Homemade Holiday Gift Ideas
Homemade holiday gifts for family and friends are a great way to add a personal touch to your presents, get everyone in the holiday spirit, and save money this holiday season. Here are a few ideas to make your gifts unique and creative.
Bread, Cookies, and Other Baked Goods
Banana bread, zucchini bread, chocolate chip bread, and holiday cookies are tasty presents that look good, especially if you wrap them up in a colorful wrap with holiday motifs.
Homemade Christmas Ornaments
The internet has an endless supply of homemade ornaments. Holiday decorations can be anything from paper snowflakes to garlands to tree skirts. The possibilities are endless. Here are a few:
Handmade wreaths. DIY Christmas twig wreaths are perfect gifts for people who like to decorate their front porches. You can make them with twigs, pine cones, and other materials that you can find in your yard or a park in any season.
Papier-mache christmas ornaments. Papier-mache Christmas decorations are fun to make and unique gifts that everyone will want to have on their trees.
Easy-to-sew Christmas stockings. Christmas stockings can be presents on their own or a way to hold gift cards, treats, or other small gifts you want to dress up a little.
Give Love Coupons and Special Certificates
Sometimes your family and friends might love nothing more than quality time spent with you. Create coupons for movie nights and breakfast in bed for your partner. Issue a voucher for a "free night of babysitting" for your family members with children or a "good for a home-cooked meal" certificate for your lonely relative.
Make sure you can deliver when the holders of your coupons and certificates decide to redeem them. Nobody appreciates counterfeit goods as a gift. These would be perfect presents for your loved ones and friends.
Homemade Holiday Cards
Making a card yourself makes it more personal than a store-bought card and more special for the receiver. And cards are fun to make, too! Making holidays card can be a simple project or something more involved, depending on your time, skills, and desire to create something awesome.
You can turn card-making into a holiday family tradition and astonish friends and relatives every season with the creative genius of your kids.
DIY Jewelry
Fashion your own jewelry from easily-sourced materials and give them to the special people in your life. There is a gazillion of tutorials online for every skill level and budget. Make clay pendants, leather charms, wire earrings, tassel necklaces, and braided bracelets with little to no money.
Knitted Gifts
If you know how to knit or willing to learn, then you can make beautiful and functional presents that will work for almost everyone. You can make personalized gifts for anyone - mittens and hats for kids, a scarf for a trendy person, trivets and pot holders for someone who likes to cook, and a sweater for an old friend.