My friend, age 13, forgot that her sister's 20th birthday was today and doesn't have a present to give her. I need some easy homemade gift ideas for her to make.
2006-09-28 09:44:15 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
A picture frame:
Cut out words from a magazine, and deco pauge (no idea how to spell it) onto the frame.
This would be easier if we knew what items she had available to help make a gift. A hot glue gun? What?
2006-09-28 09:53:03 · answer #1 · answered by FaZizzle 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The cookie mix in a jar is a good idea if you know the recipient loves to bake but sometimes people are lazy and will just put the gifts aside and forget about baking them. When people receive gifts most of the time, they are looking for something they can use and eat right away. If I'm going to give an edible gift, I would want the recipient to devour it right after they unwrap the surprise. So it's better to just bake the cookies yourself and cellophane wrap them. Cellophane comes in different colors you can get them at an arts & crafts store. And you can put the goodies in small decorative tin cans or in gift bags. I like giving out homemade powdered milk candy aka "polvoron". You only use 4 ingredients. Here is the recipe: Ingredients/Materials: • All-purpose Flour: 4 cups • Powdered Milk: 2 cups • Butter (Melted): 1 ½ cup • Finely granulated sugar: 2 cups • Japanese paper/Cellophane wrap • square baking pan Method of Preparation: 1) Put four cups of flour in a pan and heat over medium flame for nearly 15 minutes. Continue to stir constantly until the flour becomes light brown in color. Do not stop stirring to avoid burning the flour. 2) Once the flour becomes golden brown, turn off the heat and empty the flour into a big bowl. 3) Add powdered milk to the bowl and mix it well with the flour for 3-4 minutes. 4) Add melted butter and finely granulated sugar and mix well, until the mixture becomes homogenous. 5) Fill the mixture in the square pan and press it hard with the help of a spoon. The mixture should be thick and firm. If it is too loose, add more butter and olive oil until it becomes thick enough to enable you to pick up a Polvoron from the mold without it crumbling away. 6) Place the square pan in the fridge until the mixture begins hard. Then cut it into squares. 7) Once firmed, wrap each Polvoron individually in Japanese paper or cellophane and store them in the fridge. Home-made Polvoron can be stored for a maximum of 7 days. You can also freeze them to store them for a longer period of time. Wrapping them in colorful papers and packing in gift boxes or baskets can make a wonderful gift during festive seasons.
2016-03-26 21:44:05 · answer #2 · answered by Lisa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will need a see through glass jar (a jar that is used for caning food will do fine or u can buy something nicer) you also will meed glue, and tissue paper.
what you do is tear the tissue paper into little squares or whatever shpe you like it is nice if you have a veriety of colors. than you can glue the tissue paper onto the glass jar. You can make a pictue with the paper if u are artistic. Or u can just mak a jumble of the differant colors. THAN you place the canddle into the glass jar and the result will look like a stained glass window. IF YOU WANT YOU CAN ADD A PRETY RIBON AROUNG THE JAR good luck i hope this helps
2006-09-28 09:54:47 · answer #3 · answered by 57865985 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Get out the paper.....crayons....pens or what ever and start with a homemade card
Add some fun by clipping words out of magazines or newspapers
If you have any glass jars like lipton ice tea drink etc ....finish off the drink and paint or decorate with markers words etc
If you have a garden pick some flower fill the little glass
2006-09-28 09:49:32 · answer #4 · answered by playemncem 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
handmade soaps:
take a bar of plain dove soap and melt it in the microwave in a bowl. Mix in oatmeal and brown sugar, mix, allow to cool a bit and mold into a shape or poor into a mold of some kind and allow to cool (not in the fridge). Make others with shaved lemon rind, or get scents at the craft store.
Or tell her to make a homemade gift card good for a dinner of her choice with her sis or a free car wash or something.
2006-09-30 16:16:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
well she can make a cake or a birthday card that is what i would do but anything home made is the best kinda gift a person can give to someone because then they know it came from the heart and not just because they thought it was good enough for them...
2006-09-28 09:48:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
COOKIE DOUGH !! made into logs, wrapped and ready for the freezer. The sister can then bake later on when she feels like it without making a messy kitchen !!!
: )
2006-09-28 11:59:02 · answer #7 · answered by Kitty 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If your friend's sister likes to cook, try a recipe jar!
Basically, these are jars full of ingredients ready to cook/bake and the jar is tied with nice ribbon. Real cute.
2006-09-28 09:47:07 · answer #8 · answered by bluvw 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Go to a craft store buy some elastic cord and make a beaded bracelet
2006-09-28 09:54:22 · answer #9 · answered by ! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Baked goods....cookies, pie, cake, rice cripsy treats, no bake cookies, brownies, whatever you can whip up.
2006-09-28 09:56:30 · answer #10 · answered by amalia372005 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋