The best small symbolic gifts for the New Year

New Year is a magical and wonderful time when all of us, young and old, live in anticipation of some miracle, and expect from this holiday the fulfillment of our cherished dreams. With the approaching New Year's days, each of us thinks about what to give to family and friends.

I would like to please with a gift and pay attention to each of these dear people, so small New Year's gifts and souvenirs will be great helpers in this matter. In order for the gift to be to your liking, of course, it is necessary to take into account age and gender differences, but it will also be useful to find out in advance what a person is fond of, what is interesting to him.

How not to go crazy in the pre-New Year's mess, and find nice souvenirs for loved ones, let's talk in more detail.

Symbolic gifts for the New Year are best planned. Some adventurous people buy small souvenirs all year round, and as soon as they come across something really interesting, they immediately buy it and put it off until the moment when they make a congratulation. Thus, the financial burden during the holidays will not be too burdensome for you, and you will always know what to give.

Women love pleasant fragrances, and you don't have to buy an expensive perfume - you can delight them aroma lamp, handmade scented soap, beautifully designed collection of aromatic herbs for tea... Many representatives of the fair sex are passionate about women's handicrafts, and here the scope for choosing a souvenir is simply endless, and in order to make it easier for yourself, try to find out in advance what she would like to receive as a gift.

For men, the gift should have practical value. These can be pleasant little things that he can use in relation to his hobbies, at work, at home, in nature. As a rule, men value humor very much, so sometimes the best gifts for them are these are small souvenirs with humorous overtones.

In many ways, the theme of a gift for men is determined by their age. Young people will be delighted with modern devices for a computer, game console or phone. And a representative of the older generation will gladly accept a good book or a beautiful cigarette case as a gift.

The easiest way is to choose a gift for a child. Children are happy with new toys, sweets, board games, creative kits, books with fairy tales.

An excellent topic for finding a New Year's souvenir can be the symbol of the year according to the Chinese calendar. As you know, every year in this oriental calendar symbolizes this or that animal. Gifts with such a symbol on the eve of the New Year holidays can be easily found, and they are intended for both adults and children.

For adults, you can give such nice little things as a towel with the symbol of the year, a sofa pillow, a mug with a picture, fridge magnets, a beautiful wall calendar or diary for the coming year, and cute stuffed animals to relieve stress. Children will be able to delight sweet sets of candies, packed inside a soft toy symbolizing the coming year.

A good and win-win gift, perhaps for a person of any age, will be any decoration for the Christmas tree.

On the eve of the holiday, people are very happy with a set of hand-painted Christmas balls, an unusual garland, a beautiful tabletop composition of twigs, cones, and beads. It can be handmade jewelry - made of felt, painted clay, papier-mâché - the scope for creativity and imagination in this direction is endless.

Even a box with a small gift of fireworks will come in handy these days. - after all, on New Year's Eve, adults briefly turn into big children, and they like to launch festive fireworks, forgetting for a while about their very important affairs and problems.

Candles can be an original gift for the New Year's holiday. Only they must be unusual - for example, in the form of some figures, unusual colors, imitation of fruits. Candles with a festive theme applied to their surface look very beautiful - it can be some kind of cute winter landscape, a plot with characters, or just a collage with New Year's paraphernalia. A candle can be packed in a beautiful wrapper or presented in an unusual candlestick. Can be found on sale now scented candles - this option will also be very appropriate for a festive occasion.

A cute souvenir for the New Year can be red cap of Santa Claus, hair hoop imitating ears and horns of a deer, magician's hat, Elf's wings. Such things are quite inexpensive, but their delivery can be very fun to beat, creating a good mood for everyone.

Small but pleasant little things will be a great gift for colleagues, friends, neighbors. There are ideas for universal symbolic gifts that all adults will be happy with:

• beautiful and unusual notepad for notes;
• a set of chocolates or marmalade;
• photo frame with original design;
• keychain or key holder in the hallway;
• aromatic tea or coffee in a beautiful package;
• champagne glasses;
• a small cup and saucer, made in the same style, for coffee or slightly larger for tea;
• a small night light-lamp, for example, in the form of a snowman, a Christmas tree, Santa Claus;
• gingerbread or homemade cake - all this can be packed in colorful foil or a box;
• table statuette or candle in the form of a symbol of the year;
• computer flash card;
• a miniature live thuja in a pot or the main symbol of Christmas and New Year is a real poinsettia.

All these items can be purchased shortly before the onset of the holiday, since it is at this time that their choice is the most diverse, and prices are low.

Sweet souvenirs are another win-win option that will please both children and adults. You can buy sweets ready-made or do it yourself.

The idea of ​​delicious gifts includes different options:

• Christmas gingerbread cookies with nuts and dried fruits - they can be in the form of a heart, a Christmas tree, a bear, a crescent, or represent the symbol of the year. Gingerbread cookies can be glazed, sprinkled with chopped nuts, decorated with chocolate patterns. Gingerbread cookies can be made in small sizes and packed in several pieces in beautiful jars or boxes. Or you can make one big gingerbread and wrap it in transparent mica or wrap it in sack paper and tie it with beautiful ribbons. There are many packaging options - it all depends on your taste, desire and capabilities.
• Fabulous gingerbread house - this unusual design is made of gingerbread, cookies, sweets, marmalade. It is worth noting that when making it, you need to have at least minimal skills and abilities in making confectionery. Of course, such a gift will make a splash - after all, it is very unusual and beautiful.
• Composition of sweets - sweets can be arranged in the form of a bouquet, a ball (called a topiary), an elegant basket, improvise some kind of fruit, for example, a pineapple. If the gift is intended for an adult, then a bottle of champagne can be added to such a composition - it can be hidden under the sweets or, conversely, become the central element around which sweets will be located.
• Composition of fruits - on the eve of the New Year holidays, tangerines appear on store shelves, from which you can build a beautiful composition - a Christmas tree or a topiary. Tangerines can be combined with walnuts, candies, small bows, toys. It is worth noting that the preparation of such a gift should not wait long for the moment of delivery, since the tangerines can deteriorate.
• Jam, jam, honey - such a gift can be prepared in advance and packed in beautiful jars, cute stickers can be made, perhaps even addressed and with wishes for the New Year. Raspberry jam, jam from oranges, lemons, apricots looks beautiful. Even a beautifully decorated jar of honey will be a welcome gift. You can add walnuts or candied fruits to honey.
• Chocolate - this product is loved by both adults and children. Chocolate can be given in almost any form - it can be chocolate bars, candies, figurines. The main thing is to beautifully pack such a gift.
• Cakes - those who know how to bake cakes do not have to rack their brains over a gift.Eclairs, baskets, meringues, profiteroles, bouchets - will not leave anyone indifferent. They can be packed in a beautiful box, basket, laid out on a dish and wrapped in transparent mica. The gift is wonderful, but its implementation period is limited.

Sweet gifts can also be purchased ready-made - it can be a set of assorted chocolates in festive packaging, a box of chocolates, a beautifully decorated box of marshmallows or marmalade, cookies in an elegant tin can with a New Year's theme.

Small souvenirs or unusual surprises can become pleasant gifts for the New Year. For those who have the skills of decoupage, scrapbooking, modeling from polymer clay, felting or other types of handicraft, it will not be difficult to make New Year's mini-gifts for loved ones and loved ones.

You can think of other pleasant types of congratulations:

• cinema tickets, bowling, billiards;
• musical card with poems of his own composition;
• mini collage of photos;
• a small pot with seeds of Provencal herbs for germination;
• aromatic sachet with dried flower petals;
• an invitation to a skating rink, tubing.

Even a small souvenir will leave a good memory in a person's soul, if presented with sincere and good wishes. Try not to forget anyone on these hectic and funny days - it is very important for any person to realize that he is remembered, loved and appreciated.

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