How To Wrap A Gift

Hi, I’m Eric with the Zappos customer loyalty team and I’m here today to show you some holiday gift wrapping. The materials that we’re going to be using today are some heavy stock wrapping paper, a yard stick, some regular tape, and an exacto knife. First we want to have a clear area. Preferably something that’s padded or with cardboard underneath since you’re going to be doing a lot of cutting and using an exacto knife. Next you want to go ahead and roll out your wrapping paper and measure the gift that you’re going to be wrapping. I like to use a yard stick, it makes it easier for me to hold down the paper and cut at the same time. You’ll go ahead and lay you’re gift out and then you’ll proceed with the cut on the paper. Afterwards you’ll go ahead and you will start to tape the main body of the gift and you’ll go ahead and fold it over to make sure the entire box or item is covered. Now what you’ll do is you’ll trim the excess of the gift wrap. What you’ll then do is now you will fold the middle part of the excess over and you will go ahead and cut that against the wall of the side of the gift. Go ahead and use double sided tape for this if you like, a glue gun, I just use regular tape that’s found around the house. Go ahead and you tape it and you do a fold on the tape. The reason for this is so that the tape itself is not shown on the gift wrap and it’s hidden. Once you’re done with that you go ahead and fold the edges in on the side of the boxes. Afterward go ahead and fold down the flaps that you’ve created and again using that same technique, with the tape, folding down the tape, tape down those edges. A little bit of tape goes a long way, so you don’t have to use a whole role when wrapping a gift. Finally, at the end once you’ve got your wrapped gift, you want to go ahead and do what I call “edge” the side of the boxes. Edging the paper makes it look crisp and neat. And that’s how you wrap a gift. Thank you and have a happy holiday.