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How can I disguise this present?

I need to wrap a lightsaber up but it is going to be really obvious what it is, I can't think of how to disguise it though? Perhaps I could wrap something else up with it? Not really sure so if anyone has any bright ideas, that would be wonderful!
Thanks
Slimming World - 3 stone 8 1/2lbs in 7 months and now at target :j

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  • Rikki
    Rikki Posts: 21,625 Forumite
    What age is the person it is for? It would help with ideas of what to wrap with it or make it look like. :)
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  • JailhouseBabe
    JailhouseBabe Posts: 1,590 Forumite
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    How about wrapping it in one layer of paper, cutting out the individual sections from egg boxes and gluing them to the paper, then wrapping again? Or instead of egg-boxes, just wads of scrunched-up newspaper in between layers.
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  • kjmtidea
    kjmtidea Posts: 1,372 Forumite
    It's for an adult. I did think about adding newspaper to it but unless I add loads it will still be a longish shape and I think it will give it away. I know it isn't a huge deal, I just wanted to make it a surprise if I could.
    Slimming World - 3 stone 8 1/2lbs in 7 months and now at target :j
  • newlywed
    newlywed Posts: 8,255 Forumite
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    Get a huge cardboard box and stick it in the bottom of the box (so it doesn't rattle), then wrap the box?
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  • sammy_kaye18
    sammy_kaye18 Posts: 3,731 Forumite
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    Lol I did that with my boyfriend

    I got him a magazine subscription last year - wrote it in a card that he had the subscription - card in an envelope and then the envelope in a huge box and filed it with that polystyrene stuff and wrapped the box took him ages to figure out what the hell ws int ehre but good fun though
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  • vikki_louise
    vikki_louise Posts: 2,358 Forumite
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    i would put it in a box too and stick it down if possible, I would also put something heavey like some books in (providing its a person who you can ask for them back!) so it makes it heavy and is less likely for people to guess that the box is just a disguise
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  • janeym8
    janeym8 Posts: 529 Forumite
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    what about in a big box with a brick inside it to make box seem really heavy?

    janey xxx
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  • she_grinch
    she_grinch Posts: 1,469 Forumite
    A poster tube and add a tube of smarties or tic tacs so they rattle around when he shakes it!
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  • linni
    linni Posts: 1,480 Forumite
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    Put a box on the bottom and make a round shape on the top with scrunched up newspapers so it looks like a lamp.
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