Friendship day is round the corner, and handmade gifts are a win-win – you get the satisfaction of creating something, and your friends get to see how much they mean to you. The best thing is, with all the required components, simple instructions and a wide selection of DIY kits available at your fingertips these days, going the handmade route is easier than ever. And you don’t have to be a artistic genius to create something beautiful.
So (drumroll) here goes: 7 spectacular ideas for handmade friendship day gifts:
DIY friendship bracelets
This is a tradition old as the day itself – bracelets to mark your territory – she is MY friend! Mine! MINE! Anyway, now you can create custom friendship bracelets using colorful threads or beads yourself. You can make matching bracelets for yourself and your friend or opt for unique designs that reflect each other’s personalities. Simple, fun, effective.
Funky, personalized photo frame
Express yourself with handmade cards
As we always say, it’s the thought that counts. A simple greeting card with a heartfelt message will often be cherished more dearly than expensive gifts. If you like the idea of creating your own cards, you can get some card paper, write a beautiful message, and jazz it up with vibrant vinyl, cool crystal and fabulous foam stick-ons! We bet your friend would love it!
(P.S. and if you enjoy creating these, you can check out this full-fledged greeting card kit, with cards, envelopes, stickers and so much more!)
The perfect social media post
So you are creative, but less in a glue-and-scissors way and more in a digital sense? Cards are classic, but why not leverage technology to tell your friend (and the whole world!) how much they mean to you?
With a wee bit of help from Predis.ai, you can create stunning Instagram posts that will announce to the world what a great friend XYZ is, allow others to celebrate your friendship, plus get you a ton of likes (hehe). That’s a win-win surely! Free plan allows sharing directly to Insta!
Homemade cookies with baked-in love
If your friend has a sweet tooth, and is not watching their weight, ahem, and you are not averse to spending a bit of time in the kitchen, why not bake them a batch of hot, fresh cookies? Get your hands on some high quality cookie mix (the recipe comes on the box!), a bag of chocolate chips, and turn up on their doorstep with some sweet, mushy, gooey chocolate cookies love!
Curate a gift basket!
What’s better than a gift? A lot of gifts! Stuffed inside a beautiful basket! If you’ve always been fascinated with the Oscars goodie bags, or, closer home, the gift hampers on Koffee with Karan, this is your chance to gift the same fascination to your friend. At Angroos, you can create a gift basket exactly as you want – choose the basket, set a budget and select from 250+ options to fill in!
Gift green!
Another thoughtful gift that will grow with your friend (hehe), is a plant that you have potted yourself. If your friend has a green thumb, this is the perfect handmade gift – it can last potentially forever, and every time your friend tend to it, they will think of you. Plus it’s good for the environment!
Best of all, with thoughtfully created DIY kits home-delivered to you, there’s no mess, no hauling pots, no digging up mud – just pot-n-go! Great options available at Nursery Live and Bombay Greens.
Go ahead, get busy! Give your friend a gift that shows them just one more time how lucky they are to have a buddy like you. ❤
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