Like many parents of young children, our weekends are often spent socialising with the under three crowd at birthday parties.
Given our eldest son creates more paintings and drawings than our fridge could ever display, we reuse these as giftwrap. It’s just one small way we reduce our household waste and save ourselves the purchase (and environmental) cost of commercial giftwrap and greeting cards.
Accompanied with a simple card created from his artwork or a giftcard we’ve received, our giftwrap is unique, personal, eco-friendly and cost-effective.
Reusing your child’s artwork is just one way you can eco-fy your gift giving. Here’s some others…..
- Place your gifts in gift bags that can be reused over and over again
- Re-use any gift wrap and ribbon that you receive
- Go without gift wrap altogether and just tie a lovely ribbon around your gift
- Gift experiences rather than physical items (BONUS as they don’t need wrapping)
What’s your best tip for wrapping gifts the eco-friendly way?
Laura Trotta is one of Australia’s leading home sustainability experts. Fusing her professional expertise as an environmental engineer with the down-to-earth pragmatism that comes from being a busy mum, Laura is an eco thought leader who’s not afraid to challenge the status quo.
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Laura Trotta is one of Australia’s leading home sustainability experts. She has a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering, a Masters of Science (in Environmental Chemistry) and spent 11 years working as an environmental professional before creating her first online eco business, Sustainababy, in 2009. She has won numerous regional and national awards for her fresh and inspiring take on living an ‘ecoceptional’ life (including most recently winning the Brand South Australia Flinders University Education Award (2015) for the north-west region in SA and silver in the Eco-friendly category of the 2015 Ausmumpreneur Awards). With a regular segment on ABC Radio and with her work featured in publications like Nurture Parenting and My Child Magazine, Laura is an eco thought leader who’s not afraid to challenge the status quo. A passionate believer in addressing the small things to achieve big change, and protecting the planet in practical ways, Laura lives with her husband and two sons in outback South Australia. 
