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Once the hustle-and-bustle of holiday shopping is over, it's time to wrap those carefully chosen gifts. Of course, no matter how much time you spend wrapping, some items are more difficult to disguise than others. Here are a few predictable or difficult-to-wrap gift items, with suggestions from Ellen Timberlake, the 2000 winner of the Scotch® Brand Most Gifted Wrapper™ Contest, on how you can preserve the element of surprise for the recipient.
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 Golf Club: Take a piece of six-inch thick dryer vent (available at the local hardware store) and stretch it to the length of the golf club. Insert the club into the dryer vent, then bend the vent into a candy cane shape. Fill the empty space inside the vent around the club with old newspaper. Wrap the vent with several layers of white tissue paper. Secure the tissue paper to the dryer vent with Scotch® pop-up giftwrap tape strips. Wind red ribbon around the "cane" to make the stripes. Finish off by wrapping the entire "candy cane" with cellophane or a self-clinging plastic wrap. |
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 Earrings or necklace: Place the jewelry in a small box. Wad newspaper in a ball around the gift box until it's about the size of a softball. Cut several strips of wrapping paper about one-inch wide, and adhere them to the ball of newspaper until it's completely covered. Stuff the "ball" into a sleeve of plastic mesh, and tie both ends of the mesh together with curling ribbon. Add a bow to the top, and hang the ornament on the tree using a hook. |
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Gift certificates: Hide a gift certificate in an item that wouldn't ordinarily be considered a gift, then wrap it as beautifully as you can. Who wouldn't be surprised to unwrap the prettiest gift under the tree and discover that you've given them a brick, a phone book, or a box of cereal? Of course, they'll be surprised and thrilled when they uncover the hidden gift certificate! |
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Bicycle: Everyone knows how grueling it can be to assemble a bicycle – let alone trying to wrap one! Instead of wasting precious time attempting to disguise this hard-to-wrap object with yards and yards of paper, wrap a miniature bicycle in a small box. In the small box, include a short poem containing clues that will lead the recipient to the garage or spare bedroom where you've hidden the real bicycle! |
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Perfume or cologne: Buy the cutest stuffed animal you can find, and dress it in a baby outfit or article of doll's clothing that has a pocket. Tuck the bottle of perfume into the pocket and wrap the stuffed animal as usual. |
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