Cheap Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas

Categories: Holidays | Christmas | Christmas Crafts & Decoration

  • This page is full of cheap homemade Christmas gift ideas for your whole family. These are made from natural materials that you gather on trips to visit extended family members or everyday materials that you save up through the year. Most of these can be made up ahead of time and sold for fundraisers, too.

  • Homemade Wreaths

    Homemade Christmas or advent wreaths are made on a frame of grape vines. Do you know anyone who grows grapes? Weave the grape vines into a sturdy frame, and secure the frame in a circle with wire. Next, attach the greenery. Evergreen boughs are traditional, with pine cones for decoration. Lovely wreaths can be made from red roses with their greenery attached. In tropical climates some shrubbery can be used for the greenery. These wreaths traditionally decorate the front door of the house. They are also thoughtful cheap homemade Christmas gift ideas for senior citizens who live in nursing homes, to decorate the door to their room.

  • Homemade Mistletoe Bouquet

    Mistletoe grows on oak trees. It is particularly apparent in fall and winter because it is green while the oak branches are barren. Because of this mysterious winter greenness, Mistletoe is believed to have magical properties. Specifically, a man and a woman who stand under the Mistletoe at the same time are compelled to kiss each other! Cut the Mistletoe as long as possible. Bunch 6 or 8 strands into a bouquet. Tie the bouquet together with a red ribbon. Use a Christmas tree ornament wire hanger to hang the bouquet from a hook in the ceiling or a high doorway. This is one of the thoughtful cheap homemade Christmas gift ideas that is great for when you plan on attending a fancy Christmas party, but can't afford much for the hostess gift.

  • Homemade Baked Goods

    Bake up a batch of homemade gingerbread men, decorated sugar cookies, pfeffernusse, pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie tarts, brownies, fudge -- anything sweet. Make your homemade baked goods into gifts by packaging them attractively. If you have saved your used cookie tins through the year, they are optimal for this, but here are some other cheap yet attractive wrapping ideas:

    1. Wrap your homemade baked goods in some red and green plastic wrapping paper from the dollar store.
    2. Put your homemade baked goods in plastic baggies and tie the baggies closed with red and green curly ribbons.

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