If you find yourself skint, with the festive season just around the corner, what can you consider for Christmas gift ideas? There are so many gifts to give and you might worry about the amount you need to spend. You don’t need to spend a lot of money to gift well this Christmas. Have you thought about making your own presents? Using your talents to give something to a loved one this season? Making your own Christmas gifts is a great thing to do. Let’s have a look at some ideas!
Paint Some Stones
Have you had a go at stone painting or rock painting? There are groups online that hide different designed rocks around their local area and people find them. With positive messages and bright colours they can cheer anyone up on their worst day. How about decorating a rock for someone this festive season? A cheap and thoughtful personalised Christmas gift. Perfect!
Bake Some Cookies
Are you good at baking? Love the GBBO? How about you bake several batches of cookies using your best cookie recipes? Do a variety of cookies, and decorate them. Some with chocolate, some with icing sugar, some with nuts, others with raisins. Put a few of each type of cookie in little paper bags. Add a card or some festive stickers and each bag of cookies makes a delightful gift for Christmas.
Even if you aren’t that good at baking, you could create ‘kits’ for people to make their own. Use a glass jar and fill it with packets of pre-weighed ingredients that they’ll need for their baking. It’ll mean the gift makes them spend time together as a family, baking together, before enjoying the goods once they’ve been in the oven!
Say It With Flowers
Do you have a garden? If you can pick some flowers, you can make pressed flower bookmarks. You arrange the flowers on a piece of white blotting paper. Put another piece of blotting paper over the flowers and put heavy books over the blotting paper to press the flowers for a few weeks. Once dried and flattened, these flowers can be glued onto bookmarks, photo frames and anything you might want to give as a decorative gift. Maybe consider gifting plants or herbs too.
Handmade & Homemade
Consider getting crafty and making homemade and handmade gifts for your loved ones. You can make jewellery for the women in your family using wooden beads or even paper clips. Bracelets and necklaces are the easiest to make as all you have to do is string the beads up and tie the loose ends together. Use a strong elastic cord for the beads so the bracelet is stretchable and can be put on or taken off easily. As for paper clips, with a pair of tweezers and some cheap plastic beads, you can make attractive paper clip earrings.
Consider making your own soap, bath bombs, bookmarks. How about using a talent you have like photography or graphic design? You could take a family photo for loved ones or make them a personalised print. Think outside of the ordinary Christmas box and these are the gifts that people will remember!
Spend Some Time
How about booking a meal out together, or a simple coffee date? Life is crazy and there don’t seem to be enough hours in the day so scheduling time for loved ones is difficult. A great present is simply booking some time together.
Gorgeous Gifting
Do you need more gift-making ideas? Look online for do-it-yourself gifts you might want to make for Christmas. A great way to give personal gifts without spending a small fortune. Besides making your Christmas gifts, you can get pretty impressive gifts by spending time instead of money.
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