Is New Year coming soon ? Everyone can make gifts with their own hands for the holiday. You just need to find the area in which you can apply your skills. Do not think that a thing made by yourself will look bad. After all, you will spend time and effort on its manufacture. And this fact will certainly be highly appreciated by a concerned person.
Goodies
One of the options for a New Year’s gift made with your own hands can be baking. You can make a great cake. For example, bake Napoleon. Many people think that creating a culinary masterpiece is difficult. Nothing like this. Making a cake is time-consuming, but there is nothing complicated in the recipe. If you want to surprise your friends, you can present them a gingerbread house. Creating such a culinary masterpiece is not difficult. Find the gingerbread recipe, bake large cakes and cut the figures according to pre-drawn patterns. You can fasten the workpieces with each other using glaze. It, by the way, can be bought at any candy store. Using a pastry bag, you can create fancy jewelry. If the above gift options seem too complicated for you, bake cookies. Even an inexperienced cook can do this. You can decorate funny figures with the help of confectionery glaze or whipped cream.
Candles and candlesticks
DIY gifts for the New Year can be decorative. These gifts are especially popular with girls. You can make candles yourself. Of what? From wax or paraffin. It can be purchased at needlework stores. Melt the wax and add color pigment to it. Then pour the liquid into silicone molds, insert the wick in the center and wait until the substance hardens. You can decorate such a candle with the help of cinnamon sticks, spruce branches or coffee.
What else can you make a gift for the New Year with your own hands? Candlestick. It can be given with or without a homemade candle. What can a candlestick be made of? Today, crafts of this kind from glasses are popular. To create such a product, you should turn the glass container upside down and make the bottom of the cardboard. Inside the glass you can put a Christmas tree and artificial snow made of polystyrene foam. A candle should be placed on the top of such a candlestick, which will be the leg of the glass.
Wreath on the door
If you like to do needlework, then an excellent New Year's gift made with your own hands will be something symbolic. For example, a wreath on the door. This American jewelry has taken root in Russia. True, our compatriots decorate the door with such wreaths not inside, but outside. Creating such a product is quite simple. You should buy a foam torus or make it from papier-mâché. You can decorate a torus with the help of real spruce branches, as well as with the help of artificial ones. You can even use tinsel for this purpose. Everything will depend on the preferences of the person to whom you plan to give a wreath. If your friend is a practical person, then it is better to give a product made of artificial materials. But the decor of natural branches is suitable for a person who loves vivid impressions.
What, in addition to branches, can decorate a wreath? Dried oranges, cinnamon sticks and Christmas balls. You can also attach snowflakes and even candies to the base. Show your imagination, don't be afraid to be original.
Photo album
Do not know what to present to mom for the New Year? A do-it-yourself gift can be created in just a few hours. Make a photo album. Women are very sentimental, so they like to look at pieces of their past, especially if they are beautifully designed. You can make a photo album from sheets of thick cardboard. Sew them together and then decorate the cover. For this purpose, you can use artificial flowers, beads and even photographs. The interior design of the album may also be original. Attach photos to special corners, and next to each picture you can make a descriptive inscription by hand. The margins of the sheet can be decorated with clippings, drawings, stickers or decorative fittings. But it is not necessary to insert photos into an album. You can make several collages on the first pages, and leave the rest of the sheets blank. Let the owner of the gift fill her album with impressions herself.
Diary
Do you plan to make a gift for a guy for the New Year with your own hands, but can not find a suitable idea? Present him a diary. Such a thing will be appreciated by any man, especially one who likes to plan his life. The diary will be easy to make from any suitable notebook. You should consider organizing notes, divide the paper product into sections, and decorate the cover. But do not get carried away very much. Guys love minimalism. Therefore, it makes no sense to create complex compositions. You can limit yourself to a small picture. The inside of the diary can be decorated with various quotes and thoughts of great people.
How to organize notepad space? Be sure to place the calendar on the first page. Then you can take the section for annual, monthly and daily planning. You should leave pages for writing down ideas and various notes. You can also make a section for your desired purchases and goals.
Soap or scrub
Do you want to make an original gift to your mother for the New Year with your own hands? Present the woman own soap. Today you can buy all the necessary materials for making a gift in any store for creativity. You will need forms, a soap base, flavoring and coloring. Melt the soap base and add color pigment there. Also, any filler can be sent to the liquid mass. It can be coffee, poppy, spruce needles or rose petals. Pour the soap into molds and let it freeze. It remains to remove the product and pack it beautifully.
You can make your own body scrub. It is made on the basis of honey or sugar and shower gel. As a scrubbing substance, you can use coffee or ground grape seeds.
Statuette
One of the original presentations may be the symbol of the year. For example, a dog. A DIY New Year gift made of such a plan will delight your friends. After all, making a figure will be quite difficult. But if you sculpted from clay in childhood, you should have no problems. Of course, giving a plasticine toy is not very presentable. Therefore, a sculpture is better to create from plastic. This material is divided into two types. One needs to be baked in the oven, and the other freezes in the air. The advantage of plastic, which needs heat treatment, is that the colors of the material will be more saturated.
You can create both individual figures and entire compositions. If you are not very good at sculpture, then do not make toys that will claim to be realistic. Make comic figures or funny scenes. They will bring a smile to your friends and will be able to cheer them up all year long.
Jewelry
Girls love beautiful things. Therefore, an excellent gift for a friend will be a jewelry made by yourself. What could it be? Hairpin, earrings or necklace. You know your girlfriend better than others, so you should have an idea of ​​what a girl should like. You can use any materials to create jewelry. For example, beads, threads, wire and even glass. If you are professionally engaged in the manufacture of jewelry, you will not have problems with the choice of equipment. And if you make crafts from time to time, it is better to use such a simple technique as beadwork. Ornaments of such a plan are created as follows. You take a dense base, such as chevron fabric. Cut the outline on the stencil. And then fill it with beads, in accordance with the sketch. Even if you miss somewhere and make an uneven stitch, you will always have the opportunity to rip and remake.
Sweater or socks
You still don’t know how to present a gift for the New Year to dad? With your own hands you can do wonderful things. For example, knit a warm sweater. Your man will be pleased with your care and the fact that you have spent more than one week on the manufacture of something beautiful. If you can’t find the time to knit a complex sweater with deers in your busy schedule, make socks. Woolen warm clothes will warm your beloved man in the winter and will remind him of your love. You can make your girlfriend happy with a hat and scarf. Especially the girl will be glad to receive as a gift things that are perfect for her outerwear.
Champagne
How to make a DIY gift to your girlfriend for the New Year? Decorate a bottle of champagne. This is the most festive drink will be very handy on any New Year's table. How can you make a bottle beautifully? There are many ways to do this. If you are engaged in decoupage, glue the container with napkins. Are you good at sewing? Then you can create a costume of Santa Claus for a bottle. Well, if you are not very good at decorative work, then you can paste the champagne with sweets. For example, create a pineapple from a bottle. Or you can just stick Christmas toys on the bottle in a chaotic manner. Decide for yourself what kind of decor your girlfriend will like and what is best suited to the festive table.
Decorative plates
What can you do yourself? What gift for the New Year to present to a loved one? Make decorative plates. If you are not involved in ceramics, then creating a mold will be a difficult task. Therefore, you can buy large white or transparent plates in any store with dishes. Paint them with acrylic. And what story can I choose? New Year's preferably. It can be snow-covered Christmas trees, a decorated room or Santa Claus with a Snow Maiden. Choose what your friend may like. To fix the result, paint should be covered with acrylic. But keep in mind, such a plate can only be used for fruits or sweets. It is impossible to eat from it, since the drawing can peel off.
Picture
Original gifts for the New Year, made by oneself, are something unique. For example, a painted picture. If you have been communicating with a person for a long time, you know his tastes very well and have an idea of ​​how he would like to see the interior of his own apartment. Therefore, if you have an artistic talent, you can paint a picture in oil. Which plot to choose? You can draw a portrait of the person to whom you present a gift, and it can also be a family portrait. It is advisable not to give landscape paintings with any particular time of year. The winter landscape on the wall will look irrelevant in the summer, and vice versa.
If you don’t know how to draw, but you want to create a picture, you can use various techniques. For example, create a masterpiece using the technique of batik or make an applique of paper.
Sweet christmas present
Do not know what to present? Do-it-yourself gifts for New Year’s sweets will be very simple. There is no point in overpaying for expensive cardboard packaging, because it can be made in just 10 minutes. To do this, you need to draw a pattern and transfer it to a beautiful thick piece of paper. Cut the workpiece, assemble and glue it. It remains to buy assorted sweets and chocolates and fill them with a made casket. If desired, you can put in such a box and something more valuable. For example, you can add a gift with decoration or a good book. And also in the box you can put various notes or mix sweets with Christmas toys, and you can also make them yourself.