child's artwork as wrapping paper

so recently my awesome brother came to visit for a couple of weeks. 

while he was here we had the chance to celebrate his birthday.

i started a tradition last year of taking advantage of dolly's love of painting. 

so when someone in our family had a birthday dolly would paint a picture for the lucky birthday boy or girl.

this time around i had the idea of wrapping tyler's present in a piece of artwork created by her.

 as you can see painting is a very serious business to my little one.

 this picture of her was actually taken the first time that she ever painted anything.

 her first painting will always have a spot in my home and heart.

anyways sorry for the departure.

a page ripped out of an old magazine is the perfect size to wrap a c.d.

you can also have your child paint on a larger scale of paper to wrap presents by way of using the big paper rolls that they sale at ikea in the children's section.

 i like to top the presents i wrap in different types of ribbons, yarn or jute.

jute turned out to be the perfect match with dolly's creation to man it up a bit for uncle tyler.