No matter how much I plan and no matter how many bows I buy for gift wrapping at Christmas, there are always some straggler gifts needing bows that I don’t have enough for. That exact thing happened to me yesterday, so I scoured Youtube looking for an answer to my dilemma and I found this brilliant Youtube tutorial that showed exactly how to make a bow from wrapping paper. It was so perfect for my problem because wrapping paper was the one thing I always have plenty of because I buy it on sale after Christmas for pennies on the dollar at Dollar Tree, Hobby Lobby, or Michael’s Craft Store. So I got started by cutting a 12″ long, 4″ wide piece of wrapping paper and folded it in half and cut out a sort of fish shape as seen here.

Then I unfolded it and at that point, it looks kind of like a pair of glasses, then you cut small notches on alternating sides to interlock the bow.

Then you just lock the notches together pinch in the middle and you have a gorgeous bow!

These bows are so beautiful, they went far beyond my expectations. In fact, my kids came downstairs and saw me making these bows and just stood there watching, they were so intrigued by the way the notches just linked together and made a bow, they all sat around the family table and pitched in, making about twenty bows each. My daughter commented that she wished we could give just bows for Christmas, lol. One thing for sure, we will have enough bows for next year as well!

DIY Bow Out Of Wrapping Paper