10 DIY CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS

Christmas is coming up and so is the holiday gifting season! It can sometimes be daunting to give gifts. We at the cozy cottage find that sometimes the best gift is a personalized and more meaningful one. We absolutely love making Christmas gifts ourselves, so we created a list of 10 DIY gifts to inspire you, no matter your crafting skills.

1. Handmade Ornaments

Handmade ornaments can be very easy to make, even if you don't know how to sew. For a 3D ornament, you can sew together pieces of felt and can use poly-fil as the stuffing. However, simply painting pieces of felt or hot-gluing layers of felt together would be an easy way to create a unique ornament.

2. Duplicate Stitching Personalization

Did you know that you can add just about any pattern to a knitted garment with the simple method of duplicate stitching? With just one YouTube tutorial you can become an expert in no time and get to adding kitschy patterns on your knitted gift. 

3. Baked Goods Box

Another great idea that can be personalized to anyone's tastes. Tip: adding tea bags or chocolates to a box of baked goods can make it just the more special.

4. Sweetness in a Jar

Gifting someone homemade jam or a hot cocoa mix in a mason jar can be so great for personalizing. You can decorate these jars to your liking, with ribbons and custom tags. The best part about this is that you can make something sweet in bulk and give little sweetness-filled jars to everyone at Christmas.

5. Crochet Keychains

Do not be intimidated, crocheting is an easy skill to learn. With most dollar stores selling crochet supplies, what better opportunity to give the gift of a personalized crocheted keychain.

6. Sock Animals

There is a world of knowledge on how to make sock animals. Again, YouTube is your friend in this case, as there are countless types of fuzzy sock animals to make.

7. Handmade Candles 

This handmade gift would require a trip to the craft store for candle wax and to the thrift store for a teacup or mason jar, but if you have the time, this would make the cutest DIY home decor to gift to someone.

8. Custom Embroidery Details

This minimalist style of embroidery is also a simple hobby to pick up. With some coloured thread and a needle, you can turn plain tea towels or placemats into something eye-catching.

9. DIY Colouring Book

The easiest way you can make a colouring book for someone is to simply buy a sketchbook and draw on each page with a fine-tip marker. If you are familiar with drawing on a tablet, you could make drawings on apps such as Procreate and Sketchbook, print them out and finally attach the papers together with paper fasteners.

10. Handmade Bookmarks

Handmade bookmarks can be made of cardstock but felt bookmarks can be just as simple to make. With some hot-glue it some needle and thread you can recreate any number of cute felt bookmarks.