How to make a gift to a friend with your own hands?

It is always very pleasant to make really nice and unique gifts to friends and family. A handmade present can convey your reverent attitude to a person. And the creative approach and creativity will favorably highlight your particular souvenir, making it more expensive and valuable for the person to whom it was presented. The article will present interesting gift ideas for your best friend that you can make with your own hands.

The first gift option can greatly delight and surprise lovers of coffee drinks, and just fans of all unique and original things.

Prepare a hot drink mug with a handle, a package of coffee beans, cotton pads, brown acrylic paint, superglue, a spool of strong white thread.

Operating procedure.

• At the first stage, you need to glue the entire outer surface of the mug, including the handle, with cotton pads. It is important that there are no areas left that are not covered by them.
• After the glue dries a little, wrap the body of the mug and its handle with thread.
• Paint all cotton pads with acrylic paint.
• Apply a thin layer of glue to small areas of the mug and cover it with a coffee bean. To avoid gaps between the grains, it is best to arrange them in two layers.
• An original and beautiful mug is ready as a gift. Additionally, you can decorate it with ribbons or small accessories.

From a fairly everyday and even boring item, you can make a cool surprise for a friend's birthday. This idea is also quite simple to implement. A regular stationery folder is filled with funny and original little things and little souvenirs. It can be a thematic design focused on the hobbies and interests of the birthday person. Let's list the dei for the gift organizer.

• For those who love tea drinking with sweets, you can present a beautifully designed folder, inside which there will be chocolate, sweets, lollipops, marmalade and other delicacies. You can also place a collection of tea in the organizer.
• The folder can contain one main present, for example, a personalized gift pen for writing. The rest of the pockets and departments can be filled with nice little things.
• Inside the organizer, you can place a collage of joint photos.
• For those who are fond of oriental practices, it will be pleasant to receive a themed folder filled with aromatherapy accessories as a gift.
• Complete your gift with cards with wishes and words of support. They can be kind of humorous and funny.

To make the gift even more original, the organizer can be made by hand.

• Take any cardboard box of A4 size or close to it. Too bulky packaging should not be done.
• Get creative and decorate the box as you like, choosing a specific theme and style. Colored decorative paper, cardboard, rhinestones, sequins, stickers, beads and other decorations can be used.
• When the folder is ready, use ribbons or decorative tape to place and secure your little surprises in it.

To learn how to make an organizer with your own hands, see the video below.

Many people mistakenly believe that only practical gifts should be presented to adults. However, even in an adult, a small sweet tooth often lives. And if a gift of sweets and chocolate is also beautifully decorated, your friend will be just happy to receive it on his birthday. One creative idea for a sweet presentation is decorating a gift poster. You can supplement it with cute or funny drawings, good wishes, humorous statements. To make a craft, you will need:

• scissors;
• glue;
• felt-tip pens, colored pens, pencils, paints;
• double sided tape;
• sheet of whatman paper;
• stapler.

Before starting work, think over the theme and style of your greeting poster. Draw and color a piece of Whatman paper. Then, using tape and a stapler, attach sweet treats to it:

• candies;
• small chocolates;
• bars;
• lollipops;
• marmalade and biscuits in the package;
• sweet nuts.

A friend will appreciate your sense of humor when you present them with a bouquet of socks. This necessary wardrobe detail can be presented in a very creative and unusual way. Subsequently, the "buds" will be used for their intended purpose, as a necessary and everyday wardrobe detail. To create a gift you will need:

• several pairs of socks, preferably of different colors;
• decorative ribbons, beads, sequins;
• scissors;
• Scotch;
• cocktail tubes;
• wrapping paper;
• a few pins.

Each sock individually needs to be twisted with a tube and pinned at the base. Do not try to make them exactly the same size, let the "buds" be different. Insert a cocktail tube into the middle of the twisted sock. Thus, you will get a stem with an unblown flower from a twisted sock. To prevent the “bud” from sliding down the tube, secure it with tape.

To create an unusual souvenir, you can use the technique of folding paper figures.Using this technique, you can make paper flowers, figurines of animals, cars, birds, and various objects. To create a gift for a friend, you can use one of the following ideas:

• create a garland of several paper birds;
• make a bouquet of flowers;
• create a composition of animal figurines;
• present a paper model of your favorite car.

Another creative idea for a gift souvenir for a friend - it is a composition created on a wooden base using nails and colored threads.

• Prepare a template for the image you want to apply to the panel.
• Pick up solid colored plywood or a small board.
• Lay your drawing on a base and hammer in thin nails along the outline at regular intervals.
• Remove the backing and wrap all nails alternately or randomly with colored threads. You will get a web of threads crossed in different directions.
• Attach the thread to the last nail and cut it. A beautiful panel as a gift is ready.