What kind of gifts can I make for Christmas with my own hands?

Christmas is a holiday that takes almost a whole month of the year. And if in our country the New Year is still perceived with more solemnity and reverence, in the West everyone is waiting for Christmas, they are preparing for the holiday and since the end of autumn they have carefully thought out gifts and surprises for loved ones. If you are also close to the Christmas theme and this holiday you think is special, then preparing gifts for Christmas will also bring great pleasure.

It’s not necessary to buy gifts only in the store: cute, heart-made crafts are absolutely appropriate for Christmas. With a huge number of workshops and photo examples, even a person who considers himself deprived in the sense of artistic skills will be able to create something convincing and festive.

What you should not do:

• Do not give gifts whose value may confuse the person to whom they are intended;
• don’t give things if you are not sure that the donor approves of such a choice (for example, it is not forbidden to give perfume for Christmas, but if you don’t know the preferences of your loved one, this gift will be risky);
• Do not give what is associated with black humor, the symbolism of devilism, etc.
• Do not give gifts that oblige a person to make a reciprocal gesture.

There are situations when you should not reinvent the wheel. Sweet holiday symbols are always worth considering. Before the holiday, souvenirs are sold everywhere, and if you think that the recipient will like these things, you can buy them. A gift does not have to be expensive, elegantly designed, with a claim to great gratitude.

Most people on this day exchange souvenirs, unassuming trinkets, which, however, can decorate the house and create a favorable mood.

Of paper, felt, beads - a lot of options. Probably no other image is so associated with Christmas as the image of an angel. It's nice to get a personal guardian angel at the end of the old year (or at the beginning of the new one, depending on what kind of Christmas you are celebrating).

Children can mold an angel from plasticine, for this it is better to purchase special material. It lends itself perfectly to decorating, and the finished angel will look like a thing from a souvenir shop. Recall that modeling develops fine motor skills and stimulates the receptors responsible for the development of speech centers (they are located at the fingertips). You can make an angel if you follow the master class step by step.

Little tricks for making paper angels:

• so that the figure looks more festive, you can sprinkle the finished work with children's hair spray with sparkles;
• it is easy to find stickers in the form of beads and pebbles on sale (also sold in the departments of children's creativity), they are well fixed on paper and perfectly cope with their decorative task;
• Use not plain white paper, but design paper - sets are sold in bookstores and in the departments of creativity (such paper often has an attractive texture, and its strength exceeds the album sheet).

A great gift option, because candles, although never out of fashion, are nevertheless experiencing another rise in popularity. And this is not just a boom, but the conscious need of a modern person to surround himself with natural, warm light. Candles are often called a sacred thing: their soft glow makes them remove vanity, think, keep silent, and pray.

There is even scientific research proving that an evening spent in the candlelight helps relieve psychological discomfort.

What can a candlestick be made of:

• from a spool with very thick, strong threads;
• from a very thick branch, inside which the candlestick (metal) will be located;
• from an ordinary glass jar.

The latter option seems as simple and attractive as possible. If you have a jar of baby food, PVA glue, sea salt, thin lace braid, consider that the candlestick is half ready. You need to cover a clean jar with PVA glue and sprinkle (generously) with salt. Part of it will subside, but one that will remain enough to form a “snowy” candlestick.

Tie a braid at the base of the neck. Instead of braid, you can use a thin satin ribbon. Sometimes a ribbon with a Christmas wish is tied to a ribbon.

When the beautiful candlestick is ready, you can practice making candles with your own hands.But if you are afraid of such experiments, you can transform beyond recognition the ordinary thick white household candles.

Take, for example, decoupage. Before the holidays, shops sell napkins with New Year and Christmas motifs: they are perfect for decorating using decoupage technique.

You can also decorate candles:

• coffee beans;
• beads;
• sequins;
• spruce twigs, cinnamon sticks and miniature cones;
• sprigs of mountain ash or viburnum;
• lace.

Candles for which a “sweater” is knitted also look original. If you are a beginner in knitting, then even in the most primitive way you can knit a fluffy outfit for a candle, decorating it with a New Year's button.

No holiday is complete without postcards! You can give loved ones handmade postcards. Handcrafting is at a premium today, so it’s worth picking up paints and trying your hand. Small watercolor sketches for the holiday theme will delight relatives and friends.

It will be very nice if you want to show your skills in lettering using postcards. This is the art of beautifully, aethetically signing letters, invitations, cards, etc. Something very close to calligraphy. Lettering courses are incredibly popular today: people of different ages take up fountain pens and try to bring out each letter without putting a blot.

For a friend, grandmother, sister, a picture painted by you personally will become a pleasant Christmas present. Let it be thematic, it's great when every year in a certain season you get festive decor from the mezzanines and your picture will be its integral attribute.

But it is not necessary to strictly follow the festive theme. For example, your dad loves the sea very much - draw a picturesque sunset for him, accompany the picture with a beautiful, inspiring signature. Your work will surely find a place in the giftee's house (and in his soul, too).

Maybe you have long wanted to try your hand at drawing, but there was no case. Catch it - the festive atmosphere will give strength and confidence. And if it’s still scary, start with the “draw by number” technique.

In winter, everyone wants warmth, comfort, a feeling of slowly spinning soft snow in the shower. Knitted clothes are strongly associated with all this. Crochet or knitting is not so important. Will it be warm socks for mom or a scarf for dad, a sweater for a beloved man - the main thing is that this is a homemade, cute and very necessary gift.

It is not so difficult to beat the theme of winter: bullfinches, white bunnies, deer - all this accompanies the main idea of ​​the holiday.

It all depends on your initial skills. If you are “on you” with needlework, do not take complex designs and techniques that require skill. Make a souvenir from felt - many cute crafts can be sewn by hand, it is not necessary to grind the edges of the fabric. Gorgeous horses from felt, gingerbread, Christmas trees turn out smart. And the material itself is inexpensive. An additional decor to such crafts can serve as beads.

Not everyone understands how many beautiful gizmos can be made from paper. Embossed, textured, corrugated, metallized, designer - the choice of paper in the shops for creativity is so great that already at the time of purchase several ideas may appear in your head.

Conventional, it would seem, materials find a new solution, rethinking. For example, you can give your parents a plasticine picture for Christmas. If you buy a special plasticine with many shades, then the picture will be incredibly beautiful. True, this is not a quick matter, so you need to start work long before the holiday.

Or maybe you want to make a do-it-yourself napkin for a festive table? Otherwise, such a product is called a mini-tablecloth. If the table is rectangular, it lies exactly in the middle of it, it can even hang from two sides in length, it takes less than a third of the table in width or a little more. The napkin is often made two-sided: the first side, for example, with a Christmas motif, the second - with a winter, more neutral one. Cozy, beautiful and original!

Making gifts with your own hands is no less pleasant than presenting them. It’s difficult to compare many fashionable and expensive purchased things in the energy sector with simpler, but hand-made presentations.

See how to make a wonderful Christmas present with your own hands in the next video.