Happy Holidays:

Happy holidays is a traditional greeting used during the holiday season, not just for Christmas. It is a great greeting for non-religious, or non-Christian affiliations, and it has a lot of potential for making fun gifts. In the United States, the phrase "Happy Holidays" is often used as a simple way to refer to all of the winter holidays, most notably, the three major American holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.

• Idea 1: Give a holly leaf wreath with a tag that reads "Happy Holly-days." Packaging is a lot of the fun with gift giving, and with using holiday greetings in fun ways for Christmas gifts. So, tie a big red bow around your gift and attach a cute handmade card with your greeting written or typed in. You can find holly berry printed paper, or use a stamp or hand drawing to embellish the card some.
• Idea 2: Give a gift of candied nuts, a nutcracker, and other nut themed goodies with a note that reads, "I'd be a "nut" not to wish you Happy holidays!" This is a great way to use a traditional greeting and add a little pizazz to it. You can get a Christmas colored basket, and fill it with goodies, and wrap it in cellophane with a big Christmas themed ribbon which you attach your creative note to.
• Idea 3: Use the idea of changing the words around, like "Hoppy Holidays" and give a fun gift of a bunny dressed in Christmas clothes, or some other rabbit themed gift. A great gift for a family with small children is a set of Peter Rabbit, Velveteen Rabbit, or some other rabbit books or movies, and use this tag on the outside of the package.

The greeting, "Have a very Merry Christmas" is a sweet way of well wishing your friends and family over the holidays. It expresses your hopes that their Christmas is good, and fun. You can use this greeting in a productive way to make fun Christmas gift tags with clever twists.

• Idea 1: For an inexpensive gift idea that makes a fun Christmas gift and utilizes this fun Christmas greeting is to bake loaves of bread, and wrap them in cellophane, and give them with a jar of your favorite berry jam. Attached to the gift you can include a fun tag that reads, "Have a berry Merry Christmas." You can use this same play on words for many other gifts, including berry pies, holly berry gifts, etc. Put it to use and see what you can come up with. If you are not into baked goods, consider buying Berry flavored candy, etc.
• Idea 2: For a quick and easy Christmas gift you can use for office co-workers or neighbors consider purchasing bags of Chocolate Candy Kisses, and including a tag that reads, "Have a very Merry Kiss-mas." You can use this same tag and give lip sticks or lip glosses to girlfriends.

Merry Christmas:

This is probably the most common Christmas greeting, and it expresses well wishes and love. It makes for a great greeting whether you are greeting strangers or friends. The word "Merry" was derived from the Old English word called myrige, which originally meant merely "pleasant" rather than joyous or jolly that it means now. The first known usage of it in a more jovial sense and as a Christmas or holiday greeting was in an informal letter written by an English admiral in 1699. Then the term combined with "Happy New Year" was used in the first Christmas card, produced in England in 1843, and in the popular carol "We Wish You a Merry Christmas."

The following are some fun ways to incorporate this greeting into your gift giving.

• Idea 1: "Merry Kiss-mas" This is the same as the idea listed above, using this phrase attached to a bag of candy kisses or lip stick, lip gloss, or chapstick. It is a fun and inexpensive gift, and can be combined with several other things for a bigger gift if you want.
• Idea 2: "Mary Christ-mas" is another fun way to express this phrase and remind people about the religious side of the Christmas celebration. Attach this greeting to a boxes nativity set, a picture of the nativity scene, or any other religious genre gift and it makes the perfect witty card. You can often pick up nativity sets for very inexpensive, or even ornaments with painted scenes of the nativity or Christ. These are all fun gifts to attach this phrase to.

This popular Christmas greeting comes from a phrase of lyrics in a popular Christmas song. It was adapted and has now become a common way to part with friends and family from Christmas parties and events. Lucky for you, this traditional greeting has a lot of potential for unique gift tag ideas.

• Idea 1: "We whisk you a merry Kiss-mas" This is a really fun one, and can be used any number of ways, but the big idea is to get a wire whisk, large or small, and fill it with the yummy candy kisses, plain, almond, or whatever you want. You print this little saying out and attach it with ribbon. You can give just the whisk with treats, or you can make it a more elaborate gift and give it in a mixing bowl with cake mixes, cookie mixes, muffin mixes, etc. You do not have to bake anything yourself, and can make the gift as big or as small as you would like.
• Idea 2: Using the phrase, "We wish you a Merry Christmas" just as it is you can give a small wishing well with a dollar coin in the bottom of it, or a treat of some kind. This is a fairly informal gift, and can be a fun little way of letting someone know you are thinking of them at Christmas.

Seasons greetings

This is a fun phrase that appeared in the late nineteenth century and has become a popular phrase for Christmas cards and cordial greetings with friends and family ever since. The phrase sort of incorporates all of the winter holidays to be a rather vague, but encompassing greeting. It has a lot of potential for fun Christmas tags and ideas.

• Idea 1: Use a play on words by giving a spice rack of seasonings with a fun gift tag using the popular phrase. You can use the same play on words using all sorts of other things, such as a packet of hot cider tied with cinnamon sticks and a bow; seasoned popcorn or other seasoned and spiced foods, etc. You can make this as inexpensive or as costly as you want by purchasing whole sets of seasonings, or by making your own treats and attaching a greeting. You can use grilling seasonings for your BBQ lover, baking seasonings for the person who loves to bake, or a combination of seasonings for the person you do not know how to buy for.

Hoping your Christmas is sweet:

This one has unlimited potential as you can give any number of sweets and attach this greeting. If you want to go with the budget friendly option you can bake cookies at home, or cakes, or any number of sweets, and put them on paper plates with plastic wrap and a ribbon. Or, you can with a more expensive option and buy boxes chocolates, gourmet treats, or specialty baked goods from a bakery or restaurant.

With many of these gifts the packaging and presentation are half the battle. The phrases are catchy and fun, and add a little pizazz to the gift, but a bright bow, fun printed cellophane, and the extra special touch of a handmade card makes people realize how much you care, and make your gift that much more special. Use these unique ways to use Christmas greetings in gift ideas for a fun, and memorable Christmas gift giving experience.