
The homemade Christmas gift ideas on this page will give you ideas for personalized, inexpensive Christmas
gifts to make. Obviously, DIY Christmas gifts can easily double as ...
All of them are quick & easy holiday craft gift ideas. There are two categories:
1. Seasonal, Christmas craft freebies, including ...
a) free printable Christmas decorations & easy
to make Christmas ornaments,
b) online printable Christmas cards and free
Christmas gift tags, and
c) homemade Christmas food gifts.
2. Home Decor craft ideas with year-round usability!
Christmas Tree
Ornaments
Check out my collection of creative, homemade
Christmas
tree decorating ideas. They can be used ...
You'll find gilded walnuts, hand made Christmas tree balls, gingerbread decorations, free printable paper craft templates, and much more.
Christmas Lights
Next up, some recycled craft ideas:
Turn small dessert glass jars into hand made Christmas gifts (or use them at home, with other
Christmas
lights and decorations). Click the link for 3 designs to choose from.
The little lights are best handed over in person (rather than sent) - they're a bit too delicate to pack off and mail. But they'll make lovely holiday craft gift ideas for a neighbor or two!
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Christmas
Window Decor
The Christmas window decorations
(pictured left) can be enclosed in a Christmas card and sent in the post.
If you're looking for free Christmas crafts for kids, these very simple homemade Christmas gift ideas are a great place to start.
So download the five paper craft templates and start cutting! Before you know it, you'll be creating your own paper window star designs.
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Printable
Christmas Cards
Print free
Christmas cards - handmade cards are cheap homemade Christmas gifts by themselves.
Or, use the instructions to get inspired with ideas for your own handmade
Christmas card ideas!
The page offers three free downloads:
So don't just print free Christmas cards; personalize these printables, and turn them into Christmas menus, thank-you notes, newsletter covers ... have fun!
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Rum Balls Recipe
My Mother's recipe for rum balls has been
featured in a recent book, The Ultimate Christmas, (by HCI,
publishers of the legendary Chicken Soup series)
Rum balls are super yummy homemade Christmas gift ideas, and you can 'dress them up' in a gazillion creative ways. Then, present them ...
Alternatively, if you're looking for Christmas gift basket ideas, check out my Ideas List for Tuscan Christmas food basket gifts (however, these are a mix of store-bought & homemade Christmas food gifts.)
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The pictures here show three free homemade gift ideas that make great DIY Christmas gifts.
Right: There are many ways to personalize a plain, store-bought notebook into a unique Xmas gift. I've added a list of creative ideas for personalizing other items, too. These are lovely, unique & very inexpensive Christmas gifts to make.
Center: Making a silhouette is much easier than most people think, and one of the prettiest DIY christmas gifts you could make ... reserve for folks who really deserve it!
Left: Doorstops are probably the most off-the-wall of all my homemade Christmas gift ideas, but check out the page for ways to turn anything from antique clutch purses to a pound of pebbles into useful (and handsome) backdoor sentinels. You know, everyone needs a few doorstops. (They make great housewarming gifts, too.)
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Paper Lanterns
The paper lantern pictured left is a
Christmas
craft gift that's perfect for sending by mail. It is designed to fit into a standard
envelope, super easy for the recipient to set up, and one of my best Christmas craft freebies
(if I do say so myself ;-)
There's more paper lantern craft on this site:
Below left, a paper lantern craft idea to fold-and-cut in three pattern designs.
Below center left, make a paper lantern the easy way: download, cut out, glue, and light with an LED tea light. Why waste time?
Below center right (and in the same vein), make paper lanterns f-a-s-t. All you need is midweight letter paper, a pin/needle, some corrugated cardboard and a few lightweight bangles. (The page has a list of further options for this paper lantern style).
Below right, use small doilies (in red and/or white) to spread Christmas cheer in the neighborhood! (This is probably the most fiddly way of making paper lanterns that I've come up with so far, but they are small, cute homemade Christmas gift ideas!)