How to make a New Year's gift?
The variety of gifts is so great that very muchit is difficult to choose something specific. Make holiday memorable you will help thematic gifts. They need to be chosen, taking into account human interests. Also it is worth paying attention to what his profession is. So, for example, a friend or colleague who likes to go fishing in nature, you can give a souvenir associated with fishing. You can give the communicator a table clock, power - a keychain in the form of a light bulb.
But sometimes I want so that our gift is alsopleasantly surprised people close to us. Especially acute is the problem of how to make a New Year's gift. In festive vanity, everyone will be pleased to receive a souvenir made with a soul and carrying a lot of kindness and care.
Gift with your own hands
Homemade gifts are a great opportunity to demonstrate their abilities and show attention to their relatives and friends.
Family members will be very pleased to receivea gift so warmly knitted in our cold winter. It can be a lovely sweater with embroidered deers or a scarf with the name of your brother's favorite football team. For a small child, you can make a knitted soft toy or scarf in the form of an animal with bulky paws and ears.
Make a New Year gift with your own handsquite simply. For colleagues or classmates, you can make a wall newspaper in the form of a Christmas tree, pasting on it the figures of Father Frost and Snow Maiden, as well as the most ridiculous photos from your parties and corporate parties. Be sure to write a congratulation in a poetic form with humor.
Recently, technology has gained popularityscrapbooking. With its help, unusually original things are created. Especially impressive are the photo albums created in this technique. You will need cardboard and various small items for decoration: shells, buttons, rhinestones, lace, sequins, fabric. From the cardboard, the album is made, the cover is wrapped in cloth and decorations from various materials are pasted on top.
For a gift you can make an article from variousmaterials: cardboard, buttons, plasticine. You can also make a panel of natural material (cones, acorns) and decorate it in an unusual frame. Be creative. The main thing is that the work was authored and not similar to others.
Paper products
You can give a picture created in technologyquilling. This technique consists in the construction of flat or volumetric compositions from spirals twisted into different in form from long and narrow strips of paper. You can wind the paper on an awl or even a toothpick. And special kits for this lesson can be purchased at the store or made from color double-sided paper. From twisted spirals are patterns or compositions of colors. They also decorate the frame for photos, albums, gift boxes.
Painted souvenirs
If you bought a bottle of a new drink as a gift, you can decorate it with glass on the original. For this purpose, acrylic paints are best.
It is possible in this way to make a New Year's giftwith their own hands and give the painted dishes along with a drink inside. On it, represent the symbol of the New Year or transfer some patterns to the winter theme. Before drawing the picture, it is necessary to wipe the bottle with alcohol. Then you need to dilute the PVA glue with water in a ratio of one to one and draw patterns. But it is desirable to practice first on paper.
When the glue dries, you can draw a pattern using gouache (do not replace it with watercolor). Top it is recommended to cover with a colorless varnish.
If you know how to embroider, then the original picture or pillow with an embroidered plot on the life of a person, elements of his hobbies, will look original.
Edible gifts
Cooking lovers and just those who do not mindpamper yourself with delicious, we propose to make a mixture for hot chocolate. The most common ingredients will be needed. In a bowl, you need to mix two cups of dried milk (preferably defatted), a partial cup of sugar, half a cup of cocoa powder (plain unsweetened), dry cream for coffee and chocolate chips. Add salt on the tip of a teaspoon. Pick a beautiful tin or glass jar with a lid and pour the resulting mixture into it.
A gift to mom
Next we will give you a couple tips on how tomake a New Year's gift to mom. It is very important to pay attention to the most important person in our life. Parents do not need expensive pretentious gifts. It will be enough for them to see that you care about them.
- Mom will be pleased with a silk or satin scarf, which will be painted by you in batik technique. As an option, a gift for the sofa cushions, also painted or embroidered with rhinestones or beads.
- Or, as in childhood, you can draw a portrait of your mother and sign it with various touching phrases.
- Your mother will appreciate the gift, which is a set of elite teas. To each box you can attach a card-card, carved from paper with sincere wishes.
- Buy the basket or make itwith your own hand, if you know how to weave from straws, and collect all kinds of sweets that your mother loves. It will be very nice for her to get something from a little Santa Claus or Snow Maiden.
- As a gift, a souvenir withthe image of your mother or your whole happy family. It is necessary to sort through the archive of photos and choose the best ones. You can make a photobook with the help of cardboard and glue. If funds permit, then order with this image a photo circle, a photo calendar or a photo poster.
- It is known that women adore different things,which create a cosiness in the house. Paraffin candles also belong to such subjects. You can make them yourself and give them to your mother for the New Year. To do this, prepare paraffin (old candles are suitable), dye, essential oil, thread for the wick, mold and some cargo. First you need to melt the paraffin in a water bath (it can not be heated on an open fire). The walls of the mold are coated with liquid soap. Place the wick strictly in the middle in an upright position. This will help you weight. Tie it to one end of the thread and put it on the bottom of the container, and tie the upper end to the pencil and put it over the mold. In the melted paraffin add the dye, oil and pour it into the mold in a thin trickle. Wait for the candle to cool completely. It easily gets out of the form, if you pull the pencil.
Where and with whom you would meet the New Year, giftsyou can do it yourself quickly, without spending a lot of money on things that, perhaps, will not bring so many pleasant emotions in comparison with your self-made souvenirs.
