What are some ways to wrap presents without wrapping paper?

Spray paint them! I dare ya ;))

You could use colourful magazine covers that have no/only little text.
Or you could use cardboard boxes and paint them.
If you do not have cardboard boxes, you could use the boxes the presents came in, turn them inside out and then paint them.
Or you could skip the wrapping altogether and just use the ribbons to decorate them.
For softer things, like socks and the like you could use transparent plastic foil.
Or you could hide them until you give them to the recipient personally.

Duct tape…

@lucillelucillelucille I’d love to, but I’m pretty sure my step-sisters would kill me when that ruined their earrings ;)

Comic sections of the newspaper. Grocery bags that you decorate.

Tea towels are always nice, or random pieces of fabric. You can also put them in regular old brown paper bags and then draw, paint or glitter a design on the outside. Or you could put foil on the gift and then seal it up with plastic wrap (very shiny display!). Or you could put the gift, if it’s small enough inside a large ziplock bag and then put torn bits of colored construction paper in there to conceal it. Or you can take regular newspaper and paint swooshy brush strokes over it (so you can still see some of the writing) to make your own unique wrapping paper. You can put socks and candy and other small things into paper towel or toilet paper tubes.

@papayalily – Spray paint the box! I do like your idea for my own sister though XD XD XD

Toilet tissue or paper bags.

Aluminium foil. It’s all sparkly.

Newspaper?

For things like earrings, a ziplock bag or jar full of rice, tied with a piece of ribbon.
Do you have yarn or leftover fabric that can be cut into strips? Put small things the center and wrap them with yarn or fabric strips to make a ball.
Decorate brown lunch bags if you have those.
Take a cereal box, unglue the seams, decorate the kraft side, and then reglue the box so your artwork is on the outside, and the printing is on the inside.

Old t-shirts with handwritten tags pinned on with safety or sewing stick pins.

Pillowcases tied off with fabric ribbons.

Paper grocery bags cut and wrapped plain side out, decorated with colored markers, old buttons, etc.

I’ve used aluminum foil like @Lightlyseared suggested. I’ve also printed a design from my computer and used that paper for wrapping.

Foil! We’ve used that too along with cutting old greeting cards into makeshift gift tags.

Use plain paper, or paper bags, and decorate it yourself. Or use pages cut out of magazines, especially photos of wintery things. Or cut strips of coloured plastic bags and tape them together.

I saw a lady on TV this morning put candy on a scanner (with a piece of white paper as background) and she made all sorts of cool wrapping paper (admittedly only 8.5×11).

I have a house full of different kinds of fabric, so I often use that. However, for those who don’t, I have used @Blueroses idea of printing out pages on the computer and then making boxes out of it with tape, or glueing it onto small boxes.

My grandsons and I recently made a magnet alphabet storage box by cutting the pictures off return address labels and sticking them all over an empty check book box.

use brown paper bags and cut a sponge in a shape like a Christmas tree or whatever, and sponge paint the brown paper. or if that’s too much trouble, use the brown paper with some pretty ribbon. if you have some fabric, like fabric napkins, bundle the present in it and tie with a bow. take 8½×11 paper (copy paper) and draw holiday designs with markers on it., and use that. use the comic section of the paper.

mmm for the earrings I would go to the store buy some candy or chewing gum that has the most colorful wrapper, and put the earrings inside

Merryful Christmas, Everybody!
@papayalily : What did you end up using?

@JilltheTooth Mostly napkins and scraps of fabric.