We love giving gifts and every year we make our own homemade gift wrap. We often use kraft paper or the big rolls of paper that you can get from Ikea. However this time we decided to use a large roll of black paper we had and that our homemade gift wrap would be gold stars and trees potato printed on to it.

Homemade gift wrap

I am a big fan of potato printing for any age group. As my boys are older, they can now make the potato stamps themselves.

Homemade gift wrap

How to make homemade potato print gift wrap

What you need:

A roll of drawing paper
A potato
Metal cookie cutters in a festive design – we used a stars and trees in two sizes
paint
paper plate

What you do:

Cut a potato into half and then use the cookie cutter to cut a star shape. My boys to this by placing the cookie cutter on the counter and pushing the potato over it before turning it over and removing the cookie cutter. If your children are younger then this is something you can do yourself. The boys made two sizes of star and trees.

Homemade gift wrap

Unroll the paper and cut into whatever lengths you like.

Homemade gift wrap

We like to use a paper plate for our paint. If you are using more than one colour then it helps to have a potato and plate for each colour.

Homemade gift wrap

Dip the potato and print!

Homemade gift wrap

We used gold poster paint on matt black paper and it looks amazing. But the beauty of printing your own is you can use any colour you want. Potato printing even makes new paper look beautiful.

19 thoughts on “Homemade gift wrap”

Phoebe @ Lou Messugo November 16, 2015 at 9:21 am

My sister often makes her own gift wrap and I love the extra effort she’s gone to. This is really simple and yet effective.

JuggleMum, Nadine Hill November 16, 2015 at 10:11 am

Nice idea to get wrapping paper that is truly unique.

Jennifer Howze November 16, 2015 at 10:45 am

I love homemade wrapping paper. It’s such a great way to extend the pleasure of giving gifts as well as receiving them.

Emma November 16, 2015 at 10:58 am

What a great idea Jen. I know my little girls would love to do this.

oana79 November 16, 2015 at 4:36 pm

Every time I visit your blog, Jen, I learn something new and interesting! I would have never thought of potato printing for Christmas wrapping paper, so ingenious and fun!xx

Cass@frugalfamily November 16, 2015 at 5:18 pm

Aw what a lovely idea – so pretty x

Nayna Kanabar November 16, 2015 at 8:10 pm

I love homemade wrapping paper. These look so cute and its a great way to keep kids entertained.

Mari November 16, 2015 at 9:30 pm

I remember doing potato prints as a child and loved them, these look so effective and such a great way to get the kids involved.

Mums do travel November 16, 2015 at 9:34 pm

This is such a great idea! I’d love to make some wrapping paper like this.

Sarah Bailey November 16, 2015 at 11:03 pm

I am loving your gift wrap! It looks fantastic, I might have to make some. x

Sonia November 17, 2015 at 1:49 pm

I love this idea, My friend did it last year with craft paper and red/green tree prints it looked gorgeous x

Kara November 17, 2015 at 6:37 pm

This looks like so much fun – not sure I wouldn;t be twitchy if the kids didn’t do it symetrically lol

happyhomebird November 17, 2015 at 9:41 pm

I must try some potato printing with my son, I bet he would love it. Perfect to wrap Nana’s pressie in this year x

Stacey @ The Soccer Mom Blog November 21, 2015 at 2:15 am

Love this! Very similar to the wrapping I did last year with metallic marker! I may have to try the stamping technique though 🙂

Globalmouse November 22, 2015 at 1:40 pm

I don’t know why we’ve never tried this – it looks great fun as well as so much nicer hand made.

Charly Dove November 23, 2015 at 1:47 pm

My goodness Jen you’re amazing! What a brilliant idea to make your own gift wrap and so easily too. POD would love to do this, she’d probably make such a mess but that’s part of the fun isn’t it!