New Year's holidays - a period that substantially empties the wallet.
We need to take care of the holiday attire, buy decorations for the house, buy goodies for dinner, but the main expense is presents for all relatives and friends.
But you can make gifts for the New Year with your own hands .
This will help you not only to save, but also to show originality.
Just think how much your gifts will differ from other boxes, spread out under the Christmas tree.
Do not think that this way you will show disrespect to the addressee or demonstrate greed, because a gift with your own hands is not necessarily a five-kopek postcard.
Why you need to make gifts for the New Year with your own hands?
If you have enough money, then it will not be very difficult to buy gifts for the New Year to all your relatives.
Yes, these presents can be quite faceless, but they will demonstrate that you are not a greedy person.
It's quite another matter if you are very limited in means, and a lot of friends and relatives expecting a gift from you.
How to be?
Learn how to make beautiful, original and useful gifts for the New Year with your own hands.
Gifts for the New Year, made by yourself, is advantageous, because:
- This will save you money.
- You will be able to demonstrate your skills and creativity.
- Give something that you can not buy in a regular store.
- Such gifts are always perceived as a sign of special attention: someone was not too lazy and made such beauty for me.
- Now few people want to spend time on crafts, so your present will definitely stand out among others.
Useful gifts with their own hands for the New Year
For some reason people are skeptical about the gifts made by themselves, immediately presenting a useless postcard or an ugly hand-made article that will collect dust on the shelf.
But why does your imagination suffice only for this?
Many gifts created for the New Year with their own hands can be both beautiful and useful.
I refer to useful gifts with my own hands:
- Knitted sweaters, scarves, hats, gloves and other things.
- Embroidered shirts, dresses, napkins, tablecloths. Sewed clothes, bed linen.
- Covers for furniture, rugs, bedspreads on the bed, made in the style of the patchwork.
- Products from beads. Carved candlesticks, caskets.
- Jewelery made of natural stone and other materials.
- Ceramic utensils made with a potter's wheel.
- Wooden furniture. Handmade silk handkerchiefs, scarves and other.
How to celebrate the New Year so that it will be better than the previous one?
Naturally, to create such a nice gift with your own hands, you need to learn how to sew, knit, embroider, work with clay, beads, wood and other materials.
To master at least one craft and make such a quality gift with your own hands for this New Year, you do not have time, but by next year you can come fully armed.
Gifts for the New Year with their own hands with the participation of food
Very common gifts for the New Year - champagne, fruits and sweets.
To give all this in the usual package, even with a beautiful New Year's picture - it's trite.
It's better to make your own original packaging for food that you are going to present.
You can make your own hands for the New Year:
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Herringbone decorated with sweets:
- of cardboard glue cone-shaped frame;
- sheath it with a fluffy rain of green;
- with the help of clips "decorate" the Christmas tree, which turned out, candy in beautiful wrappers.
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Packing for champagne.
To beautifully pack a bottle of champagne, you can use rain, foil, colored paper, ribbons, bows and other ornaments.
You can get this beauty:
Or - this:
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Original basket for fruits and other snacks.
If you want to give food( champagne, candy, fruit), but at the same time they are set to make gifts with your own hands for the New Year , it is realistic to combine both wishes by making a beautiful basket-packing.
The basket can be bought already ready, but it's not difficult to decorate it with the help of handy materials.
Original gifts for the New Year with their own hands from money
Who said that you can not give money to the New Year?
It is possible, only if you present them not in a banal envelope, but make a package with your own hands or - an odd job out of money.
For example, the mom of one of my friends always gives her daughter money for the New Year and for her birthday, believing that an adult daughter herself will figure out what she should buy.
But for the present not to look banal, she always presents the money in an original way: inside the balls, in a homemade card or box, in the form of a money tree, etc.
How fun to spend the New Year?
Original gifts for the New Year with the participation of money - this is :
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Crafts from monetary denominations.
As the theme is New Year, we can make:
- herringbone;
- snowflake.
You can fasten bills using threads, wire or double-sided tape, which can be easily peeled off from money bills without damaging them.
- herringbone;
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Original packaging for money.
It can be:
- embroidered pouch( suitable patterns are complete and complete on the Internet, and in bookstores);
- stitched gift sock that hang over the fireplace in Europe and the US;
- envelope;
- box( take any paper box or wooden box and decorate it as desired);
- original jar( an ordinary glass jar, a little candy, tinsel, fantasy - that's the capacity for money and ready).
- embroidered pouch( suitable patterns are complete and complete on the Internet, and in bookstores);
To make colorful postcards in the New Year, use the ideas from the video:
Inexpensive gift ideas for the New Year with your own hands
It is not necessary to spend a lot of money to create a present for the New Year with your own hand.
Just do not build too ambitious plans, which will have to buy a lot of expensive supplies, and you will be able to save significantly on New Year's presents.
How to write a letter to Santa Claus?
Inexpensive gift ideas for the New Year with their own hands:
Christmas tree toy.You can personally make a huge number of Christmas decorations using different materials. For example, it's easy enough to make toys from:
- paper;
- of old CDs;
- thread and beads;
- pasta, glued together and colored with golden, silvery or white paint.
Christmas wreath.
Make a Christmas wreath that will decorate the doors with your own hands is much cheaper than buying ready-made.
Having done many such wreaths, you will have inexpensive, but original gifts for all your loved ones.
You will need a round metal, plastic or rubber frame, and the wreath itself can be made from artificial fir, cones, lush rain, Christmas balls, vines, thin branches, paper.
Decorate to your liking.
Photo frame.
This is a wonderful souvenir that you can craft yourself and give to parents, friends or loved ones with a beautiful photo of your family, couple or company of friends.
Buy an inexpensive plastic or wooden frame of the required format.
With the help of glue, start decorating it with coffee beans, buttons, shells, Christmas-tree toys, paper snowflakes, rain, cones and other things.
As you can see, making presents for the New Year with your own hands is not so difficult.
The main thing - to show a little creativity, to spend a little time, and still - to invest in a hand-crafted whole soul.
This gift will surely please your loved ones.