What is considered the best gift? That's right, the one that is made by hand. New Year's gifts of such a plan can be made diverse. For example, you can spend a week to create a present for a loved one, but half an hour is enough to create a souvenir for a colleague. Find Christmas gift ideas below.
Knitwear
A good DIY New Year's gift is woolen socks. Some will be surprised: why knit such things on your own, if you can buy them? Today, almost everything is sold, but the quality of store-bought socks and hand-knitted products will vary greatly. Things made from natural woolen threads warm well, while synthetic material is not even able to retain heat.
If you are good at knitting or crocheting, you can make a sweater. Neither a man nor a woman will refuse such a gift. You can find out in advance the size of a person, and at the same time his taste preferences by the model and color of the product. Connect to New Year'sholidays you can scarf and hat. In general, any warm clothes that you spend more than one evening creating will be highly appreciated by your family and friends.
Gingerbread house
The perfect DIY New Year's gift is an interesting sweet. Gingerbread house will appeal to both adults and children. You can make a small sweet souvenir or make a whole castle. There are various recipes for gingerbread dough. But keep in mind that most of them are based on honey, and this is a very allergenic product. So before giving such a gingerbread, check if the donee has any allergies.
You can make your own icing for the gingerbread house or buy it from the store. If you decide to do everything yourself, then you should buy village eggs, and not buy them in the nearest supermarket. The fact is that the protein that makes up the glaze does not undergo any heat treatment. The gingerbread house pattern is most conveniently applied with a pastry bag.
Candy box
It is customary to give sweet souvenirs for the winter holidays. New Year's gifts from sweets are in the greatest demand. But they are expensive, although sometimes there are not very many sweets in colored cardboard boxes. If you want to save money, you can put together a sweet New Year's surprise with your own hands. To do this, you should print the pattern attached above, cut it along the contour and scale it. Then you should translate the contourstenciled on beautiful double-sided cardboard. You can take thick one-color paper or use a printed sheet. Cut a blank out of it, and then fold it along the fold lines. You've got a Christmas present. With your own hands, you can make many such sweet surprises in this way. Experiment with shapes and sizes. And you can also put a pleasant surprise in each gift, such as a toy or decoration.
Ornamental Plants
What is the symbol of the main New Year holiday? That's right, tree. You can present a small plant in a flower pot. It is not necessary to buy a decorative Christmas tree in the store. You can dig up a branch of an ornamental arborvitae in a nearby forest. All plants have this property: they do not grow larger than the pot in which they grow. So if you do not replant the Christmas tree from a small container, then it will always remain a decorative decoration of the apartment.
As a gift for the New Year, you can present snowdrops. Any girl will be pleased to receive such flowers in the cold season. For especially romantic ladies, these fragile plants will remind everyone of the well-known fairy tale about 12 months. You should stock up on seeds in advance and sow flowers a month before the holidays.
Champagne Bottle
One of the gifts for the New Year can be alcohol. But an ordinary bottle of champagne is too trivial a present. Therefore, if you decide to present alcohol, then it should be decorated. You can decorate the bottle with decoupage, you canpaint it with contours, or you can assemble a composition of champagne and sweets. If you get along well with a sewing machine, you can sew funny costumes for Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden. Such a bottle outfit will definitely not go unnoticed. And if you do a good job, then your friends will wear these costumes for New Year's champagne every year.
Postcard
Your daughter is a needlewoman and gives you interesting souvenirs for every holiday? In the New Year, you can please your child. A handmade card will be an unexpected New Year's gift for your daughter. Why give a child such a thing? So that the girl knows where to grow up and so that she can take an example from her mother. Today's adults too often buy the love of children, instead of spending time on them and earning love.
Children can make DIY Christmas gifts from paper. Moreover, the child does not have to sculpt a postcard. He can make a garland or flags. Such a product will later become part of the New Year's decor.
Wish Cookies
Are you not deprived of culinary skills? Then you can bake an interesting New Year's gift for your daughter or for the whole family. Cookies with wishes will surely surprise your loved ones. You can arrange a family tea party and tell fortunes. It is desirable to write wishes exclusively kind and positive. And also you need to guess so that they are universal, that is, suitable for men and women.
You can give these cookies any shape. If you want to make pastries with filling, then the wish should bepack in foil. Or you can make individual packaging for each cookie and write a wish on it.
Notepad
Types of New Year's gifts are different. Some of the gifts are edible, others are useful, others are decorative. Notepad belongs to the second and third categories at the same time. You can make such a present yourself from craft paper or simply decorate the cover of a purchased diary. You must imagine to whom exactly and for what purpose you are giving a notebook. If you plan to present it to a man, then it is better to present a diary, and if a woman, then give preference to a notebook.
How can you decorate such a product? Use a variety of accessories. Suitable scraps of fabric, lace, multi-colored threads and beads of various sizes. You can glue rhinestones or silhouettes cut out of colored paper. Turn on your imagination and improvise.
Handmade soap
Are you into needlework and need some little Christmas gifts? Present soap. Cooking it will not be a problem for a person whose hands are accustomed to a variety of work. To create such a presentation, you will need a soap base, flavors and molds. And you can also make soap with the addition of various natural ingredients. For example, coffee, dried oranges, mint leaves or rose petals are great fillers. In addition to making your gift more attractive in appearance, they will also enrich the soap with useful scrubbing or moisturizing properties.
Picture
How to make a New Year's gift to be original? Create it with your own hands. What can be made? If you are a creative person, then it will not be a problem for you to draw a picture. Well, if you are just starting your creative development as an artist, you can draw a cartoon. But you don't have to paint a picture. It can be embroidered. If you want to demonstrate your skill to a loved one, choose a complex drawing on a topic close to the person. For example, if a girl loves animals, present her with an embroidered image of cats, and if a guy is crazy about snowboarding, present an image of a snowboarder on a mountain slope.
Also, paintings can be created from improvised materials. For example, from coffee beans or from all kinds of spare parts. You can make a diamond embroidery or make a beautiful small appliqué.
Candlestick
One of the ideas of New Year's gifts is things for decoration. Such gifts will be especially appreciated by girls. Candles are a universal gift. Yes, in our age, when electric vases have replaced candles, wax masterpieces are still relevant. No romantic evening is complete without them. And if you can buy candles in a store, then you can make a candlestick for them with your own hands. Today, candlesticks are popular, which are made from inverted glasses. You can make an interesting stand out of wood or metal. But do not use paper or cardboard for this purpose. These materials may ignite and cause a fire. But spruce twigs can be used to make a candlestick. And if you take artificial materials, then the gift will be able to please its owner for more than one year.
Spruce wreath
This decor element came to Russia from America. And our compatriots really liked the tradition of decorating their door with a Christmas tree wreath. But not all people have the time, desire and ability to build such a structure. And not many people want to buy a wreath. Therefore, if you like needlework, then build such an element of decor for your friends. It is best to make a wreath either from artificial branches or from tinsel. Why? Because then the gift will decorate the door of your friend from year to year. But a Christmas tree wreath made from natural branches can last all season.
You can create a wreath from a foam torus and artificial branches. Use a stapler to attach spruce branches to the base, and then decorate them with New Year's toys, dried oranges and painted cones.
Christmas toys
If you do not know what to give a loved one, present him with a decoration for the Christmas tree. There are never too many Christmas decorations. But how to create such a thing with your own hands? The easiest way is to silver or gild the bump. But you can also paint purchased balls with acrylic paints. Thus, you will be able to create unique toys that will exist in a single copy. You can write a wish and put your autograph on each balloon.
Pillow
Do you often sew? Or maybe making things is your hobby? ATIn this case, you can sew an interesting gift for a loved one. The pillow can be made of a material that matches the color of the donee's interior. And also you can sew a product that will carry not only a utilitarian function. For example, shape the pillow into a toy shape. It is worth stuffing such a thing with polystyrene balls. Then the pillow will be attractive not only in appearance, but also in touch.
You can present pillows in the form of letters. All girls will appreciate such a gift. After all, pillows can serve not only for their intended purpose, but also become an excellent backdrop for photographs.
Gift wrapping
As you know, people are always greeted by their clothes. So, presents too. Therefore, do not deprive attention of the packaging of New Year's gifts. Doing it with your own hands is easy. You just need to buy a suitable wrapping paper and dream up a little. You can complement the gift with a ribbon with a large bow or a coarse rope. It would be appropriate to attach a few spruce branches, a slice of dried orange and cinnamon sticks to the New Year's packaging. You can follow fashion trends and wrap gifts in dark paper. Or you can just use New Year's packages. Craft paper is also in trend today. So if you are not creative, you can simply wrap the gift in a bag, tie it with a ribbon and present it. But if the artist in you is not sleeping, then you should make an original box out of thick paper.
