Cupcake Liner Ornaments Homemade Christmas Wrapping Paper

Forget buying expensive gift wrap! This DIY Christmas wrapping paper is made entirely with things found in your kitchen!

Easy homemade Christmas wrapping paper made with cupcake liners and recycled materials.

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Cupcake Liner Ornaments Homemade Christmas Wrapping Paper

Looking through one of our kitchen drawers this week I found these adorable cupcake liners. I showed them to my husband who scoffed, “They’re terrible for baking!” (He’s all about the reusable silicone cupcake liners he got as a birthday gift from a certain thoughtful wife!)

Well, these striped paper cupcake liners were just too cute to toss, and I pretty quickly came up with the idea to use them to decorate Christmas wrapping paper. Carrying on with the recycling theme, I rounded up some paper shopping bags that would serve well as the actual gift wrap.

Related: Click here to see a HUGE collection of over 100 Easy Christmas Crafts for Kids!

Supplies needed for this homemade holiday ornament Christmas wrapping paper:

This upcycled wrapping paper can be made entirely with things found in your kitchen! An easy, fun DIY that's perfect to do with kids! Plus it's "greener!"

How to make this fun and “green” Christmas wrapping paper:

Unfold the bottom of the shopping bag and cut along one side to form a flat sheet of paper.

This upcycled wrapping paper can be made entirely with things found in your kitchen! An easy, fun DIY that's perfect to do with kids! Plus it's "greener!"

Trim to fit your box and wrap as you normally would.

This upcycled wrapping paper can be made entirely with things found in your kitchen! An easy, fun DIY that's perfect to do with kids! Plus it's "greener!"

Press individual cupcake liners flat and coat the bottom with glue. (Glue sticks would probably be easiest, but strangely I couldn’t find any at the time, so I used craft glue and that was fine too.) Attach to paper and allow to dry.

(I found this awesome assortment of rainbow and metallic cupcake liners that would be perfect for this project if you don’t have any at home.)

This upcycled wrapping paper can be made entirely with things found in your kitchen! An easy, fun DIY that's perfect to do with kids! Plus it's "greener!"

Using a metallic marker and a black sharpie, I added details to make them look like Christmas ornaments.

This upcycled wrapping paper can be made entirely with things found in your kitchen! An easy, fun DIY that's perfect to do with kids! Plus it's "greener!"

Four steps — simple as that! It’s an easy project that you can do with the kids, plus you can feel good about reducing your paper waste. With this up-cycled Christmas wrapping paper, I now have another fun and unique way to wrap my gifts this year. Now if only the holidays would get here faster!!

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Easy homemade Christmas wrapping paper made with cupcake liners and recycled materials.

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This upcycled wrapping paper can be made entirely with things found in your kitchen! An easy and "green" Christmas DIY craft that's perfect to do with kids!

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