Happy holidays!
I just received a mystery gift
from a very inspiring YouTuber, Shalom Blac.
[GASPS] Are these cookies?
You know I love cookies.
This looks like it's one big scarf,
and it's really lightweight, which I really love.
You may not have even known this,
but I only own four bags.
I was in need of another one.
So now, five.
Oh, my gosh, this is... Oh, I won't look inside yet.
You gotta open and read the card first.
♪ Do, do, do, do, do ♪
Oh. Do... Oh!
Oh, my gosh!
Oh, Rosanna Pansino!
[GASPS] There we go.
"You've been selected to participate"
"in the
Oh, and then we have a link here.
Okay. I think I got it.
Hey, y'all. I'm Alton DuLaney,
the world's most famous gift wrap artist
and YouTube's wrap-presentative.
Giftlomat. Presenter.
Presenter. That's maybe a bit of a stretch.
Mmm-hmm.
ALTON: [ON PHONE]
YouTube's
- [GASPS] - Where you and 11 other creators
will participate in a chain of charitable gift-giving.
You will each be assigned a creator,
and as a gift,
each of you will make a donation to a charity
- that is important - to your recipient.
And then you will be whisked away
to my magical Wrap Shop. Magic.
Where I'll teach you how to gift wrap the creator's donation
in a thoughtful way.
You're probably curious about what's inside your present.
Yes, I am.
Go open that darn thing. I'll wait.
Okay. [GASPS] Look at these!
It looks like cake.
[SCREAMING]
[DISTORTED SCREAMING]
Oh, my gosh!
If you're gonna be spooked by anything,
a butterfly is the way to go.
"Shalom Blac has made a charitable donation"
"to Feeding America in your name."
Thank you so much. This means the world to me.
For those of you who don't know about Feeding America,
they're the nation's largest
hunger relief organization.
Food is something that I'm very passionate about,
and it's a necessity.
And that's why this is the perfect gift for me.
I can't believe there's more gifts inside.
Okay, there's multiple bags.
[GASPS] Fresh nuts, chocolates,
and what is this? Fruit?
[IMITATES EATING]
All right, let's see what else Alton has in store for me.
Without further ado...
- [COMICAL MUSIC PLAYING] - [GASPS]
- [GIGGLES] - I took years of modern dance.
Let's find out who your lucky gift-cipient is.
Who? Who? Who is it?
What?
- Oh, come on! - [GIGGLES] Who is it?
- [DRUMROLL] - Rosanna Pansino, your official gift -cipient is...
- [GASPS] - [GASPS]
The phenomenal Physics Girl!
Yes! I know her! I know her! [SQUEALS]
I'll see you at the Wrap Shop. Enjoy the train ride.
- Choo-choo! - [TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS]
I wonder where I go.
It's probably... You know what platform?
Nine and three-quarters.
I've been there. I know where to go.
I know how to do this. [LAUGHS]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
♪ I'm on the train Going to the Wrap Shop
♪ And there's lots of snow ♪
NARRATOR: So, to visit Alton, Rosanna went on her way...
Maybe I should've brought a sweater.
To see what she could cook up
in the Wrap Shop that day.
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
Ah, what's that I hear?
That must be Rosanna Pansino coming now.
[ALTON IMITATES TRAIN WHISTLE]
I'm so excited to work with Rosanna Pansino today,
and to roll out some amazing gift wrap ideas.
We're really gonna whisk up some incredible gift wrap.
See what I'm doing there?
Rosanna Pansino is such a powerhouse.
She's built this incredible career
out of her love and passion for food.
And I'm really hoping that some of her skills in the kitchen
can transfer over to some skills in the Wrap Shop.
And I think they will.
Did I get something on my hat?
No. Okay.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Hello, Rosanna! And welcome to my Wrap Shop.
I'm so excited to be here.
- I'm so excited to have you. - This is so cute.
This is my assistant, Aureleo.
He's the boss of the house here.
That is adorable.
So, we know you're a foodie,
but tell me a little bit about your background
and your experience with gift wrap.
Growing up, my family didn't have a lot of money,
so we got really creative with what we had.
So, for the holidays, my family would wrap gifts in the newspaper,
and I always knew which gifts were mine
- because they were wrapped in the funnies. - [LAUGHS]
And then, one year, my mom discovered that
- if you cut up paper grocery bags... - Yeah?
They kind of look like...
- Butcher paper. Yeah. - Butcher paper.
And now they call this, like, rustic.
- Right. - But back then... [LAUGHS]
I'd much rather see a gift wrapped in a shopping bag
than put in a gift bag.
Gift bags are lazy.
- Oh! Is that your hot spot? - Don't be lazy.
Well, I brought you a gift. Let's repackage... No, I'm just kidding.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
- Rosanna... - Yeah?
Tell me a little bit about your gift-cipient, Dianna.
Okay, I've scrapped it.
- I love it. - We love a scrapper.
ALTON: I can see that. And I love that you used a recipe book, too, for that.
That's pretty amazing.
- She graduated from MIT with a degree in physics. - Wow!
And then she did a fellowship at Harvard for astrophysics.
She knows her stuff.
She's a big role model to women.
Especially women who are in science, technology, engineering or math.
So, I think that she's just really inspirational.
So, tell me about the gift that you have for Dianna.
[GASPS] Okay, so, I wanted to make a donation
to the Malala Fund in Dianna's name,
because she's very passionate about this charity.
And I also have another gift idea.
- It is a kitchen gadget. - Sure.
It's a pie slicer that says "I Heart Pi,"
but it's 3.14. Like math pi.
Perfect. I have a feeling that you and I are gonna get along famously.
So, what do you think? Are you kinda in the mood to do a little gift wrapping?
I'm so ready.
On the count of three, we're gonna snap our fingers together.
- Okay. - One...
- BOTH: two, three. - [BOTH SNAP FINGERS]
[MAGICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[AURELEO GROWLING]
[BARKS]
- [ROSANNA GASPS] - [ALTON SIGHS]
I love it! This is so cute.
Welcome. Welcome.
And this is where we create the gift wrap magic.
And the first one is gonna be the Butter Wrap.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
So, you see, here we have these fun toys.
These gifts are actually gonna go to Children in Need.
These are so cool. What?
Again, we didn't have a lot of money growing up,
so my mom used to get us milk cartons.
Yes. Yes.
And she would wash 'em, dry 'em out,
and then tape 'em together, and they would be like
empty, hollow building blocks.
- Oh! - And we would collect 'em,
and then we would use those to make our play forts.
Actually, it's kind of super sweet.
I was, like, "Wanna come over and play with my milk cartons?"
-[LAUGHS] No. -[LAUGHING] What are you talking about?
Speaking of milk cartons, now we've got our gifts in here,
layer one of this gift wrap is going to be
with this great yellow craft paper here.
We're gonna roll out the paper,
and then you're gonna put your box on,
fold over the edge of my paper.
- A tiny fold. - Tiny fold.
ALTON: So, then you're gonna fold this up.
- I'm gonna push this against my belly. - Yes.
- This is a new technique. - Lean into that.
Put your stomach into it.
[LAUGHS] Now, both hands.
Both hands.
Ta-da! And then we're gonna use some double-sided tape.
So, you never tape to the actual box.
All right. Now, you're gonna rewrap this gift...
- [GASPS] - in white.
This is gonna be like the packaging that goes around the butter.
- We're gonna do the little flaps on each end. - Flaps.
Wrapping is a... A snap!
And just crisp up those edges again.
- So, now, decide which end is the better end. - Uh-huh?
-Option A. -Okay, looks pretty good. Pretty good.
Here's Option B.
- Let's work on B. - Okay.
- We're gonna rip off just the end. Okay? - [GASPS] Oh, my gosh! What?
No, no, no!
But that was the ugly end. We're ripping that off.
We're opening the brick of butter.
-ROSANNA: Okay. I'll just... -You're doing fine. You're doing fine.
Just pull that off.
You're right. Everybody's butter rips differently.
[ALTON LAUGHS]
-Ta-da! Doesn't that feel good? -[EXHALES HEAVILY]
It's like taking a Band-Aid off. It only hurts for a sec.
I think my heart rate went up a little bit,
- but now it's, like, really cute. - [LAUGHS]
It's only missing the label.
- And I've printed up for us... - [LAUGHING]
Unsalted butter labels. Unsalted because clearly I'm salty enough.
We're gonna add these labels here.
- ROSANNA: Ooh! - Excellent!
And, ta-da!
We have a stick of butter gift wrap.
ROSANNA:
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
[BELLS CHIMING]
I know you love pies.
Some of my favorite gifts in the whole world are food,
'cause that's my love language.
My love language is food,
and my family cooks for each other all the time as a gift.
- Right. - And during the holidays,
we're just mailing cookies to each other non-stop.
- What a great gift that makes for someone. - Perfect gift.
We're gonna create a Pie Wrap today.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
And it all starts with this simple slice of pie.
- You're gonna make a slice of cherry pie... - Ooh! Okay.
- And I'm gonna make a slice of apple pie. - Mmm.
According to one survey, the majority of Americans
prefer thoughtful, customized gifts
over expensive, store-bought gifts.
In fact, 40% of the respondents said
they would keep that handmade gift forever!
[CLEARS THROAT]
Which is perfect for what we're doing here,
because our wrap can't possibly get any more customized.
So, we're going to take our pie,
trace the triangle.
ROSANNA: I love this. Okay, this is really fun.
ALTON: Fold it on those lines.
We've got that.
You have your handy glue stick.
This is like greasing a cookie pan, right?
- Or greasing up a cake pan. - Yeah.
Gotta grease it.
ALTON: Oh, look! It's a perfect slice of cherry filling.
We need crust.
ALTON: We're going to draw the little, uneven edge,
which would be like the edge of the crust.
ROSANNA: Ooh! Here we go.
- Yes. - Oh, we have a victory.
So, now you're going to work on
the actual cherries that go in that.
- Oh. - ALTON: So, you've got the darker red paper there.
You're just gonna cut some circles out, about the size of a penny.
S.O.S. Wait, no, I got this. Speed cherries. Ready?
- Speed polka dotting. - Speed.
Love it. And now we have cherries.
- Now you have some strips of crust down there. - Pie dough crust. Yes.
- Ready. - ALTON: We're going to create
- that handy dandy lattice work on top of it. - Lattice.
So, what I do is I glue up the strip
and I put it across, and then I just trim it off.
It looks so cute. This looks just like a little piece of pie.
ALTON: That looks super cute.
[CRUNCHING SOUNDS]
To finish off our pie,
we're just gonna use some holiday magic.
But you have to say the magic word, which is,
"Wrapping is a snap."
- Are you ready? - Mmm-hmm.
- BOTH: Wrapping is a snap. - [BOTH SNAP FINGERS]
- And the magic has happened. - [GASPS] Yum!
I know you have a gift for Dianna as well.
Yes, I have the donation to the Malala Fund right here.
ALTON: Excellent. If I may.
- Now, as much as you love pie, I know that Dianna loves puns. - Mmm-hmm.
We've got a lot of fruit-themed pies going in here,
so I thought we'd add a little pun to each slice of pie.
I've printed up these cute little ones.
- "This pie will drive you coconuts." - Cute.
"Wishing you a very cherry holiday."
Aww!
"To open me, give me a pull."
- A pull. Apple. - [DRUM STING]
That's clever. That's good.
And that's a hint, too.
"I hope you a-peach-iate this slice of pie."
- [BOTH LAUGH] - ALTON: These are so darn punny.
I thought you could just twine a little ribbon around that.
I volunteered a couple of years for Toys for Tots.
They kicked me off the other wrapping duties, 'cause I took too long.
But the one thing that I could do is apparently ribbon tie.
Oh, let's see it.
ROSANNA: I do the bunny ears.
I do the bunny ears, too. It's just like tying your shoe.
People are, like, "I can't tie a bow."
I'm, like, "If you can tie your shoe, you can tie a bow."
Ta-da!
ROSANNA: Yeah, look at that little handle.
"I heart pi."
And that's one more play on words. One more pun.
Rosanna, I wanna thank you so much for coming out today.
- Aww! - I had so much fun wrapping with you.
I had so much fun. Thanks for having me.
This is blowing my mind.
Also, don't forget to tune into Physics Girl's channel.
She will be opening the gift.
And as we say here at the Wrap Shop, "That's a wrap."
- [TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING] - [GASPS] I think I hear my ride.
Right on time.
[ROSANNA] Toot-toot!
Happy holidays, everybody. Bye -bye.
[NARRATOR IMITATING SANTA LAUGHING]
NARRATOR:
[CLEARS THROAT]
Off to Physics Girl, the paper pie went.
How would she use science for her own present?
This was dangerous that Rosanna gave me the gift.
[GASPS] This is so cool!
Oh, it's like a bunch of pie.
"To open me, give me apple."
Give me ap... Give me a pull.
The holiday cheer doesn't need to end here.
Start your own gift-giving chain
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so we can all follow along.