DIY gifts for men
Everyone knows that a gift made to a chosen one with their own hands is appreciated rather than buying it in a store. Your soul, time, work, ideas will be invested in it. The main thing is that the surprise will undoubtedly turn out to be good. It will not take too much of your time, and your loved one will be pleasantly surprised. This article presents many interesting gift ideas for a man that you can do yourself.
Original ideas
A homemade gift is a good way to show your male partner how you feel about them. With simple instructions, it's easy to create vibrant compositions.
Prepare a surprise box. If you love to cook, then baked goods can be. Bake cookies, wrap them and hand them over with your wishes. You can make the box yourself. Paste it over with beautiful paper.
It will be a cool gift wall newspaper. Collect the photographs of the man and print. Cut out his face. Whatman paper will serve as the basis. Take a magazine, cut out the "bodies", connect them to the "heads" and stick them on.
Such a wall newspaper will cheer everyone up.
An unusual surprise can be "Notepad of desires". In magazines or on the Internet, find pictures depicting what a man dreams of. It can be a car, an apartment, a summer cottage, or whatever. We cut it out and glue it into the "wish pad". The action of the notebook is that you have to believe in the fulfillment of desire. When it is fulfilled, burn this page from the notebook.
Every woman dreams of decorating a selected souvenir and presenting beautifully. You can think of something special:
- build a paper bag;
- create a base for different shapes;
- you can use several wrappers of different colors and patterns at once - you get a double package;
- ribbons can also be made by hand.
Present a creative gift in a drawer. You should put gloves, a scarf, a stationery set, a notebook and perfume in it.
Make an interesting present from any bills. Create it in the form of a man's shirt and tie.
A very famous romantic gift is dinner. For a special surprise, take your holiday dinner to your rooftop or some other great location.
If it's warm outside, then go for a picnic.
Edible presents
Representatives of the stronger sex almost always love to eat. Delight your beloved man with delicious food. Prepare your own confectionery, cakes, decorate them in an unusual way. Be sure to sign your work. You can present goodies as a gift:
- food baskets;
- edible bouquets;
- presents made from wholesome food.
You can prepare a wonderful bouquet of products for the chosen one. You will need to buy sausage, bread, cheese, vegetables and herbs at the store. It is also necessary to prepare wooden skewers in advance. Put all the edible ingredients on the skewers, put them together with the skewers down and turn them over. Wrap the top of the skewers with tape. Wrap the bouquet with a beautiful wrapper. Fix it with tape, tie a bright ribbon.
Give a man a sweet candy present. Fold it up like a rudder. You can make it using a cardboard sheet. Cut out a shape for the base of the steering wheel of the car. Cover the steering wheel with a dark paint. Paste the steering wheel with various interesting sweets.
A delicious surprise can be made in the form of a chocolate machine. Make a frame for it from foam. Cut out the wheels from cardboard, glue them with white paper, attach candy on top. Glue the wheels to the car, glue the body of the car with candy. Decorate the space for the car windows with foil. We wrap everything in a transparent package, which we fix with a bright tape.
Make a nice poster with sweets. To do this, you need different goodies, such as juices, sweets, chocolate. Show your imagination. Write your congratulations on the poster, and glue the sweets.
You can make a delicious surprise in a box. Cut 2 identical circles with a diameter of 27 cm from thick cardboard. Connect them together for reliability.
- Cut a rectangle out of the cardboard that will serve as the sides. Place a piece of cardboard against the circle to determine its length. The height of the rectangle should be 20 cm.
- Bend the rectangle, give it a round shape.
- Use a glue gun to connect the parts together.
- Place the inside of the box with blue corrugated paper. Fold to the outside of its edge.
- Glue the outside of the bottom of the box, cut a circle, the diameter of which will be 27 cm, to attach unnecessary edges to the sides of the box.
- Cut out a rectangle from blue cardboard, the height of which is 22 cm, length 75 cm. Wrap the outer walls with it and coat well with glue. The box is ready.
- To make the lid, you need to cut out the third circle with a diameter of 27 cm and glue it over with corrugated paper. Cut out two circles, 19 cm in diameter, glue them on both sides on the lid. The foundation is done.
Now we will decorate the resulting box with sunflowers and nuts.
- Cut out quadrangles from cling film, the size of which is 25x25 and 13x13 cm. Place the pistachios in the center of the squares. Then fold the square. Secure with thread for a firm grip. Prepare the required number of bags.
- Cut 5 rectangles, the size of which is 17x6 cm. Cut the paper into thin strips, without finishing cutting to the end. Roll up the bag with duct tape. Glue thin strips in the middle of the future sunflowers.
- Cut a rectangle 18x8 cm from yellow paper, fold it like an accordion and cut out the details in the form of a rocket.Fasten another row of leaves on top.
- Cut out the leaves from the quadrangles, the size of which is 7x8 cm, and stretch them slightly in the middle. Place a strip of double-sided tape just below the middle. Secure the leaves with flowers.
- We make "nuts" from small bags of nuts. Cut out 3 sheets of green paper 4x5 cm each. Wrap the nuts with threads and attach them in the same way as sunflowers.
- We lay out flowers and "nuts" in the middle of the lid and glue them with a glue gun. Wrap the box with a yellow ribbon, tie an interesting bow. Put whatever you want inside the box, close the lid.
A wonderful and bright present for a representative of the stronger sex is easy to create on your own, and you don't have to go shopping to find a special souvenir. Be patient.
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Simple crafts
Simple crafts are easy to make. They will be a lovely surprise for a man. They can be useful to him at home or at work. You can mold a fish-shaped keychain from polymer clay. A fishing enthusiast will really like this gift.
Your chosen one will be delighted with this design much more than hearts and trinkets.
A safe book can be a surprise for dad. Here is a small master class on making a presentation. You will need: a book with a strong crust, scissors, a pencil, water, glue, a brush, a ruler.
- Dilute the adhesive with running water in equal amounts.
- Apply glue to the back of the cover, gluing it to the page at the end.
- Unfold the front cover and glue the rest of the book sheets. Glue them together.
- Put in a dry cache. Keep the front cover open.
- In the book, draw a circle, 3 cm from the edges.
- Cut a circle out of the book. Leave a few back pages.
- Place glue on the inside of the book and leave it on until it is completely dry. The safe book is ready.
Make a present for your husband in the form of a photo frame. Thick paper should serve as its basis. Smear its edges with glue. You will need bamboo sticks for the edges of the frame. Arrange them in a quadrangle shape. Spread the sticks from the back base with glue and decorate with any material, for example, sequins, cereals and other materials, depending on what you have at hand. In the frame, enclose your picture with your spouse.
A cannon from a bottle will be a great presentation idea that a man will admire. As a present, you need to buy him herbal balm.
- Cut out two circles with a diameter of 8 cm from cardboard. Cut the sleeve into rings. Their diameter should be equal to 6 cm, width 2 cm. Attach everything to the circles that you cut out.
- You need to attach to the bottle the wheels with the width that you need for the hub, with a diameter of 3 cm inside, and cut it off.
- Cut a circle out of corrugated paper. Its diameter must be larger than the diameter of the wheel. Wrap the wheel with corrugated paper. Decorate its edges with satin ribbons.
- Do the same with the other cannon wheel. Wrap the inside of the sleeve with a paper strip. Attach the inner sleeve to the wheels. Do not forget to decorate the structure with a bright ribbon. Attach a bottle and measure the length you need. Secure the other edge.
- Twist twine circles, the diameter of which is 1 cm, in the middle of the cannon wheel, fasten them together.
- Decorate the bottle with herbal balm with ribbons. Fill the box with nuts, crackers, fish. Then wrap it with paper. This will complete the base for the cannon.
- Fix the wheels with glue. Place the balm bottle in the clamp. Do not forget to secure the structure with glue.
- You can decorate the surprise with unusual napkins in the form of money. Sew bags for crackers and nuts from any fabric. Arrange them around the edges of the bottle. The gun is ready!
Practical gifts
With your own hands, you can make an original decorative pillow with your own hands. Sewing this souvenir is very easy and quick.He will remain in the memory of your chosen one for a long time. The pillow can be sewn by hand. Make a filler from a padding polyester, and a pillow decoration from beads, lace and an unusual applique. Your chosen one will be happy to appreciate such a present. The pillow will become an interesting decoration of the room.
With the onset of cold weather, knits will become necessary.
- Gloves or warm gloves. It is not cold in them, and your chosen one will not freeze.
- Tie a hat that can be done in any look. You will not go wrong with the size if you take a hat worn by a man. A crocheted hat looks very interesting.
- A knitted scarf will become a necessary thing in the cold season for your chosen one.
- Socks come in very handy when it's cold outside.
Take knitting needles, hook - and go. There is nothing complicated.
For a man who has a lot of tools at home, you can sew a bucket with many pockets or a belt out of fabric. The man will always have a screwdriver or a hacksaw at hand.
You can also sew a case for your phone and tablet yourself. The soft case will save the screen from unexpected drops and scratches. If the chosen one likes to listen to music with headphones, then sew a cover for him so that they do not get tangled.
A friend can be presented with an original surprise in the form of a bouquet of socks. It will definitely come in handy for him.
Twist the socks into the bud, one at a time. Spread it out on a flat surface. Twist the roll loosely starting from the elastic of the sock. Straighten the edges a little and draw out the middle. The bud will turn out to be larger. We fasten the edges. We do the same with all the socks.
Make stems for buds from tubules. Use colored paper to make the stems green. The stems that have turned out must be inserted into the center of the bud. Your composition is done.
Let's get started with the design. Wrap the sock structure with a gift wrap to make a bouquet. Wrap the flowers in foil and tie with a ribbon. Place shaving foam, deodorant, or cologne in the middle.
Decorate the bouquet with real flowers such as violets or marigolds. They will make it even more interesting and natural.
If a friend loves sweets, you can complement the set with fruit buds... To do this, insert the skewers into the center of the fruit. The structure will be easy to hold. Put the flowers you made into the kit. Use duct tape to attach the stem to the back of the bottle. Insert it into the bouquet.
Even such an ordinary and simple surprise from socks can be interesting to present. Use your imagination and creativity.