New Year is a family holiday, shrouded in magic, the radiance of the New Year tree and the closest people nearby. I especially want to express my feelings to my beloved grandmother and great-grandmother, having presented her with such a present that will not only pleasantly surprise, but will also become a warm reminder of the grandchildren’s sincere love.
Of course, the abundance in stores allows you to purchase any gift, taking into account the different financial possibilities. But it’s better to make a New Year’s gift for your grandmother with your own hands, investing a piece of soul and endless gratitude to your loved one.
Get inspired by original ideas and start preparing an unforgettable New Year's surprise for your beloved granny today!
Interesting ideas for crafts from the smallest
When choosing a creative idea for a gift, start from the age of the donor first of all. If you yourself have already become parents and are considering how to please your grandmother with a child, suggest that the baby create New Year's application, an interesting postcard. From the smallest, it’s incredibly touching and pleasant to receive as a gift drawing in any technique: paints, pencils, fingers, palms and even legs. Incredibly gentle look cards, where there are fingerprints of the pens or legs of babies indicating their age.
Another unusual gift option that uses directly handmade work - in the literal sense of the word - This is a Christmas tree made of palm-shaped paper. You yourself will get a lot of pleasure from joint creativity and for a moment return to childhood!
With older children, you can perform different small masterpieces.
- Paper cake with good wishes or sweets inside.
- 3D postcards from paper.
- Snowmen made of thread or socks.
- From pasta you can create real works of art from simple figurines to entire services.
- To think over the text and print “Diploma to beloved grandmother” or “Honorary diploma to the most wonderful great-grandmother”.
- Draw a wall newspaper with funny comments, drawings and photographs of all family members.
- All grandmothers, by virtue of their position, are excellent cooks and experimenters in the kitchen. To make edible masterpieces even tastier, give your chef special equipment: sew a white apron and decorate it with the children. It can be drawings with waterproof paint or lace decor, beautiful buttons.
- Thematic crafts from plasticine, salt dough, clay.
- If you live far away, and your grandmother rarely sees grandchildren and great-grandchildren, write down for her New Year's audio or video greetings. If your baby is just starting to talk, write down his cute babble, first tale or rhyme by heart. For grandmother, this will be a wonderful gift that will delight her every day.
There is an expression that children can be different, but grandchildren are always perfect! Therefore, any present from the baby will delight a loving grandmother.
Handmade from adult grandchildren
With age, each of us realizes how dear our grandmother is, how much she has done for us. I want to give her the whole world and show my gratitude. If you are fond of scrapbooking, then family album or family tree will be a great gift. Embody the story of your family in an exclusive scrapbook, lovingly choosing photos, postcards, newspaper clippings, letters.
For those who knit, a wide field of activity opens up. If the grandmother is young, active, attends exhibitions, theaters, lace stole, openwork bactus or a popular set with snud it will be most welcome. Warm socks with winter patterns, goat down shawl they will warm you on cold evenings and will always remind you of your beloved granddaughter. If you have enough time and yarn, a luxury gift will be set of bedspreads with decorative pillows.
You can embroider warm words on a pillow or order photo printing on fabric. And if you like to embroider with beads or threads, create a beautiful picture in accordance with the preferences of your beloved grandmother, and order a worthy frame in the baguette workshop. Those who are engaged in home cosmetics or candle making can create aromatic composition, bath bombs, cream with a pleasant smell.
Curly trending now gingerbread cookies covered with ice and hand-painted. From gingerbread cookies you can create an edible Christmas tree or a beautiful house. If there is no time and inspiration - gingerbread cookies can be ordered from the master, having previously thought through a unique design. Continuing the theme of man-made sweets, one cannot but mention cakes. You can independently learn the basics of creating mastic and cream cakes, there would be a desire.
When choosing a gift for your beloved grandmother for the New Year, remember the main thing - hurry to please her not only for the holiday, saying the main words, giving attention every day!
See how to make a funny New Year’s secret postcard with your own hands in the next video.