Mom is the closest person in everyone’s life. Therefore, the birthday, and Mother's Day, and March 8 - a great occasion to please your beloved mother with surprises. Best of all, the most necessary words and worthy deeds will express love, and a gift will be a great pleasant addition, especially if it is made with your own hands. It is in such a gift that the whole soul and love is invested, even if it turned out to be not the most elegant and presentable. Consider 11 ideas on how to make a gift for mom with your own hands.
Pleasant goodies
The most pleasant, or maybe even a simple gift is to prepare an interesting dish with your own hands. And it doesn’t matter what it will be - a cake, cake or meat in French. The simplest, but no less tasty option is charlotte.
The ingredients can be found in the refrigerator of every housewife:
- sugar (1 cup);
- eggs (4 pieces);
- flour (1 cup);
- apples (1 kg);
- a pinch of salt;
- half a teaspoon of soda.
Cooking takes no more than half an hour:
- Beat egg whites with half a glass of sugar.
- Beat the remaining sugar with the yolk.
- Stir the resulting ingredients with flour, salt and soda.
- Prepare a mold, grease it with oil.
- Put apples on a baking sheet, pour the resulting mass.
- Send to the oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake for half an hour.
If desired, you can decorate the cake with bright sprinkles, coconut flakes or fresh berries. Mother's Day is a great occasion to make such a gift with your own hands.
Homemade postcard or wall newspaper
And do not be surprised, even the most simple and seemingly banal gift can be a real surprise. When the budget is limited, to make a gift for mom from paper with your own hands is the best solution. What if you turn your fantasy on to the maximum? For example, you can decorate a card with flowers made in the quilling style. Usually this word scares beginners, but the technique seems complicated only at first glance, if you look, it becomes clear that even a small child will cope with such colors.
What is needed for this? Double-sided colored paper, toothpicks, scissors, glue.
If you carefully follow the instructions, then an incredibly beautiful postcard for mom is provided.
So let's get started:
- Prepare 0.5 cm wide green paper cut into strips. Wrap one of the strips around the toothpick and hold for a few seconds to make the paper curl. Next, the curled strip should be removed, glue one end of the strip to the other.
- From the obtained swirling mug from the strip, you need to make peculiar leaves. To do this, holding the circle on one side, it should be gently squeezed on the other. Prepare at least five leaves.
- After the leaves are prepared, you can do and flowers. Prepare strips of colored paper 3.5 centimeters wide. The resulting blanks should be folded four times and cut the paper into thin strips, in no case reaching the edge, leaving about 0.5 centimeters. Paper should be cut only on one side to get a kind of fringe.
- Prepare orange or yellow paper for the core of the flower. Cut strips 0.5 cm wide. One of them should be twisted strongly and fixed with glue. Next, the lower end of the fringe should be glued around the core.
- After the end of the fringe strip is fixed with glue, you need to straighten the petals outward using a toothpick. And voila! The flower is ready. They can be made as much as you need for postcards, in different sizes and colors.
- To create a postcard, you can use ordinary thick cardboard, on which you need to glue flowers and write the most pleasant words.
If the choice fell on the wall newspaper, then there are no restrictions, use your imagination to the fullest. These can be drawings, photographs, applications, which are accompanied by a large number of wishes and pleasant words.
Predictive Jar
Do you think what a gift you can give your mother with your own hands? The most pleasant and easiest gift to make is a predictive jar. To do this, you will need an ordinary jar of any shape and size, paper and a wide variety of items for decoration: ribbons, appliqués, stickers and everything that the soul desires. A4 sheets should be divided into many small pieces of paper and write a prediction on each of them. For example: "Today, happy news awaits you." Every day, your mother will be able to get only one piece of paper from the can, and what is written on it will certainly come true. Such a simple gift will cheer you up all year.
Homemade vase
Making a birthday present for mom with your own hands is not an easy task. However, such an option as a vase from a jar can be realized even by a child.
And you will need for this the usual liter glass jar, paint, photography. Proceed:
- First, cut out a rectangle from cardboard to fit the selected photo. Using double-sided tape, glue the resulting piece of cardboard to the central part of the can.
- Next, paint the jar with the selected color. It is desirable in several layers, so that the color is more saturated.
- After the paint dries, you can safely remove the cardboard - in its place there will be a transparent window, where you will need to stick the photo of your choice with adhesive tape.
A beautiful gift for mom is done with her own hands. Such a vase will be a great memory and an interesting piece of decor.
DIY bathroom bombs
Want to give your mom a rest and complete relaxation? It is time to turn to home-made bathroom bombs, which can be done with your own hands without problems. Sea salt, essential oils and other useful components of the bomb have a beneficial effect on the skin, and the seething effect, which is achieved through soda, will create a real jacuzzi from the bathroom. What will be needed for this:
- 10 tablespoons of baking soda;
- 5 tbsp. tablespoons of citric acid;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sea salt;
- any essential oil that has a pleasant aroma and beneficial properties is approximately 20 drops.
- 1 teaspoon of olive oil;
- dried herbs, for example lavender, sage, mint.
- form for bombs;
- gloves
- glass container.
We start by mixing citric acid, soda, dye and sea salt. Without fail to a homogeneous mass. Next we add the essential and olive oils, as well as dried herbs. If everything was done correctly, you should get a homogeneous mixture that molds well. If suddenly the mass turned out friable - add a little water.
From the mixture obtained, it is necessary to mold “snowballs” and ram them into the prepared form. These may be old egg containers, children's toys, etc.
The balls should dry for at least 20 minutes. Bombs removed from the molds should not crumble. So useful and pretty bath bombs are ready. You can make them in different colors and please mom on March 8th.
Bag of good mood
Another gift idea for mom with her own hands is a bag of good mood. One of the most original and simple gifts that are easy to create with your own hands. What should be done?
- To do this, you need a ready-made bag or you can sew it yourself.
- Choose your favorite mom's candy.
- Print wishes and cut them out. Dimensions should be small, no more than candy.
- Wishes should be glued with double-sided tape to sweets or use a stapler for this.
- Put the received candy-wishes in a bag of good mood.
An original gift for mom with your own hands is ready! Great mood for mom is provided. Minimum cost - maximum pleasant experience.
Sweet flowers
Peonies with a secret inside in the form of sweets are a great example of a craft that will be a great gift for mom with your own hands. It takes no more than 30 minutes to create such a gift, and if you get the hang of it, it will go twice as fast. If you make a peony large, you can even present it as an independent gift, and if you make several flowers of such colors, you get a real bouquet that can not even be distinguished from real peonies from afar. What will be needed in order to create the perfect candy bouquet?
- Corrugated paper, preferably pink and green.
- Sharp scissors.
- Glue.
- Two types of wire: thick and thin.
- Pliers.
- The most delicious candy.
When all the components are ready, you can begin to bring the idea to life. Sequence:
- First you need to take a thick wire and make a loop at the end. In this loop, you will need to wrap the tail from the wrapper and fix the structure with a tape.
- From corrugated paper, 2 strips of different sizes should be cut. One should be several centimeters wider than the candy, and the second should be several times wider than the previous one.
- From strips of corrugated paper you need to cut out the petals, similar to a real peony.
- The corrugated paper petals should be stretched with your fingers so that they assume a convex shape.
- The next step - the resulting petals must be glued to the base of the wire on top of each other, without pressing them to the candy, so that the peony turns out to be magnificent, like a real one.
- Each row should be fixed with wire using pliers, the more petals - the more magnificent our peony will be.
- After the petals are fixed, you need to glue under them the leaves cut out of green paper.
- Also, green corrugated paper need to wrap the flower leg from the bottom up. And voila - the candy peony is ready.
Such a gift to mother with her own hands made of paper will look impressive, and the sweets that will be stored inside the peonies will always cheer you up.
Video clip
In the world of modern technology, a great gift for mom with her own hands is a video. To create it, you can use the photographs of your mother, starting from childhood and ending with this birthday. You can invite all guests to take a picture and immediately complete the video with a common photo. The final version of the video will take 5 minutes to complete. The second option is a show of family photos. Such a gift will be remembered for a long time by both guests and beloved mother. It can be an excellent occasion to take pictures together more often, so that after a few years to replenish the record with a lot of new photos.
Homemade box
Such a gift will be not only a useful thing in the house, but also a wonderful piece of furniture. The box can be used to store the necessary little things or jewelry. Crafts - a gift to mom with her own hands, which will not leave anyone indifferent.
To create a box you will need:
- thick cardboard;
- Toothpicks
- dense threads for knitting;
- beads and ribbons - optional.
A set of so-called ingredients is extremely simple and does not require large financial costs, but the effect is what you need.
Proceed:
- First you need to cut out the desired shape from cardboard. It can be anything, the most popular option is a heart. The size of the box depends on the size of the cardboard used.
- The next step is to insert the toothpicks into the cut cardboard. They should be located tightly to each other, no more than at a distance of one centimeter.
- Half the work is done, the base of the casket is ready. Next, you should take the thread of the selected color and weave yarn through toothpicks.
- You can braid the box with one thread, or you can make several layers with beads by inserting them on toothpicks and then continue to braid the box with threads.
Picture frame
An excellent gift for mom on March 8 with your own hands is a photo frame. On the one hand, such a gift may seem too banal, on the other hand, a handmade gift that carries a memory in the form of a favorite photograph. What could be better? And most importantly, you can draw a frame in absolutely any style using different materials - buttons, shells, beads, flowers, coffee beans and the like.
To create a frame, the easiest way is to use a suitable wooden base or make it yourself from thick cardboard.
Making a gift for mom’s day with your own hands is easier than it sounds, and it will cause even more emotions than a purchased present. The main thing is to choose the best photo for the frame.
Hand made candle
Such a handmade birthday gift for mom will be a great addition to the interior and will decorate any holiday.
To create an original candle you will need:
- large white candles;
- baking paper;
- paints;
- hair dryer.
Only 10 minutes of time - and the original gift for mom is ready.
- Baking paper should be printed. Remember that it will be mirrored on the candle. The picture can be anything you like, find on the open spaces of the Internet a print that your mom will like.
- Attach the patterned paper to the candle and fix it in one position.
- In order for the image to remain on the candle, it should be treated with hot air, for this you need a hairdryer.
The candle as a gift to mom is ready!
How to prepare a gift for mom? What nuances should be taken into account and what criteria should be based on?
We list a few:
- First of all, take into account interests and hobbies. Do not choose the first available option, consider the wishes and dreams of your mother.
- To get off every year with banal and standard presents is at least ugly and certainly demonstrates vivid indifference to the holiday. Do not forget to please mom even with trifles.
- Do not forget about the bouquet. Mom’s favorite flowers for any occasion will be a win-win.
- Before you prepare a gift for your mother with your own hands, remember the little things: your favorite color, a melody that will appeal to her. The more such trifles will be in the gift, the more touching and pleasant it will be for mom to receive it. After all, such things are a manifestation of real concern.
- A postcard is more a necessity than a banality, especially if it is made by one’s own hands.
- Packaging plays an important role. And it’s not at all necessary to spend money on her, a flight of fancy. Colored paper or old wallpaper and voila - the packaging is ready.
- Do not forget about the festive mood, because you can give a gift in different ways. It is important to choose the right moment and create a solemn mood.
- Not sure how to find the right words? It is often difficult for the closest to say words of love, so you can learn a poem or prepare a speech in advance. Such a congratulation will give mom a lot of positive emotions.
- What could be better than pre-cleaning before the holiday? This will help mom relax on her day and go to celebrate with full force.
- Such a surprise as a call on the radio will be a pleasant and unexpected addition to the main gift and will perfectly cheer up both mom and guests.