Leftover Gift-Wrap Ideas

Reuse your silver and gold wrapping paper for your next party! Gold wrapping paper would look beautiful as a metallic tray liner.

Cut wrap into triangles, stick them to seam binding, and display for your New Year's shindig.

Wrap recycled tin cans to store pencils, pens, and scissors.

Here's a thought: Even smaller scraps of wrapping paper can be reused! Put them through a shredder to create packaging paper for shipping your gifts to friends and family.

These lovely notebooks are a fun activity for the whole family and a great way to recycle holiday paper, which can make a big difference for the environment.

No need to buy bookmarks when you can just use leftover gift wrap to create your own! Cut a rectangle from an old cereal box and glue on the wrap.

Similarly, why not use the same idea for covering books? This protects them through the winter weather and cold, through the spring. 

Taking a bottle of bubby to a New Year's party? Dress it up in your prettiest holiday paper.

Make decorative box labels and color-code them by subject.

Your favorite wrapping can have new life as a party hat. Perfect for post-Christmas birthday celebration or New Year's Eve bash.

Too pretty to recycle? Hang it on the wall for a graphic touch.

Hosting a dinner party? Cut strips and wrap around your reusable flatware for your next soiree.

Make a card from your leftover paper to show your appreciation.

Looking to get a new start in the new year? Get organized using a wall of clipboards. We used decorative paper (you can use wrapping paper, wallpaper, or samples) to brighten basic clipboards.

Decorate your table using wrapping paper as a table runner. You can wrap the party favors in the same or similar wrapping paper and place them on the plates.

Iron it on low, roll back on the tube, and use it again next year.