9 Easy & Useful Handmade Christmas Gift Ideas

- By Anamika Mishra

The best Christmas gifts should come directly from the soul. Though we can easily order personalized gifts from Amazon or flipkart, if at all there is something worth gifting then it is solely a handmade gift. That can be placed under the Christmas tree or can be even gifted to our parents, relatives, friends and even kids. To make this season delighted I’m here to present you with the Handmade Christmas gift ideas. Most of the gifts mentioned are easy to make and the items needed might be available at home or you can even obtain it from the store nearby. Also pair your gift with a personalised card so that the moment becomes memorable.

1. Bath tea

Who doesn’t love to soak in water relaxing and laying down for a while. You can easily make it by adding your own bath tea soak with layers of dried flowers, epsom salt and essential oils. Isn’t this such a useful Handmade Christmas Gift Idea?

Tutorial to make bath tea

DIY Handmade christmas gift ideas — DIY Bath tea / Source: refer watermark

2. Filled Glass Ornament

Ornament complete the look of the Christmas tree you can make your own filled glass decoration by just filling in empty glass ornaments with bottle-brush trees, jingle bells, springs of pine branches or even colourful feathers or any other fillers of your choice. Your friends are going to thank you for this!

Handmade Christmas Gift Ideas — DIY Chrismtas Glass Filled Ornaments

3. Coffee Mug Mixers

You will need to fill up a Spoon of chocolate stir instant flavoured with coffee. To enhance look you can even try scattering chopped espresso beans or peanut butter chips or even crushed candy canes on the chocolate of your choice. And just pack it nicely with a transparent sheet and secure with a ribbon.

4. Waffle Dips

You can easily make with all ingredients at home and assemble. You need store brought waffles, molten dark chocolates and desiccated coconuts. So you need to take a waffle and dip half of it in the chocolate and dust it with some coconut cookies. You can enjoy them with your family.

5. Salt dough ornaments

The salt dough ornaments for a Christmas looks absolutely classic. They are so easy to modify. You can make salt dough using salt, flour and water. Salt and dough should be in equal proportion. The complete dough looks beautiful on its own, you can also add food colouring, spices and essential oils to give the ornaments a new look. You can choose the simple shapes such as snowflakes, stars, and mittens.

6. Mason jar candle

By gifting them these lovely candles, you can fill your loved one home with an vitalizing and an absolute holiday peppermint aroma. You will need candle wax flakes, wick, peppermint essential oil and a mason jar. Fix the wick to the mason jar and melt the wax and mix it with an essential oil. Allow it to cool and now the candle is ready to be gifted.

7. Jam Sandwich Cookies

You can easily make these jam filled cookies and pack the in a decorative envelope. Please refer to the link below for the recipe.

Recipe for Jam Sandwich cookies

8. Citrus Sugar Scrub

You can even offer a gift that will nourish your loved one’s body during the winter. You can make this scrub using just three-ingredients coconut oil, sugar, and fresh orange zest. Mix all the ingredients together and put them in a jar and pack.

9. Christmas Tea Tree

Tea lovers are going to appreciate for the lovely gift. Also budget friendly, you will need tea bags with the cover, hot glue and a Styrofoam cone. You will have to fix the tea bags using hot glue starting from the bottom in such a way that it appears like a Christmas tree.