With Christmas just around the corner, some of us may be scrambling to put together christmas gifts for friends and family. These gifts are perfect, memorable, and cheap. I have made these gifts for my friends and family and every year they have loved them. The gifts touch on aspects of your relationship that are treasured but not often talked about, and show your appreciation and love for them.
Before and After Photo Album
Perfect for: Parents
Materials Needed: photo album/scrapbook, old photos, something to take photos with
Description: this gift costs very little money, is very easy to make, and very memorable. Simply remake old baby photos and put them into a photo album. This is an amazing gift for parents to show them how you have grown and changed. Add in small messages next to each of the photos. This will show them your appreciation for them and all that they do for you.
Meme Book
Perfect for: Your meme lord friend
Materials Needed: paper, memes
Description: this gift is hilarious and costs no money. There are so many possibilities for how to make this gift, from simply taping your friend’s favorite memes into a book to remaking them using funny photos. Choose your friend’s favorite memes and glue them into a book, to ensure that they will still have an ample supply of memes wherever they go.
TV Character Starter Pack
Perfect for: Friends who love TV
Materials Needed: extensive knowledge of TV character
Description: although this gift costs money, it is an extremely unique way of buying and giving gifts for people. Make a pack of the things that categorize your friend’s favorite TV character, and put them together. This way, your friend is one step closer to becoming their favorite TV character, and it shows them how much you know about them and the things they like.
Original Story
Perfect for: Friends you have known for a long time
Materials Needed: Paper, laptop
Description: an extremely meaningful gift. It costs no money at all, but a lot of hard work. There are so many different ways to tell the story of your friendship, whether it be by basing it off of their favorite TV show or creating a fantasy world to go along with it, but every way will be creative and cherished. To make the gift more fun, add multiple photos of the two of you together and tell your story from a third person perspective.
Photo Album Book
Perfect for: Big groups of friend
Materials Needed: photos, laptop or craft supplies
Description: this costs money and time, but the results are spectacular. You can use the Photos program on your laptop to make this, or there are other online websites that allow you to make online books that can be ordered and professionally printed. If you would like a cheaper version of this, you can purchase scrapbooks from your nearby craft store and create a book by hand, adding photos and messages for your best friends.
Open When Envelopes
Perfect for: Friends who like meaningful gifts
Materials Needed: Paper, pens, envelopes
Description: the perfect cheesy gift for your friends… make as many envelopes as you want for your friends to open when they feel the need to, and fill them with kind messages. It can be difficult to reach out to people from time to time, and these envelopes ensure that they will always have something to make them feel better. I have made this gift for my friends multiple times and each time they loved it.
Your friends and family will treasure these gifts for a long time. DIYS are the most meaningful gifts you can give, and to top it all off they are cheap and fun to make. Show some christmas spirit this year, and DIY!
Darin Sumetanon (10)
