Recycled Christmas Gift Tags

- Rebecca Sipper

Recycled Christmas Gift Tags Recycled Christmas gift tags are a fun way to dress up your Christmas gifts for free. Kids and adults can use leftover craft and other materials around the house to make unusual and pretty Christmas gift tags for free.

Food Boxes

One of my favorite sources around the house for free or recycled gift tags is empty food boxes. The red tag in the photo is made from the end of a cracker box.

When looking at your empty food boxes, take the time to turn them in all directions. Often the tops and the bottoms of the box have less print on them and more solid color.

In the case of this recycle Christmas craft I was able to cut out a simple gift tag and get some cool graphics in them. No one will know this free Christmas gift tag is from a cracker box.

If your food boxes simply are covered in print and you have having no luck cutting out Christmas gift tags large enough to use, then you have a few options. You can first cut out two matching tags from the box that are the same size. Glue the colored or printed sides together.

The brown material on the inside now becomes the outside of your recycle Christmas craft project.

Secondly, you can also paint the cardboard. Try a coat of nice thick left over acrylic or house pain from other crafts. Let the paint try, punch your hole, and then write “To” and “From” on the gift tags.

Coffee Wrappers

Almost every person I know has a coffee from the local coffee shop about once a week. You can use that simple brown cup wrapper that protects your hand to make a simple and sweet brown gift tag that will coordinate well with country Christmas wrapping paper.

Cut out two identical gifts tags. Glue the printed sides together.

Now, use a nice thick maker to address the gift tag!

The small brown tag in the photo is made from a coffee cup wrapper.

Magazine Covers

Try flipping your magazine over to find tons of free colorful paper for cool Christmas gift tags. The cover paper on a magazine is usually thicker than the inside sheets.

The back cover is also the best place to find large blocks of color. This bright Christmas tag color came from an ad that had tons of yellow in the background.

My yellow gift tags in the photo are made from the back cover of a decorating magazine. This was a simple recycled craft that works so well for Christmas!