Gift Wrapping Night

Have the girls over for a gift wrapping night this week.  Tell everybody to bring over all their unwrapped gifts for a wrapping extravaganza.   Whether you're gathered around your dining room table or you're sitting on pillows on your kitchen floor, it will be fun chatting with your friends over a job that is usually solitary.  Provide plenty of scissors, tape, ribbons, and interesting gift-toppers. 

Ask your friends to bring their favorite wrap and/or any spare rolls to share.  Pick up a few extra rolls, just in case there are some big gifts that need lots of paper.  You also could save this Sunday's comic page from the newspaper for some good ol' fashion "funny" wrap job.  Plain butcher paper can be decorated with stickers or stamps, if you'd like to get really creative.  Also, colored foil is a really stunning wrapping paper. 

Take a walk through your nearest craft store and your bound to find some interesting items to share with your guests.  You could also gather some beautiful leaves, pine cones, or small pine tree branch pieces.  You'll have so much fun that you'll soon make this a yearly tradition.