Homemade Gifts for Friends
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you just the way you are.
The quote that is given above truly depicts the nature of friends. They are the people who will not only be there with us during happy times, but will also give their full support during the time of crisis. As friends are such valuable people that come to our life, it is our duty to make them feel special with little gestures of love. One way we can do this is by giving gifts, especially on special occasions like on birthdays, Christmas, etc. However, most of us just pick up the thing that we know that our friends love the most to be given as gifts. Though this is absolutely fine, there is nothing exceptional about it. Hence, rather than buying an expensive gift that your friend may not even use, it will be better to present something that you have made on your own.
Yes, I am talking about homemade gifts i.e. gifts that one makes oneself at home. Though these gifts are not very expensive, they will be surely valued by your friends as you have put in your time, efforts and thoughts to make them. So, if you are interested to know some of the good homemade gifts for friends, take a look at a few that are given below.
Easy Homemade Gifts for Friends
Many times, people know as to what homemade gift they want to give their friends, but do not know how to make it. Therefore, if you are battling with the question as to how to make homemade gifts for friends, the answer is actually quite simple. With the introduction of Internet, everything you want is just a click away. So, search what you want to make and you will surely find reliable instructions to prepare it. Here, we will look at some gift ideas that can be easily made at home.
Photo Collage
I can definitely say that this is one of the easiest homemade gifts for friends as I have myself tried at home. Collect the photographs that you have taken with your friend and stick them on a piece of card paper. Another way of doing it would be with the help of Photoshop. Scan all the photographs and make a collage with the special software on Photoshop. When you are done with it completely, print the collage on a good paper and frame it on a photo frame of your choice. Though it may take you 3 - 4 hours or may be a day to make the photo collage, the end result will be worth all the effort.
Delicious Chocolate Cake
One of the great homemade gifts for friend's birthday would be to bake a delicious chocolate cake. Do not worry, if you are not an expert at baking a cake, as it is not a very difficult task. If you do not want to bake a cake from scratch, there are several cake mixes that are available in the market. Look for a chocolate cake recipe on the Internet and buy all the ingredients that you would require to make it. If you are making the cake for the first time, it will be a good idea to try it once before your friend's birthday. Your friend will surely consider it as the best birthday cake for the effort you have taken to make it.
Candles
Candles are good homemade Christmas gifts for friends. Usually, during Christmas time, people are on a tight budget and giving gifts for each and every friend can be quite expensive. Also, one cannot avoid giving gifts to just a few of them. Hence, it will be a great idea to give everyone candles that are made at home. Candle making is an easy procedure and there are various books and Internet sites that provide instructions to make a variety of candles. You will have to buy the equipment and ingredients required to make the candles, but the total amount will be much lesser than what one has to pay for the candles bought from the store.
Hand Painted T-Shirts
If you are good at painting, hand painted t-shirts can be good homemade gifts for friends. You can easily get hold of plain T-shirts of different colors and sizes from the local store. Select some good quality T-shirts and paint them with different colors. You can make designs like smiley, cartoons, etc. Painting the zodiac sign of your friend on the T-shirt is also a good idea. Simple hand prints along with a funny quote or a meaningful poem about friendship will also be treasured by your friend.
These are some of the homemade gifts for friends that you can try at home. Some other things that you can make at home to give as a gift to your friends include scrapbooks, personalized calendar, food baskets, music CD, etc. Apart from these gift ideas, you can also come up with some more creative and innovative ideas that you can give as a gift to your friend. Whatever gift you present to your friend, wrap it with love and care and your friend will definitely cherish it for a lifetime.
