Today is some one special's birthday, so we've been busy making some parcels. The first is this surprise ball. Below are some pictures of how we did it. Firstly, we collected up a lot of pretty bits and pieces: a variety of things to write on and with, little treats (sweets and treasures), ribbon, embroidery thread, tissue paper and a stick on bow to fix it all shut.



Next, we cut the tissue paper into ribbons by folding each sheet into a thin column and chopping it up (this ball only took two sheets of tissue paper). Then scribbled LOTS of messages of love in a variety of shapes and sizes, and scattered them through the contents we'd collected.





Then all that remained was  to pick up the central gift of the ball and start wrapping the tissue paper, adding notes and things until they were all gone. Occasionally we wrapped the ball in something other than tissue paper, sometimes we threw in some glitter to make a happy mess on opening. The centre of our ball was pink, with the outer layers being white. When we got to the end I kept it shut with the stick on bow. Simple.