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Decorating Christmas Gift Baskets




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Decorating process for a Gift Basket starts along with assembling. To give a special 'Christmas Touch' to your Gift Baskets, try some of these tips:

1. You can enhance the presentation of baskets, boxes, tins, hats, etc. by first filling them with:

colored cellophane "grass"
crumpled tissue paper
a piece of fabric (try something with a Christmas print)
shredded newspaper or coloured paper
straw
raffia

Use all of these in Red or Green or combine either with white.

2. Finish up by tucking in:

candy canes
foil wrapped chocolate Santas
other foil wrapped candies
small pine cones
a bunch of cinnamon sticks tied with red ribbon
Christmas greenery like the tips spruce and pine branches
Christmas ornaments
lots of small bows
mandarin oranges
nuts in the shell
small scented candles
Christmas baking (wrapped in cellophane)

3. Wrapping the basket can be done in the traditional way by gathering cellophane around the basket and tying with a bright red or green bow at the top.

4. After wrapping, adorn the baskets with a sprig of holly or any other Christmas Package tie-on. If using a basket with a handle, perch a Santa, Snowman, Angel Teddy Bear, poinsettias etc. on the handle.