversify if you style it, for example, under a parcel sent by airmail.

Tissue packaging

You can wrap gifts with a piece of cloth and decorate.

One of the options for packaging for New Year's gifts is bright fabric bags tied with ribbons and decorated with cute details. You can also wrap gifts with a piece of cloth and decorate.

bright paper

A win-win option for creating beautiful gift wrapping is bright paper with a cute print - both New Year's themed and just beautiful. Such a wrapper is good in itself and does not require lush decorations, so it is quite enough to tie a gift with a matching ribbon or a rough rope.

Newsprint and music paper

Despite its simplicity, both newsprint and even music paper as packaging look very stylish and original. So that such a gift does not look too boring, you can supplement it with small details - tie it with a ribbon or rope, add a label or appliqué.

Ribbons

By the way, about ribbons: the simpler the paper in which the gift is wrapped, the more complex and creative decoration can be.

And if combined with colorful and even newsprint it is better to choose calmer options, then when using simple craft paper or brown cardboard, you can not limit yourself.

Ribbons can be wide and narrow, muted and bright colors, plain and patterned, solemn satin or careless fabric. The imitation of ribbons with the help of multi-colored woolen threads or a newspaper strip gathered on a thread looks very original.

Applications

Application is able to refresh any gift.

Application is able to refresh any gift. If it is packed in plain paper and you want to add a little color and mood to it, you can stick a piece of bright paper or fabric with a pattern on top. It would be nice if the drawing reflected the character of the person to whom this gift is intended.

More difficult option applications - figures cut out of paper. By the way, you can decorate with stickers not only plain packaging, but also colored ones, but in this case it is better to choose one-color parts of a simple shape.

paper decorations

One of the appliqué options is to decorate the packaging with the help of decorations cut out of paper. It can be bows, and hanging figures, and snowflakes, and even whole garlands of paper balls.

Snowflakes

By the way, snowflakes can be not only cut out of paper, but also printed on the wrapper, and even in the form crochet napkins. Yes, and you can fix them on the box in a variety of ways.

Labels

Cardboard tags in the form of Christmas toys or just figurines look very cute on gifts. Usually they are attached to a knot, on which a ribbon or lace is tied.

personalized gifts

Another original way indicate the addressee - attach photos to the boxes.

Cardboard tags can be used to indicate the name or initials of the recipient of the gift. Another original way to indicate the addressee is to attach photographs to the boxes, then your close person it will be easy to find your gift under the tree.

Stitched toys

Curly labels and toys can be not only paper, but also sewn from fabric - cotton, felt, fur. Decorative stitching will decorate them.

figurines

As decoration for gift box small figurines, tiny Christmas decorations or even balls attached to a ribbon will look great.

It is important that these parts fit your package and do not overload it.

pom poms

Instead of fragile Christmas balls the gift can be decorated with soft and cozy pompoms made of woolen threads, which can be combined with other decorations in an original way.

Buttons

The packaging decorated with buttons looks advantageous, especially since the variety of their colors, shapes and sizes is so great that it allows you to make the most unthinkable compositions and embody any fantasy.

spruce twigs

What is the New Year without a Christmas tree! Small twigs and cones will be a great themed decor for a gift. They can be combined with other elements - ribbons, labels, appliqué and Christmas tree decorations.

By the way, instead of spruce twigs, branches of thuja and holly will be quite appropriate.

Drawings and stamps

You can use markers, felt-tip pens, pencils, paints, glitters.

Perhaps the most creative way to decorate a gift is to draw something on the wrapper with your own hands. It can be a thematic New Year's story, or something related to your loved one, to whom you will give a gift. You can use markers, felt-tip pens, pencils, paints, glitters.

One of the variations of the pattern is stamps, which are very relevant now. You can buy them at the store or make your own from an eraser using a breadboard knife. The image can be supplemented with inscriptions with wishes, initial letters or simple decor.

Whatever method of decoration you choose, do not forget that your gift may still need to be delivered to the addressee, which means that its details should not be too fragile. Try to ensure that not only the gift itself, but also its appearance in style and spirit corresponded to the one to whom you will give it.