How to make a DIY birthday gift for your sister?

Sometimes the question arises - what can I give my beloved sister on her birthday. And to be sure that the gift will bring joy, not disappointment, it is necessary to take into account the age and interests of the birthday girl.

Gifts may vary depending on the age of the birthday girl.

At this age, the emotions of children are sincere and genuine. A good gift for a little sister for her birthday can be a trip with the whole family to the zoo or to the children's entertainment center. You can organize a home holiday, and invite friends of the birthday girl.

For preschool children, gifts with a certain theme are selected that develop the mental abilities and healthy thinking of the child. Sometimes children are indifferent to expensive store toys, and a homemade gift causes a storm of positive emotions in a child. For a 6-year-old sister, you can make yourself useful craft gift in the form of a gamethat strengthens the concentration of attention and improves memory. To create it you will need:

• 33 plastic bottles with one-color plugs with a diameter of 3.5 centimeters;
• a piece of a flat board or plywood;
• Superglue "Moment";
• dark marker;
• hacksaw with a blade for metal.

The most difficult stage in the execution of the craft is cutting 33 bottles with a thread from the bottles, you should contact the master.

Craft is carried out step by step.

• Unscrew the cork from the bottle, write on each cork with a marker in large print one letter of the alphabet, a total of 33 letters.
• The board (plywood) is drawn into rectangles 5x8 centimeters in size so that it contains 33 rectangles.
• A neck with a thread from the bottle is glued in the corner of each rectangle, applying glue to the protruding rim from below. Next to the glued neck of a bottle in a rectangle write the same font as on the cork, the letter of the alphabet.
• Repeat the same 32 more times, to the last letter of the alphabet.
• Corks with letters written on them are placed in a box. The child takes out any of the corks with the letter of the alphabet from the box, finds a rectangle with the same letter on the board and wraps the cork in the neck of a bottle with thread.

A knitted scarf-snood, which is very popular among young people, can be a good gift for a sister for her 16th birthday. Snood is a scarf with no beginning or end. It is worn in expanded form or folded by a figure of eight. Tie snood is not difficult for a person with knitting skills.

Acrylic yarn, the main properties of which are strength and light fastness, is preferred for knitting. The added natural fibers will enhance the quality of the yarn, adding heat and volume.

For the anniversary of the sister, you can do it yourself album of memories. For its design, appropriate photos are selected, accompanied by poems, notes, comments. Everything that is important for the birthday girl can be used to create the album. For the future book of memoirs, thick sheets of paper are selected, which are connected together using a hole punch and braid. The album will be decorated with a colorfully designed cover.

You can cook something tasty.

It is impossible to imagine a children's holiday without sweets. A sweet present can be presented to a child in an unusual way, turning this moment into a fun event called “Guess”. Both a birthday girl and guests can participate in it.

In a large vase standing on the table, sweet “snacks” (sweets, bars, chocolates) are stacked. The participant of the game is invited to see what lies in the vase, then blindfolded to find the favorite version of "delicious".

As a sweet present you can present a birthday cake with a delicious home-made cake that will please not only her, but also those around her.

Honey cake is a win-win option. The components that make up the cake:

• egg - 3 pcs.;
• sugar - 2/3 cup;
• honey - 5-6 tablespoons;
• butter - 150 g;
• flour - 3-4 glasses;
• soda - 1 teaspoon.

The composition of the cream:

• sour cream - 0.5 kg (better than store, medium fat);
• sugar - 1 cup;
• honey - 2 teaspoons.

Components are connected in a specific sequence.

• Beat eggs with sugar until white with a mixer, add softened butter, mix again.
• Add soda to the heated honey, mix, add the resulting mass to a mixture of eggs and sugar. Add flour a little while mixing, knead soft dough.
• Divide the dough into 5 parts. In a greased form, bake one cake each.
• Beat with a mixer sour cream, add sugar and honey. Prepare crumbs from one cake.
• Coat the cakes with cream, fold, coat the sides of the cake, sprinkle the whole product with crumbs, stand the finished cake in the refrigerator for 4-5 hours.

Sweet fruit in a basket woven with their own hands from a paper rod will become a wonderful decoration on the birthday table.

The main reason for the popularity of this type of needlework is the cheapness and accessibility of the basic material. You can give a second life to old magazines and newspapers, which are in abundance in every home. Practical and beautiful products, as well as toys and souvenirs are made from paper vines.

Weaving was mastered by people many hundreds of years ago, in addition to practical benefits, it is still useful in the field of therapy: it has a calming effect, relieves stress. Having spent a little time on mastering the technique of weaving from newspaper vines, you can give your sister a double present for her birthday: present a practical thing in the form of a basket woven with her own hands, a memorable souvenir from the same material, and hold a training workshop on weaving for her.

The technique of making paper vines is simple - even a beginner will master it.

• The bottom edge of the newspaper sheet wraps around the knitting needle.
• Paper continues to wind up to the opposite edge. It is gently glued to the tube and the needle is pulled out.
• One edge of the tube is wider than the other. The narrow edge of the next tube is inserted into the wide end of the previous one. Thus, it is possible to weave a vine of any length.
• If a monophonic canvas is selected, the tubes are painted in different colors at will.

You can give the birthday girl an additional “portion” of mood on this day in another way. It is recommended to make paper crafts using the origami technique with her. You can offer your little sister the option of a little angel. To do this, you will need:

• sheet of paper (A4 format);
• scissors, stationery glue;
• water color paints, brush;
• face painted angel.

Craft is carried out in strict sequence.

• A strip of paper with a width of 1.5 centimeters is cut from the long side of the sheet, an accordion with faces with a width of 0.5 centimeters is made of it.
• A sheet of paper is folded with an accordion with 1 centimeter edges.
• At a distance of 1/3 of the sheet, an accordion 1 cm wide is glued on top, creating a constriction.
• Stretch the upper accordion (halo), glue the ends to the lower accordion (dress).
• An “face” of an angel is glued over the banner, a collar is made of a small accordion and glued under the “face”.
• A halo strip, a collar and the lower edge of the dress are highlighted with gold or yellow paint, the rest is painted in any desired color.

And a few more memorable gifts with your own hands.

A small souvenir added to the gifts will become a source of pleasant memories for the child about the holiday. Such souvenirs can be made independently from simple salt dough. The basic recipe is the only one for all cases. It is taken:

• 2 egg whites;
• 2 tablespoons of Extra salt;
• 1 cup flour.

A dense, elastic dough is kneaded. The consistency of the test depends on the size of the eggs - the flour is taken a little less or a little more. You can sculpt everything that the fantasy tells you - it can be figures of animals, birds, fish and other objects.

Bake "souvenirs" at low temperatures. Finished crafts are painted with watercolors, and after drying, the paints are covered with several layers of colorless varnish. If over time, from frequent rubbing, the product becomes unsightly, it is covered with a new layer of varnish. The value of the idea lies in the fact that the child can take an active part in creating such a souvenir, and this will bring him no less joy than receiving it.

In the sister’s room, one of the walls can be decorated with home-made panels made of newspaper tubes connected by a weaving method. The ends of the tubes are not cut off - this is the whole charm of the product. The height of the panel can be any, depending on what is planned to be placed on it. You can place on the panel a piece of a fancifully curved root or a composition of dried flowers or branches.

Weaving is carried out using colored threads and paper glue.

• Cut out from a thick sheet of paper a shape that is suitable for the future panel in size.
• The tubes at the bottom are gently glued to the mold at a distance of 3-5 cm from each other - it is better to apply the adhesive pointwise. Details are arranged in accordance with the intended pattern or pattern.
• With colored threads, the tubes are intertwined with each other - it turns out a bright, original craft.

In the form of a memorable souvenir to the gifts for the birthday girl, you can add a small craft from a newspaper vine in the form of a heart.

• The tube from the newspaper is folded in the shape of a heart and the wire is threaded into it.
• One of the ends of the vine is attached with glue to the frame. Further, with a newspaper tube, they wrap the form in a chaotic manner.
• The finished product is coated with paint and decorated at its discretion.

Masterpieces created with their own hands will give the sister the opportunity to feel loved and needed, and will also make the atmosphere in the house warm and cozy.

The original idea of ​​a homemade gift for a sister is given in the video below.