Most Filipinos enjoy giving gifts on special occasions to express care and affection for others. The Philippines has a strong tradition of gift-giving and produces native materials well-suited for gift wrapping, like hats from buri palm leaves, rattan baskets, and bags made from abaca fiber. These materials and others like sinamay cloth, coconut leaves, and buri boxes make excellent packaging that is also environmentally friendly. When wrapping gifts, it is important to showcase creativity through principles of design and decorative elements like ribbons, bows, and dried flowers.

1. Gift Wrapping TLE 8
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Most Filipino people are passionate in giving gifts to express affection
and to show concern with others. It becomes a tradition across culture to send
gifts on special occasions such as birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Christening,
Wedding, Valentine’s Day and others.
Our country is excellent on the production of famous native products
such as hats made from buri, baskets from rattan, bags made from abaca, native.
Anahaw fans and many others are good materials for exclusive and personalized gift
wrapping. Aside from that, we also made ecology-friendly materials use for wrapping
and packaging of gifts such as: Wrapping in the source of sinamay, abaca, raffia, etc.
Gift containers of bayong bags made of buri, coconut leaves, tampipi (small rectangular
buri box), native baskets, boxes made of narra and bamboo. Ribbons and bows in the
source of abaca strings, shells,
dried flowers, twigs, etc.
Learning Task 2: Look around your home. Make a list of the things that are
normally thrown away or disposed of after they have been used for its original
purpose. Think of an article/s into which an item can be converted or recycled.
Then complete the table below

3. To present a good looking gift it is very important to remember the art and design
because this will show your creativity. In this lesson you will learn the principles and
elements of design to attain the artistic and creative design
on gift wrapping.
Decorative Articles
To emphasize your creativity in gift wrapping, you need to consider decorative designs
like ribbon, bows, etc. One common important in gift wrapping is gift ribbons, it can
be made into decorative rosettes and bows with the use of bow pins, string and double
side tape. Here are some sample of gift ribbon that you
will learn on this lesson.
1. Ribbon Rosette 4. Flat Loop Bow
2. Twisted Trim 5. Spring Bow
3. Figure 8 Bow