Do you want to pleasantly surprise a loved one? Give him a handmade present! An unusual and well-made thing will certainly delight the recipient. So you can perfectly adapt to the tastes of the addressee and give exactly what he likes. In contrast, your present will exist in a single copy. Plus, homemade gifts are a great way to save money on expensive trinkets.
It is believed that not everyone can give handmade things, and this is true. If you are not a professional craftsman, hand-made should not be presented to distant acquaintances. But parents, close friends and family members will appreciate the handmade souvenir. We have selected options for wonderful New Year gifts that you can make at home!
Tree of happiness
Festive topiary inA decorative tree, or topiary, is a fashionable decoration for home and office. For its construction, the most different materials, including the symbols of the New Year. Such a stylish gift will bring a festive mood to your apartment or office. The topiary consists of the following parts:
- The basis. Typically, this is a ball or other shape cut out of Styrofoam. A floristic oasis is also used as a basis. This porous material is suitable for fixing various decor and is sold in specialty stores. Also, the base can be built from newspapers crumpled into a ball. For durability, the craft needs to be tied with threads and pasted over with padding polyester.
- Trunk. A regular branch is suitable for this role. It is enough to remove the bark and varnish it. Also, the barrel can be a piece of thick wire, a cylinder from cling film, several wooden sticks connected together. It is desirable to decorate the trunk with twine or tape.
- Stand. It can be flower dots, a large cup, a decorated jar - the choice is yours. The stand will be decorated with beads, shiny tinsel and bows.
- Crown. The most interesting part of the topiary. The crown decor gives a huge amount of space for imagination. For new Year's version Christmas balls, cones, artificial spruce and holly branches are perfect.
The tree of happiness can be assembled from a wide variety of items! Stick the decorations on the styrofoam ball, leaving free space for the barrel. Use scissors to make a round hole. Put the ball on the barrel and secure the structure with glue. Pour gypsum into a pot and dissolve it with water. In terms of density, the mass should be like sour cream. Place the tree in a container and let the plaster harden. Decorate the finished craft to your taste. The pot can be covered with padding polyester, and the cones and branches can be tied with artificial snow.
Delicious sculptures
Christmas trees made of candies can be presented as children Treat the sweet tooth with a simple craft made from their favorite sweets! The miracle tree will take pride of place in a colleague's office or decorate new Year's table friends. To create a Christmas tree with sweets, you will need:
- dense drawing paper;
- ruler;
- simple pencil;
- eraser;
- stapler or double-sided tape;
- candies in a bright wrapper;
- garland - "rain";
- tree beads.
Assembling a Christmas tree from candies step by step Make a frame; cut out a semicircle from paper and wrap it so that you get a cone. Secure the edges of the paper with tape or a stapler. Use double-sided tape to glue the garlands and candies to the frame. You can alternate layers of garlands and sweets, or you can place decorations in a spiral. In any case, for a Christmas tree 50 cm high, you need to take at least a kilogram of sweets. The top of the spruce can be decorated with a star or bow.
Pack your sweets in the shape of a Santa Claus sleigh! The candy sleigh is another fun souvenir that will remind you of children's winter adventures. For a sweet gift, you will need two candy canes, a chocolate bar, and ten flat candies of different sizes. Attach a chocolate bar to the canes, and lay a pyramid of candies on it. It is desirable that candies of different tiers differ in color. Tie the sleds with ribbon and hand them to the winter sports fan.
Fancy pillows
Treat friends and family with a family of cat pillows These soft products, as well as, create a special home comfort. Funny pillows in the shape of cute kittens will appeal to both children and adults. For a presentation, an avid cat lover will need:
- thick fabric in two different colors;
- a piece of white fabric;
- a coil of rope;
- synthetic winterizer;
- pencil;
- needle and thread.
An example of a pattern for a New Year's cat pillow Transfer the pattern to the fabric, changing the size of the figurine depending on your desire. You can sew both a small souvenir and a full-fledged pillow for sleeping. Fold the fabric in half with the back side out. Cut out two parts of the torso, making seam allowances about 1 cm long. From fabrics of contrasting and white cut out the eyes and nose.
The finished cat can be decorated with a heart patch Sew them on where you marked them. Sew the blanks for the body with the right side inward, leaving a small hole. Cut a seam allowance at the rounding points and turn the pillow through the unstitched area onto the front side. Fill the pillow with padding polyester and sew a hole with a blind seam. Decorate the cat's face with embroidery and tie a rope bow around its neck.
Knitted masterpieces
Skillful craftswomen should take a closer look at scarves in the form of animals IN winter season a warm scarf and mittens are priceless. Especially if they are made by a loved one. If you have conscientiously attended labor lessons, it will not be difficult for you to knit a gift for your sister, girlfriend or loved one. A round snood or transformer scarf is popular. But girls-schoolgirls will be delighted with a scarf in the form of a cute animal.
Plus, you don't have to be limited to one scarf! You can knit warm socks, mittens, or a designer cushion cover. You can find tutorials on knitting hats with a beard or visor on YouTube. Agree, a great gift for a man with humor. Find the right pattern, get the knitting needles and yarn - and get to work!
Cardboard sprocket
Step-by-step instruction for making a christmas star This luminary has long been a symbol of Christmas and all winter holidays. Custom decor can be gifted to parents or friends. To create an elegant star, you will need the following materials.
Thirstyfortea.comA great gift for tea lovers. “Tea connoisseurs don't drink sawdust from bags!” - you say. But who bothers to pack good expensive tea in envelopes?
You will need:
- a cone made of foam or thick cardboard;
- round cardboard box and stump rice;
- tea packed in small paper bags (the amount depends on the height and diameter of the cone);
- glue gun;
- star, bows and other decorations of your choice.
Cover the cone with tea bags, applying glue to their top. Move from bottom to top in a checkerboard pattern. It is better to use bags of contrasting color: the tree will turn out more elegant.
Glue the lid of the cardboard box to the bottom of the cone. Fill the box itself with rice to make the tree more stable, and then attach it to the lid. If you don't have a ready-made box of the required diameter at hand, make it yourself. Take as a basis a tube from a roll of paper towels or glue from cardboard according to this scheme.
Decorate the tree with bows, rhinestones and other decorative elements, and glue a star to the top of the head.
Tara Aveilhe / Flickr.com Such a gift will be highly appreciated by girls. After all, this is an individual scent, no one in the city will have such a perfume.
Before you create, find out what scents the one you want to please prefers. For example, if a girl likes citrus scents, you need lemon or orange. To add woody notes, you need sandalwood or cedarwood oils, powdery - rose or vanilla.
Ingredients:
- ½ cup almond oil;
- ½ cup grape oil;
- 100 g of beeswax;
- 1 teaspoon vitamin E
- 60 drops of lemon oil;
- 25 drops of eucalyptus oil;
- 20 drops of lavender oil;
- 20 drops of rosemary oil.
Combine almond and grape oil with wax in a separate saucepan and place in a steam bath. When the wax is completely dissolved, let the liquid cool slightly and add essential oils and vitamin E. Pour your future perfume into shapes. A bottle of old hygienic lipstick, vaseline jars, etc. will do.
When the wax has hardened, the perfume is ready to use. All that remains is to pack them beautifully.
A great gift for frozen girls. A pair of warm, sturdy socks that you don't wear can be turned into fingerless gloves.
Additional materials:
- needle with thread;
- heart cut out of felt.
Cut and sew the sock as shown in the photos. Be sure to hem the edge so that it does not wrinkle, and do all the seams from the inside out.
Sew a felt heart on top. You can use any other decorative means. For example, embroider the inscription "Happy New Year!" or embroider mitts with rhinestones.
Another DIY gift for those who are always freezing is. If you heat it up in the microwave for 1-3 minutes, you will get an excellent heating pad, which also smells good.
GA-Kayaker / Flickr.com Paracord is a nylon cord. It was originally used as a material for parachute lines, but then paracord was used wherever a light and strong cable might be required. For example, stylish men's bracelets are woven from it. In ordinary life - just a decoration, in an extreme situation - a saving rope.
Exist various techniques weaving from paracord. Here is one of the most common.
You will need:
- 150 cm of paracord of one color and the same amount of another (it is desirable that the shades are contrasting);
- 75 cm black paracord;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- needle and thread.
From paracord, you can weave not only a bracelet, but also a keychain, make a braid for a knife or a steering wheel. You can easily find the schemes on the Web. It's even easier - watch the video tutorials on YouTube, there are many of them.
Witandwhistle.com You can not only drink from such a mug. On it you can leave messages to household members or just draw.
Materials:
- white porcelain mug without relief;
- slate paint;
- masking tape;
- brush.
Slate paint is most often used to renovate blackboard surfaces. Now there is a large selection of such paints. You need one that can work on ceramics. For example, this one.
Choose an area of \u200b\u200bthe mug that will be comfortable to write on, but will not touch your lips when drinking. Cover the rest of the mug with masking tape.
Degrease the unsealed area and apply a thick layer of paint to it. Remove the tape and leave the mug in a well-ventilated area overnight.
Witandwhistle.com When the paint is dry, send the mug to an oven preheated to 150 ° C. Turn off the stove after 30 minutes, but remove the mug when it cools down.
The mug can now be washed in the dishwasher and placed in the microwave.
Heygorg.com If you are one of those who like to donate not material things, but experiences, you will love this idea. After all, it is not only a delicious warming drink, but also a reason to go or invite you over.
Take nice glass jars and fill them with about a third of the powder for making hot chocolate or cocoa. Add a few chocolates or chocolate wedges. Fill the remaining space with marshmallows.
Decorate the jars to your liking. For example, place a piece of cloth under the lid and attach a heart made from candy canes on top. The label can serve as a postcard, write your wishes on it.
Another variation of such a gift is a mulled wine set. Take an orange, apple, clove, and a cinnamon stick. Pack it all up nicely, make a wish label, and add a bottle of good red wine.
Candles are a traditional New Year's gift. But the glamorous store is one thing, and a nominal candle or a candle with a phrase that is understandable only to the giver and the gifted, or even a photograph, is another.
Take:
- white candles with a diameter of 5–7 cm;
- a4 paper for printing;
- parchment paper;
- scissors;
- glue stick;
Cut the parchment paper 1–2 cm wider than A4 sheet. Glue the parchment to the printing paper, curling the edges over to the other side. Insert the sheet into the printer with the glossy side, that is, the one with the parchment. Print the image you'd like to transfer to the candle.
The drawing will end up on parchment paper. Now you need to transfer it to a candle. Cut out the image, attach it to the candle, wrap it tightly on top with another layer of parchment and direct a stream of hot air onto the resulting structure. If the picture has brightened, then it is imprinted on the candle. Carefully remove the top layer of parchment and allow the wax to harden.
The gift is ready! If you wish, you can decorate it with rhinestones or sparkles.
This cosmetic bag greatly simplifies the search for the necessary items, because any lock can be opened.
You will need:
- 10 zippers 15–20 cm long;
- safety pins;
- a needle or sewing machine;
- threads.
Sew the zippers together from the inside out, for convenience, you can first bait them with pins. Close the resulting canvas in a ring and sew. Sew the zippers also across in front of the dogs, and then turn out the cosmetic bag.
This is a gift for a person who does not part with gadgets. The same principle can be used to sew a phone case.
Materials:
- a piece of felt suitable for the size of the tablet;
- 2 buttons;
- embedded magnets;
- safety pins;
- thick thread in the color of the buttons;
- thread in the color of felt;
- needle;
- scissors.
Fold the fabric so that the bottom is longer than the top: this is the future cover of the case. Sew around the edges and turn inside out.
Cut the lid in a wave or semicircle. Sew a button to the middle. Attach the second one below, on the case. Make a loop between them, as shown in the photo.
Ohsolovelyvintage.blogspot.ru Sew on the magnet on the left and right to the base and lid of the case. The fashion case is ready!
You can also make a stylish organizer for headphones, flash drives, phones and other gadgets from an old book in a beautiful binding. Here is a detailed one.
lePhotography / Flickr.com A gift that will delight not only children, but also adults with a sweet tooth. It is very easy to make a sleigh for Santa Claus.
You will need:
- glue gun;
- ribbons and other decor;
- sweets: chocolate, candy, cane-shaped lollipops.
Here is a detailed video tutorial.
A gift for a bosom friend or colleague. Beer can come in handy on January 1st, and brown bottles can easily be styled after Rudolph and his friends. (Rudolph is one of Santa Claus's reindeer, featuring a red glowing nose.)
Materials:
- beer in dark glass bottles;
- decorative wire;
- toy eyes;
- red pom-poms;
- ribbon and bows;
- box;
- super glue.
Remove labels from bottles. Make horns from wire for future deer.
Glue them to the back of the bottle. Attach the eyes and nose in front. Tie the tape (so that it does not slip, you can fix it with glue).
Craftysisters-nc.blogspot.ru Arrange the rest of the bottles in the same way. Arrange them in a box and decorate it.
A gift for household women and men who love to cook.
You will need:
- cotton fabric with New Year's pattern;
- batting for lining;
- threads;
- scissors;
- needle.
If you have a sewing machine, the job will not take long. Detailed video instructions - from sewing to cutting threads - are attached.
Inside such a mitten, you can put a spatula, a scoop and other little things useful for the kitchen.
A little more imagination, and the New Year's gift will become even more original. Attach a ring to the spatula and hang a selection of family recipes printed on cards and laminated on it.
Lilluna.com Glass snow ... wine glass
Balls with a miniature figure and artificial snow inside are very popular. The life hacker already has how to make something similar from an ordinary glass jar. Today it's the turn of the wine glasses.
Materials:
- transparent wine glass;
- thick cardboard;
- a figurine that fits easily into a glass;
- artificial snow;
- bows and other decor;
- glue.
Cut a circle out of the cardboard that is the same diameter as the glass. Glue the figurine to the cardboard. It can be a Christmas tree, deer or, for example, a car with a Christmas tree on the roof.
Pour fake snow, finely chopped white paper or styrofoam at the bottom of the glass. Glue the cardboard base to the edge of the glass and flip it over. Decorate the leg with a bow or ribbon.
belchonock / Depositphotos.com In the past year, very large knitted blankets are incredibly popular. Finished products are quite expensive, so it is more profitable to make a blanket yourself.
Merino wool is best for this, but other thick threads can be used. A video tutorial is attached.
With your hands, without needles and a hook, you can also knit a beautiful warm scarf. The life hacker has already done it once.
Ourbestbites.com This gift will help you remember the best moments of the past year. Just pick the best photos and print them. Take some clear glass jars and vases. Round and cylindrical vessels are best.
Light the pill candles inside the jars. The light will fill the house with warmth, and the photos will seem to glow from the inside.
Iheartnaptime.net Many skin flakes in winter. If there are such people among your friends, make them a sugar-lemon scrub as a gift.
According to the Chinese calendar, the symbol of 2017 is the rooster. Therefore, gifts with the image of a rooster or in the form of roosters and chickens will be especially relevant. A universal version of such a gift is a Christmas tree toy.
You will need:
- rooster-shaped cardboard blank;
- dense fabric;
- filler for toys;
- twine and lace ribbon;
- white outline;
- scissors;
- needle and thread;
- glue gun.
The manufacturing process is shown in the following video.
You can sweeten such a gift with sweet cockerels on a stick. For many, the form for them remained from the Soviet times.
Ingredients:
- ½ cup granulated sugar;
- 2-3 tablespoons of water (just to moisten the sugar);
- 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar (in some recipes, add regular tablespoon or a pinch of citric acid).
You need to cook syrup from sugar and pour it into a form richly greased with vegetable oil. Then stick in the sticks and wait until everything hardens.
If you know other original DIY solutions, share them in the comments.
What can you donate?
The troubles before the new year are always pleasant, and I want to give my friends and family more attention and give them something that is necessary and at the same time inspiring. What can be gift ideas for new Year with your own hands? List of basic handmade gift ideas:- any item with a photo (magnet, album or pillow);
- toy or bauble;
- do-it-yourself accessory;
- sweet gift;
- a useful thing that you have uniqueized with your own hands;
- interior item or home decor.
This is something that an absolutely ordinary person can handle if desired, if he shows a little ingenuity or finds good master class... If you have a hobby related to needlework, then you can do something in your favorite style.
A person who is fond of embroidery with beads will certainly be able to embroider a small christmas decorations or make a motivating picture for the interior, a good knitter will come up with unusual scarves for the whole family, and a woodcarver will be able to please loved ones with handmade jewelry.
But what if there seems to be no handicraft skills, but you want to make a gift? First of all, turn on your imagination and come up with several gift options.
New Year's souvenir
New Year's souvenirs bring the spirit of the holiday, so it's better to give them a little in advance - so that the gift has time to settle down in the house and create the right atmosphere happy holiday... It could be something related to the Chinese calendar - next year will be held under the sign of the Pig (wild boar), which means that any cute pig may well become a wonderful holiday gift.You can try to make a decoration for a Christmas tree or give a handmade Christmas tree. watch an easy master class:
If this is a Christmas tree toy, then you can:
- sew a toy in the shape of a pig, for example, from a sock;
- cut out several complex silhouettes of piglets with an openwork pattern from designer thick paper;
- make a figurine of a pig using the technique of dry or wet felting;
- weave from wire.
Pattern:
Photo gifts
This is the easiest and at the same time very touching way to make a present for parents for the New Year with your own hands, especially if you consider that you practically don't have to do anything “with your own hands” - the main thing is to find a good idea and devote some time to preparation.
Gifts decorated with photographs will highlight your feelings for your parents and will remind them of you all year long.
What could it be:
- the calendar;
- phone cases;
- decorative pillows;
- mugs and dishes;
- photo book.
For example, you can choose beautiful photos of the whole family or some funny moments for the calendar, or you can make a special photo session for this. By the way, a simple family photo, printed on a huge canvas, can also be a good gift - it will not only decorate your parents' living room, but will also warm them every day.
If you want to make a photo-gift, then choose the brightest and highest-quality frames. It is not necessary that there are people in the pictures - someone will like a mug with a portrait of their beloved cat, and my husband's mother was delighted with a wall calendar with photographs of her precious orchids, which she grows herself.
Take a closer look at a person's daily life, pay attention to what he devotes most of his time and try to use it somehow - then the gift will really please!
Sweet gifts
Honestly, this is my favorite way to do someone. If you like to cook, then prepare a magical gift for your loved ones - sweets immerse each of us in childhood, and a sweet tooth simply cannot imagine happy holiday without all kinds of sweets.What sweet gifts you can make yourself:
- gingerbread cookies for the Christmas tree;
- painted gingerbread;
- chic gingerbread house;
- cake;
- cakes;
- handmade candies.
Where is the difference between a regular gingerbread and a festive one? First, the dessert you make must be well done. If you are sure that your dough will burn, and instead of neat little sand people you will get mummies, then it is better to choose another gift.
Secondly, at the first glance at such a gift, it should be clear that it was made with love and for a specific person. A small gingerbread house can look very impressive and not too difficult to assemble.
While baking and decorating a fancy cake is not too easy (although, there are secrets here too). And finally, thirdly, the gift must be well wrapped. I'm not talking about the usual gift wrapping, multi-colored paper and lush bows, no.
Watch the video tutorial on how to create sweet sleds:
And you can make such a Christmas tree from sweets and tea:
Watch the video tutorial on how to create a candy tea tree:
Make a small bundle of pure, unbleached linen, tie a gift tag to the ribbon, and hang a small wooden star to highlight your gift and make it special.
If you want to make a gift in the form of sweets for your mom for the New Year or Christmas with your own hands, then choose an original recipe - for example, an exquisite cookie with drops of dark chocolate, ginger and pepper, cook it well, decorate and pack well, and mom will be delighted with the gift, because that it will feel your concern.
Handmade postcard
Made with your own hands can be either an addition to a gift or a small independent present - for example, to a colleague or boss. You should not fall into childhood and try to cut a postcard from old unused wallpaper - visit a handicraft store, where you can buy a blank for a postcard (specially folded cardboard), as well as the necessary decor.
It is best to watch a lesson on making a postcard with your own hands, and then buy materials from the list - for example, it can be a blank, New Year's cutting (volumetric elements made of thick cardboard), decorative adhesive tapes (most often paper, with an ornament) and various decorations.
Some of the materials can be replaced (for example, colored powder for embossing can be easily replaced with any coloring pigment - including decorative shadows or glitter for manicure). Try to make the card not only beautiful, but also neat.
Needlework as a gift
This category includes decorative items for the home, and various knick-knacks, and hand-knitted accessories. You can make gifts for the new year 2019 with your own hands, even if you do not know how to do needlework at all, but you are ready to try your hand and you like original gifts for the new year.Do-it-yourself gift for the new year:
- decorative clocks;
- knitted scarf;
- sofa cushion;
- decorative panel;
- soft toy;
- any interesting trinkets.
Interior panel, clock or toy. A good idea is needed here. A clock mechanism can be purchased at any craft store, you can use plastic or thick cardboard as a base, you can also make a clock based on a white plate, which you can decorate to your taste.
It is best to start with an idea. To make a gift to your beloved husband for the new year with your own hands, you need at least a little idea of \u200b\u200bwhat your spouse will be happy about. Is he into extreme sports? Make him a fun, extreme style wall clock. Are you a fan of a sports team? Place the names of the players under the appropriate number instead of the numbers on the dial.
An interior panel as a gift to a loved one is quite simple, you need a large wooden or plastic frame in which you will make your panel. You can try to make a portrait using an unusual technique - from different photographs or threads, from fingerprints or ordinary scotch tape.
Think about what a new year gift a guy would like to receive from you? Perhaps a confirmation of your feelings? Or something that can highlight his best features?
Knitting or sewing
If you do not know what to present to your dad for the new year, then try to do something with your own hands from threads and nails, for example, a similar picture in the style of string art.
How to do this, see the video instructions:
If you have minimal knitting skills, then you can try to tackle something really difficult - a sweater or socks, and if you are far from this type of needlework, then it is better to knit something small.
A hat, scarf, or something simple. In this case, the main thing is to choose a good yarn that can hide any pattern errors and not too confident loops. By the way, the guy-motorist will rejoice at a funny cover for the steering wheel or headrest knitted from fluffy yarn like a teddy bear.
Best Memories Jar
This present is suitable for both lovers and parents or best friends... Remember and write on small pieces of paper all the warmest and brightest memories associated with the recipient, then fold the pieces of paper, tie each with a ribbon and put them in a beautiful jar.
Now you can choose a gift of your choice and make it yourself, and you also know what to look for when packing.
One of the most important points in preparation for the New Year is the selection of gifts: the age-old question of how torments absolutely all people around the world. About a month before the New Year, even the busiest people take time out to shop for gifts. Moreover, many people prefer to make gifts for the New Year with their own hands.
2016th year, according to the Eastern calendar, is. Does this make any adjustments to the item on New Year's gifts? Of course, yes. Fiery Monkey and “hot”, she loves everything shiny, unusual, tasty and memorable - these rules should be followed if you decide to make gifts for the New Year 2016 with your own hands. All kinds of handicrafts, embroidery or culinary masterpieces will be in the spirit of the upcoming New Year's Eve, which means that the creative layers of the population this year have a place to turn around.
The editors have prepared a review of New Year's gifts so that you can catch your personal vector of New Year's inspiration, because in the end, DIY gifts for the New Year will turn out to be unique in any case.
Gifts for family and friends
Firstly, new Year gifts should be thought out for the closest circle of people - relatives. In the matter of New Year's hand-made, a variety of techniques are used: from decoupage to knitting, from drawings to origami. The most popular homemade gifts for the New Year are knitted items and interior items. What can be knitted or sewn to relatives for the New Year 2016? First of all, think about:
- sweaters, scarves and mittens with the names of loved ones and New Year's symbols;
- embroidery on a snow-white T-shirt of drawings significant for a relative: it can be the logo of a favorite music group or an image of a favorite animal. You can also embroider a funny monkey, because New Year 2016 is the year of the Fire Monkey. If you have a lot of time in stock, then with the help of special computer programs you can get an embroidery scheme for your joint photograph, which you will "transfer" to a snow-white canvas in the form of a T-shirt using a needle and thread;
- if there is almost no time left, tie or sew the family's original covers for their tea cups or thermoses with which they go for a walk in winter.
Without straying far from the topic of sewing and knitting, you can think of pillows and soft toys... This is done relatively simply, and this idea does not require special materials that are inaccessible to modern residents of densely populated cities. For example, on a homemade small pillow, you can also apply a joint photo or image of any significant event to a person by means of embroidery or printing on fabric.
Also do unusual gifts for the New Year with your own hands, you can use the decoupage technique. There are a huge number of instructions on the Internet with which you can relatively quickly make an original New Year's panel, a key holder, a unique clock or even a box for small things.
Gifts for colleagues
When preparing for the New Year, one should not forget about those people with whom you solve complex problems every day and, through unrealistic efforts, manage not to disrupt deadlines - about colleagues.
In the New Year 2016, they should be given no less attention than relatives and friends, because often a person is at work, as is customary to joke, even more often than at home. What can you make for New Year 2016 with your own hands for your colleagues?
Knitting and decoupage
In general, the same gifts are suitable for colleagues as for relatives, only their presentation and manufacturing technique should be slightly modified.
For example, a pillow embroidered for a colleague may not contain joint photographs (if the relationship is close and warm enough, then this option will do), but something related to your work. Here professional humor comes into play, which can only be understood by you.
Funny quotes that are understandable in your work environment can be applied to a pillow, scarf or hat by embroidery or color printing on clothes, or you can “sign” homemade gifts with titles: for example, “a scarf to the best accountant” or “a pillow for resting a robot programmer”. Show your imagination, but do not lose your sense of tact, so as not to inadvertently offend colleagues on new year corporate party when giving gifts.
Original presents
Also, colleagues can distribute hand-made new Year's cards with praise for their achievements in the labor field during the year, to acknowledge their personal achievements. Self-made posters from photographs are also suitable.
A colleague with a sweet tooth can be presented with a homemade Christmas tree made entirely of sweets and chocolate bars - only if the level of personal relationships allows such a gift.
You can also make a picture with your own hands where you and a colleague are depicted. It is not your drawing technique that will be important here, but how much you manage to transfer self-irony and humor to the picture. With a complete lack of drawing skills, you can resort to the capabilities of computer editors, and the resulting images, instead of a massive wooden frame, can be presented in a homemade photo book.
Office Decorations
To please yourself and your colleagues on New Year 2016, you can make homemade office decorations. If you have an office tree, then you can prepare unique toys for it with a few manipulations. To make thematic christmas decorations, you will need transparent Christmas balls, sugar and small photos of colleagues (instead of photos, you can use phrases and quotes that are clear to your work environment).
Making such toys can be simple and very fast:
- take christmas ball, carefully remove the "hat" from it, on which there is a mount and a loop for hanging on the tree;
- pour a little sugar into the ball to simulate snow (you can use cotton wool or glitter);
- place a photo or printed quotes face down in the balloon, rolled into a tube. Make sure the image is in a secure position and "looks" at you;
- put the “hat” back on and secure it with glue for reliability;
- done!
As a result, you will receive cute Christmas tree decorations, actualized for your work environment. These toys can be given as gifts to your colleagues so that they can take original gifts home. Instead of photographs and inscriptions, you can put bills rolled into a tube and tied with a ribbon in a ball to beautifully present a cash gift.
If you don’t have suitable ideas at all, you can donate your closest colleagues and relatives a certificate for your own services. Print a card on a computer into which the addressee will write the gift that he would like to receive from you. For example, you may be asked to bake a cake or buy a person the item they need, which will help you overcome the agony of doubts about gifts.
Finally, when creating gifts on your own, experts recommend not forgetting about the owner of the year - the Monkey. If possible, gifts for the New Year 2016 should be presented in the style of the Fire Monkey in order to update homemade presents for the upcoming holiday.
