It can sometimes mean more to give a gift that you’ve made with your own hands than getting something at a store. When you give them something that they find useful, they will enjoy that gift even more.
If you want to make a gift for a holiday, birthday or any occasion really, we have gathered a few of the most popular handmade gift ideas.
Spa Gift Basket
This isn’t just creating and putting the store bought products together. These ideas are for you to create the products you add to the basket. You need a few supplies but these are easy to make and you will make someone feel super special with these luxurious ideas.
You need a nice basket to put all the supplies in. You probably will need the containers to put the products in after you make them. These different products are easy to make and fun.
A little almond oil, an essential oil of your choosing and some brown sugar are all the ingredients you need to make this full body scrub. Your skin will feel silky smooth after using this.
Some brown sugar and raw honey with a couple drops of lavender oil makes a lip scrub that gets rid of dead skin, helping your lips appear smooth and plump.
Coconut and olive oil along with raw honey and some essential for scent makes a great deep conditioner for the hair.
You can pour these into a few containers, adding some ribbons and bows to give them a fancier look. Place a few decorative terry cloth face towels, a loofah and maybe a back brush in the basket. Put these in the basket and wrap it or add more bows to decorate.
Bracelet
You can create many unique variations of bracelets, especially if you use beads to make them. They are inexpensive and you can find beads, wiring, strings, clasps and charms if you want to add more to them.
Custom Designed Coffee Mug
It’s so easy these days to get plain mugs online. If you want, you can use a stencil and permanent market to design something on it.
There are many sites that you can create your own design with a graphics editor and add it to a coffee mug and get it delivered to you or straight to the recipient of the mug.
These special homemade gift ideas can be used to show the special people in your life how much you really care about them.
Handmade gifts often mean more to the people you give them to because they know you took the time and put your heart into making them something they will treasure.