How to make a birthday present for your sister with your own hands?

Sometimes the question arises - what can you give your beloved sister on her birthday. And in order to be sure that the gift will bring joy, not disappointment, it is necessary to take into account the age and interests of the birthday girl.

Gifts may vary depending on the age of the birthday girl.

At this age, the emotions of children are sincere and genuine. A trip with the whole family to the zoo or to the children's entertainment center can be a good birthday present for a little sister. You can organize a home holiday, and invite friends of the birthday girl.

For preschool children, gifts with a specific theme are selected, developing the mental abilities and healthy thinking of the child. Sometimes children are indifferent to expensive store toys, and a homemade gift causes a storm of positive emotions in a child. For a 6-year-old sister, you can do it yourself. DIY gift in the form of a game, which strengthens concentration and improves memory. To create it you will need:

• 33 plastic bottles with solid corks 3.5 cm in diameter;
• a piece of flat board or plywood;
• superglue "Moment";
• dark marker;
• hacksaw with a blade for metal.

The most difficult stage of work in the execution of the craft is cutting off 33 threaded necks from the bottles, you should contact the master.

The craft is done step by step.

• They unscrew the corks from the bottles, write one letter of the alphabet on each cork with a marker in large print, 33 letters in total.
• The board (plywood) is lined with rectangles measuring 5x8 centimeters so that 33 rectangles fit on it.
• In the corner of each rectangle, a neck with a thread from a bottle is glued, applying glue to the protruding rim from below. Next to the glued neck of the bottle, in a rectangle, write the letter of the alphabet in the same font as on the cork.
• Repeat the same 32 more times, up to the last letter of the alphabet.
• Stoppers with letters written on them are placed in a box. The child takes out of the box any of the corks with the letter of the alphabet, finds a rectangle with the same letter on the board, and wraps the cork on the neck of the bottle with a thread.

A good gift for your sister for her 16th birthday can be a knitted snood scarf, which is very popular among young people. Snood is a scarf that has neither beginning nor end. It is worn unfolded or folded in a figure eight. Knitting snood will not be difficult for a person with knitting skills.

For knitting snood, acrylic yarn is preferred, the main properties of which are strength and lightfastness. The added natural fibers will enhance the quality of the yarn, adding warmth and volume.

For the anniversary of the sister, you can do it yourself for her album of memories... For its design, appropriate photographs are selected, accompanied by poems, notes, comments. Anything that is important to the birthday girl can be used to create an album. For the future book of memories, thick sheets of paper are selected, which are connected to each other with a hole punch and braid. The album will be decorated with a colorfully designed cover.

You can cook something delicious.

It is impossible to imagine a children's party without sweets. A sweet present can be presented to a child in an unusual way, turning this moment into an entertainment event called “Guess”. Both the birthday girl and guests can participate in it.

Sweet "snacks" (sweets, bars, chocolates) are put into a large vase on the table. The participant of the game is invited to look at what is in the vase, then blindfolded to find the version of the "tasty treat" he likes.

As a sweet gift, the birthday girl can be presented with a delicious cake made at home with her own hands, which will delight not only her, but also those around her.

The Medovik cake is a win-win option. Components that make up the cake:

• egg - 3 pcs.;
• sugar - 2/3 cup;
• honey - 5-6 tablespoons;
• butter - 150 g;
• flour - 3-4 cups;
• soda - 1 teaspoon.

Cream composition:

• sour cream - 0.5 kg (better than store-bought, medium fat content);
• sugar - 1 glass;
• honey - 2 teaspoons.

The components are connected in a specific sequence.

• Beat eggs with sugar using a mixer, add softened butter, mix again.
• Add soda to the heated honey, mix, add the resulting mass to the mixture of eggs and sugar. Add flour little by little, stirring, knead into a soft dough.
• Divide the dough into 5 parts. In a greased form, bake one cake at a time.
• Beat sour cream with a mixer, add sugar and honey. Prepare crumbs from one cake.
• Smear the cakes with cream, fold, coat the sides of the cake, sprinkle the whole product with crumbs, keep the finished cake in the refrigerator for 4-5 hours.

Sweet fruits in a do-it-yourself basket from a paper vine will be a wonderful decoration for the birthday girl's table.

The main reason for the popularity of this type of needlework is the cheapness and availability of the main material. You can give a second life to old magazines and newspapers, which are in abundance in every home. Practical and beautiful products, as well as toys and souvenirs are made from paper vine.

Weaving was mastered by people many hundreds of years ago, in addition to being useful in practical terms, it is also useful in the field of therapy: it has a calming effect, relieves stress. Having spent a little time mastering the technique of weaving from a newspaper vine, you can give your sister a double gift for her birthday: present a practical thing in the form of a basket woven with your own hands, a souvenir made of the same material, hold a training master class on weaving for her.

The technique of making a paper vine is simple - even a beginner will master it.

• The bottom edge of the newspaper is wrapped around the knitting needle.
• The paper continues to be rolled up to the opposite edge. It is carefully glued to the tube and the needle is pulled out.
• One end of the tube is wider than the other. The narrow edge of the next tube is inserted into the wide end of the previous one. Thus, a vine of any length can be weaved.
• If a plain canvas is chosen, the tubes are painted in different colors as desired.

There is one more way to give the birthday girl an additional "portion" of mood on this day. It is recommended to make a paper craft with her using the origami technique. You can offer your sister the option of a little angel. For this you will need:

• sheet of paper (A4 format);
• scissors, stationery glue;
• watercolor paints, brush;
• painted face of an angel.

The craft is carried out in a strict sequence.

• Cut a strip of paper 1.5 centimeters wide from the long side of the sheet, make an accordion from it with edges 0.5 centimeters wide.
• A sheet of paper is folded with an accordion with 1 centimeter edges.
• At a distance of 1/3 of the sheet, an accordion 1 centimeter wide is glued from above, creating a constriction.
• The upper accordion (halo) is stretched, the ends are glued to the lower accordion (dress).
• Above the banner, the "face" of an angel is glued, a collar is made from a small accordion and glued under the "face".
• A strip of a halo, a collar and a bottom edge of the dress are highlighted with gold or yellow paint, the rest is painted in any desired color.

And a few more memorable gifts with your own hands.

A small souvenir added to gifts will become a source of pleasant memories of the holiday for the child. You can make such souvenirs yourself from simple salted dough. The basic recipe is the only one for all cases. It is taken:

• 2 egg whites;
• 2 tablespoons of Extra salt;
• 1 cup flour.

Dense, elastic dough is kneaded. The consistency of the dough depends on the size of the eggs - a little less or a little more flour is taken. You can sculpt anything that your imagination tells you - it can be figures of animals, birds, fish and other objects.

"Souvenirs" are baked at low temperatures. Finished crafts are painted with watercolors, and after drying, the paint is covered with several layers of colorless varnish. If over time, from frequent wiping, the product becomes unsightly, it is covered with a new layer of varnish. The value of the idea lies in the fact that a child can take an active part in the creation of such a souvenir, and this will bring him no less joy than receiving it.

In your sister's room, you can decorate one of the walls with a homemade panel made of newspaper tubes connected by weaving. The ends of the tubes are not cut off - this is the beauty of the product. The height of the panel can be any, depending on what is planned to be placed on it. You can place a piece of a fantastically curved root or a composition of dried flowers or branches on the panel.

Weaving is carried out using colored threads and paper glue.

• A shape is cut out of a thick sheet of paper, in size suitable for the future panel.
• The bottom part of the tubes is neatly glued to the mold at a distance of 3-5 cm from each other - it is better to apply the glue pointwise. Details are arranged in accordance with the intended pattern or pattern.
• The tubes are intertwined with colored threads - a bright, original craft is obtained.

In the form of a memorable souvenir, you can add a small craft made of newspaper vine in the shape of a heart to the gifts for the birthday girl.

• A tube from a newspaper is folded in the shape of a heart and a wire is threaded through it.
• One of the ends of the vine is attached with glue to the frame. Next, a newspaper tube is wrapped around the form in a chaotic manner.
• The finished product is coated with paint and decorated as you wish.

Hand-made masterpieces will give the sister the opportunity to feel loved and needed, and will also make the atmosphere in the house warm and cozy.

The original idea for a homemade gift for your sister is shown in the video below.