Easy DIY Christmas Gift Ideas for Everyone
This Christmas, I am going to surprise my friends with my personalized homemade gifts with the touch of love and care.
Each of these 7 homamde gifts that I had made over the years were given to my family members and friends regardless of occasion.
These Christmas gifts that I had made used recycle items, old or store away items that had became best Christmas gifts ever!
If you are tight on a budget and your Christmas gift list is long, try to make these 7 handmade gift ideas and your friends would be in for a surprised that you could handmade these special gifts with your talented hands!
“Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more....”
— ― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas5 Reasons To Make Your Homemade Gifts
1. Save money and time
- Store bought gifts with skyrocketing prices are on display at shopping malls, departmental stores and gift shops.
- Safe petrol and parking fee.
- Wasting time in choosing the perfect Christmas gifts for friends may take hours or days with a wide variety of gifts available in the market.
- Homemade gifts are the perfect gifts made from your heart, time consumed with creativity. The one and only gift.
2. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
- Everyday is Earth Day
- Reuse old card boxes, color construction papers and ribbons or old gift wrappers to recycle them into a perfect Christmas gift.
- Declutter your house
3. Display your hidden talents
- Don't let your baking talents hidden at home.
- Bake delicious cakes, cookies or Christmas food for your family and friends..
- Baking cakes, cookies and muffins from scratch are easy as a pie with lots of YOUTUBE tutorial videos available online.
- If you have the niche for drawing , sewing or making handmade gifts, put your talents into a good use for this Christmas Day.
- Homemade gifts are great for display on Christmas tree or make a Christmas wreath for the door.
4. Handmade Gifts are better than Machine made
- A trendy picture of handmade sewn picture related to Christmas would make a wonderful gift for your friends.
- It is one of a kind, the only one that is for a special someone.
- Will induce surprise to your love ones.
- Appreciated your talented gifts, treasure it for a long time.
- It is non-replaceable.
5. Inexpensive and Unique
- It is cheap but it doesn't mean it is useless. You can make your special recipe book, journal, photo album, photo frame or crochet a scarf for your love ones.
- Save money , buy materials online or use old items that are meant to be discard to create something special that the recipient may find it useful.
Idea No. 1
Handmade Christmas Card
1. Make a Christmas Card
I am using this color papers
It is best to use manilla card. Decorating the front of the card signifies your creativity. Write a special Christmas greeting message inside the card with a black or red marker.
Here's a simple JOY CARD which I had recently made.
You will need:
- 1 long white string with a needle
- 1 piece of manilla card / stock card (any color)
- 1 small piece of pink /red color paper
- 1 small piece of cream color paper
- 1 long white string / thread
- glue,scissors,pencil and ruler
METHOD:
- Measure and cut the manilla card 6 x 6 inch. Fold into half.
- Cut the pink/red color paper 6 x 1.5inch strip.
- Hand tear the bottom strip.
- Cut the cream color paper into 4 small circle using a coin or bottle.
- Draw the letter J, O and Y on each circle with a black marker. Draw 2 wave lines on the last circle.
- Sew the circle joining all the 3 circles onto the manilla card and tie a know at the back of the card.
- Glue J,O and Y onto the manilla card.
- Sew the last circle onto the pink/red color card and tie a knot.
- Glue the circle onto the manilla card.
Write a "JOY TO THE WORLD, CHRISTMAS IS HERE!" or any desired Christmas message you want inside the card with a red marker.
'A bookmark is usable and a piece of art, therefore it is functional art.'
- Katy Cox and Sue Uhlig, Perdue University Galleries
Idea No.2
Santa Claus Bookmark
How to make a Cute Santa Bookmark
Yes, make your very own Santa Claus bookmark for your friend. I'm sure your friend will always remember you every time he or she sees it. You can color it with crayons or color pencils to brighten up the picture.
You will need:
- a manila card or any unused boxes (milk / flour paper box)
- a pencil for drawing
- a ruler for measuring
- scissors
- a coin or any circle items
- green or any color paper
- glue
- red ribbon
- marker pen ( red and black)
METHOD:
- Cut a rectangle about 5cm x 15cm out of the manilla card
- Cut a rectangle about 12cm x 18cm out of the green color paper
- Glue and paste the card onto one side of the paper
- Glue along all the sides of the color paper
- Fold in and paste them. Make sure all sides are stick together
- Punch a hole in the upper part of the card
- Draw a Santa Claus on the paper
- Tie a red ribbon about 6cm long through the hole
- Done. You can add some colors to the picture.
Another bookmark that Peachpurple had made
Let your kids join the fun in making Shamrock Bookmark on St.Patrick's Day. This craft uses recycle materials such as empty box, left-over wrapper, yarn and papers. A simple and easy earth Day craft.
Santa Claus Bookmark
Quotes
Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
-Sandra Lee
Idea No. 3
Make your own Christmas Cookies
Christmas Coconut Cookies
Coffee Walnut Cookies
Don't spend money on buying cookies.
You should try your hand on baking some cookies for gifts.
Furthermore, they are made originally from you. Kids and adults love cookies at all festive seasons.
After baking them, store them in air-tight container, wrap it up with a transparent color plastic wrapper and tie it with a red ribbon.
Don't forget the Christmas card!
I am sure you are going to like this.
Idea No. 4
Cross-Stitch or Crochet Wall Frame Picture
If you are good at cross-stitching, sew a Santa or Christmas tree and frame it up.
You don't have to stitch a big area because it takes too much time.
Remember you are racing against time now.
Find a small picture and maybe just stitch "MERRY CHRISTMAS" will do.
Cross-stitching with frames always brings fond memories to me.
Idea No. 5
Make A Recipe Scrapbook or a Journal
Easy Scrap booking with newspaper recipe cuttings
If your friends or family members love baking or cooking, gather all your newspaper or magazines cuttings, photos, old grandmother's recipes and paste them into a book.
Add some color papers with shapes and sizes, stickers, price tags or pictures drawn.
Make your recipe book comes alive with various photos, advices, hints and tips. I have one which I made myself.
Mostly from newspaper cuttings because they are free and colorful with wonderful useful tips.
I use supermarket brochure for the book cover and handwritten the title instead of using computer printouts.
The instructions, methods are taken from my mom, neighbors and aunts.
Idea No. 6
Bake Your Favorite Cake
Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
Audrey Hepburn
More Cake Recipes @Peachpurple Recommends
- Rice Cooker Recipe: Marble Cake With Almonds
Marble sponge cake is super easy to bake when I use my rice cooker. It is a mixture of chocolate and vanilla cake, very impressive pattern and super delicious! - How to Bake Cherry Coconut Cake with a Rice Cooker
Cherry Coconut Cake is another great additions to my cake recipes. Desiccated coconut makes the cake heavier, compact and full of coconut flavor while the cherries are wonderful to bite for there are crunchy to me.
Bake a cake that everyone loves
Some people prefers to eat than receiving presents.My friends are the ones with sweet tooth.
Luckily for me, baking is my favorite hobby.Lemon cake is sweet not sour at all because you uses the lemon grated skin and very little lemon juice.
Choose other flavors instead like chocolate, strawberries, blueberries or marble-cake.Freshly bake from oven, send your cake present immediately before it turns soggy.
Put them in fridge to keep the cake interior intact.
7. Bake Raisin and Chocolate Muffins
I love this non-stick Muffin Tray!
Lovely sweet gift for friends
Moist texture with sweet chocolate chips and raisins
This muffin recipe is simple, quick and easy and if you are using a twelve hole muffin tin.
The inner texture is moist and soft, doesn't stick to your teeth.
There are wide variety of muffins which are healthy , delicious and convenient to bring along especially to work, school, picnic and great for a quick snack while driving in a traffic jam.
A perfect gift for small eaters.
Which do you prefer to receive as your Christmas gift?
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© 2009 peachy