How to Wrap and Pack a Backpack as a Gift - tips from a Backpack Designer
Can you make a backpack look good when you wrap it as present? Backpacks make great, useful and gifts that are used every day for years, but it can be tricky to wrap so it looks amazing when its opened.
Try these simple steps to make sure your traveller is delighted when they see their travel gift for the first time, with secure backpack designer Sarah Giblin.
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1. Collect free packaging
In the run up to a birthday, Christmas or in the gifting season, look out for packaging paper and bubble wrap coming through your door with other deliveries. With all the online orders we receive these days, we a lot of high quality paper and foam is often thrown out! You can reuse them to great effect
2. Pack backpack into a 3D shape with paper
Most new backpacks are flat when empty. We want to change this. Grab the packaging paper you’ve collected and pack it into the backpack so that it’s light, full and you can show it off in all its 3D glory! It will help the traveller receiving it can see it at its best and imagine themselves using it from the moment they pull off the wrapping paper.
3. Add small notes to make it personal
Take 3 minutes to add three or four little notes in the different pockets. Keep them short and sweet e.g.: “Keep your passport safe in here!” “Your laptop lives in here!” “Water bottle here” or include a little handwritten note to let them know you’re thinking about how they will use it. This is a totally cost-free way of enhancing any gift. A backpack present, with all its little pockets, benefits greatly from this.
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4. Simplify the shape with bubble wrap
There are a few little things that stick out on a backpack like straps and buckles. They can be little difficult to wrap. Wrap one piece of bubble wrap or foam around the 3D packed backpack to make it into one smooth shape. The laptop backpacks I design - RiutBags - come in their own protective bag which works well for this too. This way, there will be no odd corners that could break the wrapping paper. This works for any object without uniform sides that you'd like to wrap.
5. Wrap the backpack!
Now that your backpack is packed out in 3D form and has bubble wrap around it, it will be much easier to wrap. For larger backpacks, I suggest using one long piece which goes from the front, over the top, and to the back. Put the backpack face down on the paper. Pull the paper over the top and up the back. Tape the paper seam along the back. With the backpack still front side down, push the paper down each side and tape the side shut. Repeat on the other side.
6. Add decoration
If your packing paper is beautiful enough, you're done! If your wrapping paper is plain, now you can draw on it, add a bow or a card.
That's it :) Now when your favourite traveller opens their backpack, it'll look great and delight them with thoughtful notes when they find them later. That's how to pack and wrap and backpack so it not only looks good.
Wishing you safe and exciting travels!
Sarah Giblin
RiutBag designer
Find my secure laptop designs at www.riut.co.uk
