Finally! My first DIY post! I think I was waiting this long to post a DIY project because I wanted to make sure it was a good one. For Christmas this year, I wanted to give my family a thoughtful gift with flavors of my town. I made the gift baskets using recycled newspapers tubes and hand selected food from a Mennonite store in town that I thought my family would like.

This was my first time making newspaper baskets and it was so much fun! It took me back to my childhood days of making friendship bracelets. Just a fun thing to do while watching TV. I made 3 baskets in a day while watching the marathon of “Once Upon A Time” on Netflix.

The first step to making these baskets is to make newspaper rolls. I used this tutorial to figure out how to do that:

Once you have a bunch of paper tubes, the next step is to make the baskets. I found that I needed about 50-100 paper tubes to make one basket. I used this video to guide me on how to make the newspaper baskets: