Make a Homemade Gift Basket

Creating a Present for the Hard-to-Buy-for Person

Dec 8, 2008 Linda Hatton

A handmade basket filled with treasures you personally picked is as much fun to make as it is to give.

Many stores carry premade gift baskets, an ideal gift option for last minute gifts or for those people who already seem to have everything. However, putting together a homemade gift basket will make a more personable gift and may make gift shopping enjoyable instead of nerve-racking.

When considering a gift basket, reflect on the relationship you have with the intended recipient. Family members may be more open to joke gifts than someone you have a professional relationship with.

Flaming Hot Gift Basket

This basket is for the spice lover. Include anything from Flaming Hot Cheetos, spicy olives, spicy sausage, curry sauce, Tabasco sauce, and other spicy foods, to a cold drink, baby wipes, dental floss, breath mints and even hemorrhoid cream. Other options include items to cool down the spice lover after the spicy feast including a hand or battery -operated fan, a spray bottle, and an ice pack.

Children’s Craft Basket

Shop the dollar store for beads, wooden crafting sticks, glue sticks, crayons, stickers, paints, sketch pads, and colored pencils. To save money, cut out magazine pictures or family photos and either glue them onto construction paper or using a homemade sticker machine, make stickers out of these clippings. Enclose these items together in a decorated Ziploc baggie. Consider downloading free craft instructions from the Internet and include them along with the necessary items to create the craft project.

Memory Basket

Make a basket of ancestral memories. Include a disposable camera, mini scrapbook, stickers, hole punch, colored papers, empty frames, glue sticks, ribbons, beads, and even a blank book for your recipient to write down memories. Include a letter from each member of the family which outlines their own favorite memory and any old photos you can find.

Sewing Basket

For a seamstress lover, buy fabric remnants and sewing notions, such as pins, needles, thread, and buttons. Watch for pattern sales and include those or pattern books.

Writer’s Gift Basket

Give this basket to your favorite writer. Items to include are CDs to listen to while writing, a special pen or pen set, blank journals, a box of tea, a candle, and books of poetry. Also, consider adding in a dictionary and thesaurus.

World Christmas Basket

For the ultimate Christmas lover, visit your local import store and buy Christmas decorations from around the world. Add in edible gifts, such as goodies traditionally served at Christmas from a variety of cultures.

There are a limitless number of gift basket ideas that can be created – and crafting one can put the “merry” into Christmas shopping and into Christmas giving.

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