Handmade Christmas: 5 Easy DIY Gifts

“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!” – Buddy the Elf

Embrace the spirit of giving this Christmas season with a touch of DIY magic! In a world filled with store-bought presents, there’s something truly special about crafting your own heartfelt gifts. Today, we’re diving into the joy of 5 Easy DIY Christmas Gifts that are not only a breeze to make but also make perfect tokens of appreciation for teachers and neighbors. Get ready to spread warmth and holiday cheer one homemade gift at a time!

Warm Wishes in a Cup: The Ultimate Hot Chocolate Delight!

What you will need:

• Cute coffee cup
• Hot chocolate
• Crushed candy canes
• Mini marshmallows

The first Christmas gift is a simple one that even the kids would love to get a hand on to help make. You will start by picking out a cute coffee cup. Next you will put in hot chocolate mix, marshmallows and toppings in the cup. To make our gift fun we found these cute tube holders on amazon to put our chocolate and toppings in.

If your looking for a budget friendly gift this still can be done. Here is how you can find all these items at The Dollar Tree and you can just place them in the cup. If you looking for a cute cheap idea while at The Dollar Tree grab a plastic ornament . In the ornament pour in you hot chocolate mix. Add a layer of crushed peppermint and then add a layer of mini marshmallows.

The final touches that can be added to this gift are chocolate spoons and a homemade sugar cookie. We found this easy mold to help us make chocolate spoons. Melt some chocolate chips and pour into the molds. Let sit in the refrigerator for 20 minutes and they are ready to go!

However you put together this gift it makes the perfect easy gift to give.

Oven-Fresh Joy: Gift a Box of Homemade Cookies to Sweeten Christmas!

What you need

• Homemade cookies
• Cute box

Our second Christmas gift idea is perfect to hand out to neighbors! I mean who wouldn’t love a gift box of cookies! When we make this I always think of my Nona. Every year she would make hundreds of cookies to hand out to everyone. She would hand them out to family, bus drivers, postal workers and so much more.

With these you can do one type of cookie or a variety box. This is a gift that can’t be made wrong and perfect to get little ones involved!

Want to add a personalized touch to your sugar cookies Christmas gifts. We found these pretty cool edible ink markers that worked pretty amazing on a sugar cookie with royal icing. And no they didn’t leave a nasty taste to the cookie. I was amazed at how well and not messy these pens were. These could be a fun gift for Aunts and Uncles this holiday season. The girls really enjoying doing this with Grandma.

Sugar & Spice Scrub: Homemade Christmas Gift

This is another gift that would work for teachers, Aunts or neighbors. So simple to make! Note when your making some make a little extra so you can keep a little for yourself. Self care during the holiday’s is a must! This recipe is perfect for the winter season to help with dry hands and feet.

Mix all ingredients together in bowl. Store in a container.

I usually just use a small mason jar with some ribbon tied around to make pretty. Another thing that you can do is pick up a empty Christmas bulb ornament and fill that up with the sugar scrub. Cute with some ribbon it makes the perfect small Christmas gift this season.

From Oven to Heart: Share the Cookie Love

What you need:

• Cute oven mit
• Cookie Mix
• Cute Cooking spoon

This Christmas gift is a favorite from my kids! Buy everything and throw it all together in the oven mit. Super cute and the perfect teacher gift. I always let my kids pick what cookies to put in there. The reason I love this gift so much is so the teacher can have fresh baked cookies on break.

For the oven mit if you can’t find a cute one. Just get a plain color one and vinyl a saying on it. That’s what we did for ours, and if you want, down below feel free to download the image Vickie created! Once you download this you can open in your design space to cut.

Warm Heart: Homemade Loaf Gift

Our final gift is a homemade cake loaf with a cute ceramic baking dish. Walmart holiday section is where we found ours. I was in The Dollar tree last week and they had some Christmas ones as well. You can either go all out for this and do a homemade recipe. Or you can use a box kit like I did.

For ours we went with Pumpkin loaf. If you want you can even add a icing to it as well it’s up to you.

We hope these DIY Christmas gift ideas help you cross off some names on your holiday gift list this year. Let us know in the comments which gifts caught your eye and you’re excited to make.