Gifts to Make for Christmas
This holiday season avoid the mad rush in the shopping malls by giving out handmade Christmas gifts to your near and dear ones. Choose some easy Christmas gifts this year and bedazzle your family with your artistic skills. Let us take a look at some Christmas gifts that you cab make at home.
Knit and Stitch
Knitting a sweater for your dear ones is one of the best homemade Christmas gifts, especially if you live in a cold region. For those who haven't picked up knitting needles in their life, it is a fairly easy thing to learn. If you have limited time and skills you could knit a scarf with the persons initials on it to make it a personalized gift. One of the best Christmas gifts to make for kids is knitting them a pair of gloves and if you know how to do embroidery you could write something on their gloves like 'Merry Christmas'.
Cooking and Baking
Baking chocolate chip cookies as gifts is another option for you. Pack them in a decorative jar while gifting them, put some fancy ribbons around the jar and write 'Merry Christmas' on the top cookie in the jar with cream. Presentation is as important as your culinary skills. If you have some time on your hand bake 4 different flavored cakes to represent all the four seasons and pack them in a big cardboard box which can hold all four. Write inspirational messages on all four cakes and give a Christmas card that says you care no matter what season. Food items are the best Christmas gifts to make at home and they a good way to say you care.
Arts and Crafts
This Christmas make something with your own hands as a gift for your friends to let them know how much you value their friendship. Christmas crafts are one of the best ways spread the spirit this holiday season. Cut out a Santa Figure on a big piece of cardboard, size depends on your choice. Go to a store near you and get a piece of red colored velvet cloth, cotton, black buttons and black ribbon. Cut out the red cloth to make Santa's dress and use the black ribbon for the belt. Also make a bag which you can stick on Santa's back with clips or stitch it on. Stuff some cotton in the belly region to give a life-like look to your Santa. Also use the cotton to make Santa's beard, stick it on with glue. Now put some handmade Christmas cards in Santa's bag, this is one of the easy Christmas crafts for kids.
Cool Accessories
Go to a store from where you can get some beads, plastic pearls, alphabet blocks, nylon thread, etc. If your family members favorite color is pink, choose some pink colored beads when you making a necklace for them. Another idea is to use Christmas colors like red and green for your accessory. If you get alphabet block well and good if not then paint letters on to the beads and sow in the pet name of your loved one into the bracelet. These easy Christmas gifts to make are quite popular with teenagers nowadays.
Christmas cards, picture frames, music Cd's, are some of the other gifts to make for Christmas. Let your imagination loose and start your project of making gifts a little early so that you don't get rushed and enjoy the art of giving the merry season.
