[CHRISTMAS TUNE PLAYING]
[TRAIN HORN WHISTLES]
[WHEELS SQUEAKING]
We are gonna wrap probably a classic gift
that you're familiar with. It's the mini hoop.
So let's put our hoops inside,
mini basketball to the side. We'll come back to that.
This is what we call "the ice cream wrap."
The first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna wrap this
in just all white paper.
I call this the four-finger rule, so I just kind of measure
that I get about four fingers worth of paper
which serve the purpose for most boxes
of a typical, average size.
And now I fold over this edge just a little bit.
And what that does is gives you a clean working edge.
You're gonna use the double-sided tape,
put it on this fold...
Dang.
...and now, you're not gonna stick it down.
You're just kind of measuring it over.
You pull up the bottom
and that pulls up and goes right to the edge, and it seals down.
-MAN: Okay. -You kind of wanna adjust your box
to make sure it's kind of center.
So you have equal amounts of paper on both ends,
and then we just go in like this
and then I use my fingers
to kind of gently crease the edges.
And now we're gonna fold in first one side,
press it in against the box,
and use the table for a great crease.
And then we could use
a tiny little piece of double-sided tape on that flap,
and then that flap comes right up.
So we take those snapping fingers
and you're gonna run those fingers around your box
and really crisp up all of your edges.
And this gives you your basic fundamental gift wrap.
You see, here we also have our strawberry
and our chocolate.
We're gonna turn this into a Neapolitan
ice-cream-inspired wrap.
So we're gonna now wrap each end of the box.
To keep this paper from moving around,
we're going to employ some double-stick tape,
and now we're gonna trim off all this excess.
Again, that four-finger rule. You want just enough paper
to cover the bottom, so you kind of eyeball there
how much paper you're gonna need,
and then I'm just gonna trim off all of my excess.
So now what we're gonna do
is we're gonna do the same thing before. Tuck in the top.
Create those little flaps. Rotate it to one side.
Now this is just repeating what we did earlier
and you're a pro at this. Press it in against the box.
A little tiny piece of tape on there.
And then I'm just gonna crisp up my edges.
-Boom! -Ta-da!
Now we've got our vanilla and our strawberry,
and now we're gonna do that same game with chocolate.
We're gonna measure our four fingers to cover the end
and then we're gonna cut off all of the excess.
Take one of the ends of that paper,
fold it over to the edge of your gift like that,
single tape to tape that to the edge.
Take that flap, pull it up over.
Again, you can use that edge to mark,
and then you can just fold that under.
And then we're gonna tape that down.
And so now, the top down,
then you create those little triangles,
get a nice clean fold,
and then we're gonna fold in both sides.
Tape that down.
Just clean that up a little bit with your fingers.
And there is your tricolor Neapolitan ice cream.
So If you remember, there were two parts to this gift.
-The basketball. -The basketball!
This is something I really love to do
when wrapping a gift with multiple parts.
It's kind of deconstructing the gift
and wrapping each part separately.
So this is what I call the ice cream cone wrap.
We're gonna take some of our tissue paper
and we're just going to wrap up the ball
and what you wanna try to do
is create a scoop of ice cream look.
One piece of tape on the bottom to hold it together.
Now that we have our dollop of ice cream...
We're gonna need an ice cream cone.
That's exactly right.
We're just gonna create kind of a waffle-style pattern...
-Okay. -...twist it into a cone.
One little piece of tape
and