Martha Stewart’s easy Christmas wrapping hack for cylinder-shaped presents

When you have bought cylinder-shaped presents, Martha Stewart has the best way to wrap them.

Presents come in all shapes and sizes, which can make wrapping a little bit tricky.

If you would like to impress this year with your wrapping skills, making the presents under your Christmas tree look beautiful, then here’s how to start.

Requirements:

• Scissors
• Double-sided sticky tape
• Heavier wrapping paper
• Bow

To begin, open up your wrapping paper and place the cylinder present on top, horizontally.

Make sure that the paper (when folded up at the base of the cylinder present) reaches just over halfway.

Then cut the wrapping paper on the other side, making sure that enough wrapping paper is left over to reach over halfway of the present on that side too.

Check that the present can be rolled in the wrapping paper that overlaps slightly.

Once checked, unroll the cylinder, and place the sticky tape at the edge of the wrapping paper, right in the middle.

Stick the tape onto the cylinder present, fold down the opposite edge of the wrapping paper to create a clean seam.

Then place sticky tape on the clean seam, and wrap the paper around the cylinder, which will be secured by the sticky tape.

And here comes the hack… The hack that will make your cylinder presents look gorgeously wrapped.

Roughly fold one end of the cylinder so that it will stand upright, then you can work on the other end.

Very important

Start with the underlying flap, gently pull the paper and fold to pleat (which works with heavier paper).

Continue to pull and pleat, then when you reach the end, cut off the excess paper.

Fold in where the cut was made, to make a seamless look, and secure with double-sided tape.

Repeat on the opposite end, top with a pretty bow, and you’ve mastered wrapping a cylinder-shaped present – free to adorn as you wish.