As contemplative as the Christmas season is, the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping can really get on your nerves. Despite good planning, it is not always possible to find the right thing for all friends. And even if the colleaguesExchange gifts, it can get really stressful. The next DIY ideas for small Christmas presents offer a solution. Homemade items appear personal, are usually sustainable and are particularly well received at Christmas.
The homemade Christmas gifts are creative and can easily be adapted to the recipient's interests. It is much easier to find a suitable gift, especially with friends. Gifts that fit the Christmas theme are particularly well received by colleagues. A nice scented candle, felt Christmas tree decorations, various salt mixtures or maybeChristmas potpourri: There are no limits to your own imagination.
Make small Christmas presents for friends and colleagues: make your own tea tree
If your friends are tea lovers, then you can surprise them with Christmas trees made of tea bags. This craft idea is super easy and even novice enthusiasts will have no problem making it. You can combine different types of tea. The tea Christmas tree is ideal as a souvenir if you are invited to dinner.
You will need a Styrofoam or foam cone, hot glue, disposable cardboard cups, and rice. First, fill the disposable cup with rice. Then start gluing the tea bags to the cone. You should cover it completely. Then cut a star out of colored cardstock and attach it to the top of the cone. Now all that's left is to glue the disposable cup to the bottom of the cone. Complete!
Gift ideas for friends: painting porcelain
The next gift goes well with the tea Christmas tree. You need simple white porcelain dishes and a matching porcelain brush pen. Draw tea bags and spoons, let the paint dry, and then fire the dishes. Strictly follow the instructions on the brush pen packaging to ensure that the paint does not smear.
Make your own small Christmas presents for colleagues: pour scented candles
We have already given you several ideas on how toPouring candlescan. A scented candle is also easy to make. For the next idea, you will need a jar, a wax mix (craft supplies), fragrance oil of your choice, a candle wick, a pot, two plastic cups, two wooden shish kebab skewers, green food coloring, and a clean and empty container. First fill 2 liters of water into the pot and heat it, then remove the pot from the heat. Pour some wax into the can and place the can in the pot. Melt the wax in a water bath. In the meantime, cut the wick, tie it to a shish kebab skewer and place it over the glass. Pour the melted wax into the two plastic cups. Add food coloring to one cup and color the wax green. Then pour the green mass into the glass, add several drops of fragrance oil and let the wax dry. To make it go faster, you can keep the candle cold. The green wax layer should be completely dry before you can fill the white wax into the glass. Repeat the process until the jar is full.
Make small edible Christmas presents yourself: Santa Claus sleigh made from a matchbox
Make a sleigh out of matchboxes and fill it with candy. You will need: matchboxes, decorative Christmas-themed tape and candy. See more candy gift ideasin this article.
Make unusual Christmas presents: wine stoppers for friends
For the next craft idea you need screw figures. You can order new screw-on figurines from a trophy manufacturer or find a vintage trophy at a flea market. Simply stick the screw figures onto wine corks. If necessary, spray the figure with metallic spray and you're done! If you wish, you can design a label in Photoshop, print it out and stick it on the bottle.
Make your own Christmas presents: felt Christmas tree decorations for your colleagues
If you want to do it quickly, you can make small decorative figures out of felt or buy them ready-made and arrange them in walnut shells. The creative Christmas decorations in small format are ready!
Christmas gift ideas for colleagues: Make your own spice salts
Hot, aromatic or perhaps fresh: there is the right seasoning salt for every dish. Surprise your friends orcolleagues with homemade onesaromatic salts.
Make small Christmas presents: Last minute DIY for friends
Do you urgently need a last minute gift? Then you can make a snowflake out of wooden clothespins. Wood can be easily painted with acrylic paints, you can also use paint spray or wood varnish. Let the paint dry and then put the snowflake together.
Make your own last-minute Christmas presents for family and colleagues: Potpourri
At Christmas we bake, cook and do crafts with natural materials. Anyone who has cinnamon sticks, fresh pine branches or star anise at home can make their own potpourri. All you have to do is arrange or layer the materials in a clean mason jar. Our tip: The branches of the noble fir and Siberian spruce exude a particularly strong scent.
Make small Christmas presents for your colleagues
It doesn't necessarily have to be a big gift. Homemade wooden pendants are guaranteed to get your colleagues in the Christmas spirit.
Make small Christmas presents: cell phone case with a Christmas motif
Do you have bare leather at home? Then you can print out the template on flex film, place it on the leather and iron it between two sheets of baking paper using a transfer press.
Make your own Christmas presents for your colleagues: decorate sugar shakers for Christmas
Fill a large sugar shaker halfway with sugar, place edible Christmas-themed cake decorations on top, and close. The small gift is ready and you can bring it to a friend's pre-Christmas party.
Stylish gift in a small format: make your own soap
You need 500 g of organic curd soap, 100 ml of coconut oil, 20 drops of fragrance oils of your choice and suitable silicone molds. First melt the soap in a water bath, stir in the coconut oil and add 10 to 20 drops of fragrance oils. Pour the liquid soap into the molds and let them dry. Our tip: Choose silicone molds with seasonal motifs. Onecool packagingmakes the gift something special.
Christmas presents for colleagues: make a snow globe
Making a snow globe for Christmas is indeed a very easy task. All you need is distilled water, baby oil, fake snow, glitter particles, a bottle brush and a jam jar.
Decorate lanterns for Christmas and give them away
Even a simple white candle in a glass can become a beautiful present with the right decoration. You can give the candle Christmas charm with seasonal natural materials, decorative ribbons, etc.
We then offer you three more DIY ideas for beautiful gifts for Christmas.
Gift ideas for colleagues: Christmas decorations made from salt dough
Gift ideas for colleagues: bells made from muffin tins and metal Christmas tree balls
Decorative pillow with white bow and pine branches
