The very mention of the word Christmas reminds us of celebrations, Christmas trees, snow, delicious feats, prayers, gifts, and decorations. When speaking about gifts, Christmas gift baskets and hampers are an inevitable part of the festivities. Most of them prefer giving each other gift hampers loaded with the receiver’s favorite things within. The content may be anything ranging from cookies and chocolates to candles and Christmas party supplies or anything that you feel that the receiver would love to get as a gift.

Apart from being exchanged as gifts, Christmas baskets can also be filled with assorted Christmas ornaments and be used as a part of your home decoration. Irrespective of the purpose for which you use the basket for, decorating your basket plays a vital role its appearance is what matters the most when gifting or using for decorations.

Here are few fashionable ideas to decorate your unique Christmas gift or decoration baskets.

• Improve the presentation of the Christmas basket by loading it first with raffia, colored cellophane, straw, shredded colored paper or crumpled tissue paper. Line it with a fabric piece using a Christmas design. You can make use of white, red or green filler or use a combination of all these three colors. And then, fill them with the main gifts.

• After filling the basket with the main gifts, you can also consider tucking in few Christmas-themed gifts in between the main gifts to decorate the basket and set the festival mood. Go on with the holiday motif by tucking in scented holiday candles, candy canes, winter trail mix, Christmas ornaments, cookies, and foil-covered chocolates. You can also slip in decorative accessories like snowman, snowflakes or paper Santa to mirror the Christmas theme.

• Glitters and ribbons are great ways to give your basket that extra special look. Use glitters around the basket for a shiny appearance. Ribbons made of satin, silk, fabric, velvet or anything else in red, green or white colors can be used to give a very attractive look to these gift hampers. Make elegant bows out of these ribbons and tie them to the hamper.

• Finally, wrap the whole basket by gathering cellophane around it. Fasten it using clear plastic tape getting all the wrapping ends together. Here again, you can tie a ribbon or stick a bow over the tape for decoration. Alternatively, you can also attach a Santa, poinsettias or snowman to the basket’s handle using a Christmas-colored pipe or wire. At last, don’t forget to add a gift tag or Christmas card to complete the look, and ensure that the recipient recognizes your identity.

In a Nutshell

With these Christmas basket decoration ideas, you are sure to design a unique hamper that looks attractive both as a gift and decoration. Let your creativity and imagination run wild in the process of designing a distinctive gift basket, and you’ll not just have a blast, but even the recipient would be extremely happy too.