The best small symbolic gifts for the New Year

The New Year is a magical and wonderful time when we all, young and old, live in anticipation of some kind of miracle, and expect from this holiday fulfillment of our cherished dreams. With the approaching New Year's days, each of us thinks about what to give to our family and friends.

I would like to please you with a gift and pay attention to each of these people dear to us, so small New Year's presents and souvenirs will be excellent helpers in this matter. For a gift to be liked, of course, it is necessary to take into account age and gender differences, but it will be useful to know in advance what a person is interested in, what is interesting to him.

Let's talk in more detail about how not to go crazy in the New Year's mess and find nice souvenirs for loved ones.

Symbolic gifts for the New Year are best planned. Some enterprising people buy small souvenirs all year long, and as soon as they come across something really interesting, they immediately buy it and put it off until the moment when they will make a congratulation. Thus, the financial burden on holidays will not be too burdensome for you, and you will always know what to give.

Women love pleasant scents, and you don’t have to buy expensive perfumes - you can please them aroma lamp, fragrant handmade soap, beautifully designed collection of aromatic herbs for tea. Many representatives of the fair sex are passionate about female needlework, and here the scope for choosing a souvenir is simply endless, and in order to facilitate the task, try to know in advance what she would like to receive as a gift.

For men, a gift should be of practical value. It can be pleasant little things that he can use in relation to his hobby, at work, at home, in nature. As a rule, men really appreciate humor, so sometimes the best gifts for them are These are small souvenirs with a humorous connotation.

In many ways, the subject of a gift for men is determined by their age. Young people will be happy with modern devices for a computer, game console or phone. And the representative of the older generation will gladly accept a good book or a beautiful cigarette case as a gift.

The easiest way to choose a gift for a child. Children enjoy new toys, sweets, board games, sets for creativity, books with fairy tales.

An excellent topic for finding a New Year's souvenir can be the symbol of the year on the Chinese calendar. As you know, every year in this eastern calendar symbolizes one or another animal. Gifts with such a symbol on the eve of the New Year holidays can be found without difficulty, and they are intended for both adults and children.

For adults, you can give such nice little things as a towel with the symbol of the year, a sofa cushion, a mug with a picture, fridge magnets, a beautiful wall calendar or a diary for the coming year, soft cute little animals toys to relieve stress. Children will be able to enjoy sweet candy sets packed inside a soft toy symbolizing the coming year.

Perhaps, for a person of any age, a good and win-win gift will be some decoration for the christmas tree.

On the eve of the holiday, people are very happy with the set of hand-painted Christmas balls, an unusual garland, a beautiful table composition of twigs, cones, beads. It can be handmade jewelry - from felt, clay with painting, papier-mâché - the scope for creativity and imagination in this direction is unlimited.

Even a box with fireworks in the form of a small gift these days will be very handy - After all, on New Year's Eve, adults briefly turn into big children, and they like to launch holiday fireworks, forgetting about their very important matters and problems for a while.

Candles can become an original gift for a New Year's holiday. Only they must be unusual - for example, in the form of some figures, unusual flowers, imitation of fruit. Candles with a festive theme applied to their surface look very beautiful - it can be some kind of cute winter landscape, a plot with characters or just a collage with New Year's attributes. The candle can be packaged in a beautiful wrapper or presented in an unusual candlestick. Can now be found on sale scented candles - this option will also be very appropriate for the festive occasion.

A cute souvenir for the New Year can be red Santa Claus hat, hair hoop imitating deer ears and horns, magician hat, Elf wings. Such things are quite inexpensive, but their delivery can be very fun to beat, creating a good mood for everyone.

Small but pleasant little things will be a great gift for colleagues, friends, neighbors. There are ideas for universal symbolic gifts that all adults will welcome:

• beautiful and unusual notebook for notes;
• a set of chocolates or marmalade;
• photo frame with original design;
• keychain or key keeper in the hallway;
• aromatic tea or coffee in a beautiful package;
• champagne glasses;
• a small cup and saucer, made in the same style, for coffee or a little larger in size - for tea;
• a small night lamp, for example, in the form of a snowman, Christmas tree, Santa Claus;
• gingerbread cookies or homemade cake - all this can be packaged in multi-colored foil or box;
• table figurine or candle in the form of a symbol of the year;
• computer flash card;
• miniature live thuja in a pot or the main symbol of Christmas and New Year - a real poinsettia.

All these items can be purchased shortly before the holiday, as it is at this time that their choice is the most diverse, and the prices are low.

Sweet souvenirs are another win-win option that will appeal to both children and adults. You can buy ready-made sweets or make them yourself.

The idea of ​​delicious gifts includes various options:

• Christmas gingerbread cookies with nuts and dried fruits - they can be in the form of a heart, Christmas tree, bear, crescent or represent the symbol of the year. Gingerbread cookies can be coated with glaze, sprinkle with chopped nuts, and decorate with chocolate patterns. Gingerbread cookies can be made small in size and pack a few in beautiful jars or boxes. And you can make one big gingerbread and wrap it with transparent mica or wrap it in bag paper and dress it with beautiful ribbons. There are many packaging options - it all depends on your taste, desire and capabilities.
• Fairytale Gingerbread House - This unusual design is made from gingerbread, cookies, sweets, marmalade. It is worth noting that in its manufacture you need to have at least minimal skills and abilities for the manufacture of confectionery. Of course, such a gift will make a splash - because it is very unusual and beautiful.
• Candy composition - sweets can be arranged in the form of a bouquet, a ball (called a topiary), an elegant basket, improvise some kind of fruit, for example, pineapple. If the gift is intended for an adult, then in this composition you can add a bottle of champagne - it can be hidden under sweets or, conversely, become the central element around which sweets will be located.
• Fruit composition - on the eve of the New Year holidays, tangerines appear on store shelves from which you can make a beautiful composition - a Christmas tree or topiary. Tangerines can be combined with walnuts, sweets, small bows, toys. It is worth noting that the preparation of such a gift should not wait long for the moment of delivery, since tangerines can deteriorate.
• Jam, jam, honey - such a gift can be prepared in advance and packaged in beautiful jars, made nice stickers, possibly even targeted ones and with wishes for the New Year. Raspberry jam, jam from oranges, lemons, apricots looks beautiful. Even a beautifully designed jar of honey will be a welcome gift. Walnuts or candied fruits can be added to honey.
• Chocolate - This product is loved by both adults and children. Chocolate can be given in almost any form - it can be chocolate bars, sweets, figures. The main thing is to pack such a gift beautifully.
• Cakes - those who know how to bake cakes, you can not rack their brains over the gift.Eclairs, baskets, meringues, profiteroles, bush - will not leave anyone indifferent. They can be packaged in a beautiful box, a basket, put on a dish and wrapped in transparent mica. The gift is wonderful, but its implementation period is limited.

Sweet gifts can be purchased in the finished version. - it can be a set of assorted sweets in a festive packaging, a box of chocolates, a beautifully decorated box of marshmallows or marmalade, cookies in a tin can with a New Year theme.

Small souvenirs or unusual surprises can become pleasant gifts for the New Year. Those who have the skills of decoupage, scrapbooking, modeling from polymer clay, felting or other types of handicraft will not be very laborious to make New Year mini-gifts for loved ones and relatives.

You can come up with other nice types of congratulations:

• movie tickets, bowling, billiards;
• musical card with verses of his own composition;
• mini collage of photos;
• small pot with seeds of Provence herbs for germination;
• aromatic sachet with dried flower petals;
• invitation to the rink, tubing.

Even a small souvenir will leave a good memory in a person’s soul if presented with sincere and kind wishes. Try not to forget anyone in these hectic and fun days - it is very important for any person to realize that they remember him, love and appreciate him.

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