1. Add money on their campus card
With second semester quickly approaching, your fellow Raven would definitely appreciate extra funds on their campus card to buy textbooks and other Carleton gear for the new year.
2. A home-made first-aid kit
As the weather takes a turn for the worse, many Carleton students can suffer from the cold or the flu. Luckily for the classmates on your shopping list, they will have a kit to help them get through the winter. Throw together a DIY first-aid kit using some sort of pain reliever, band-aids, cold medicine, and some rubbing alcohol and whatever else you think their heart desires, and you’re good to go!
3. The Organizher
Your friend living on res will thank you for this one. With 10 opening slots, it can easily organizeyou’re your cards: room key, campus card, and bus pass and all. Available at your local Target.
4. Tickets to a Ravens game
Give the gift of school spirit this holiday season. Treat your fellow collegiate to a Ravens home game. With basketball and hockey in full swing and continuing after the holiday season, you and your bestie will have plenty of time to cheer on the Ravens.
5. A day on the Rideau Canal
Start off by renting skates from either Capital Skates or Dow’s Pavilion (they are $12 an hour or two hours for $16). If you already have skates, you can treat them to a nice lunch at one of Dow’s Lake restaurants where you rent skates. Don’t forget to pick up a beavertail and hot chocolate while you enjoy Canada’s longest skating rink to warm up those hands!
6. A Carleton print
This custom print (available on Etsy.com) is the perfect gift for your friend who owns every Carleton souvenir already. With Carleton visible in the background and the Rideau Canal in front, this picture can hang proud in their room and showcases some of the best parts of Ottawa.
7. Ravens nail decals
For your one girlfriend whose nails are always painted, decals that show off her Raven Pride are the perfect gift. Also available on Etsy.com, these decals feature ravens in various poses.
8. A DIY sewing kit
This gift is great and thoughtful for those students who are away from home. Rather than tossing their favourite shirt out because it has a hole in it, they will be able to fix it with this awesome gift. For one variation of this, you can check out a tutorial on http://thepapermama.com/2011/10/diy-sewing-kit-in-jar.html. Or you can always be creative and put together your own unique version.
9. A SMAKK card
For the locavore on your list, this Ottawa-based company lets you get gift cards for locally-owned business. You choose from one of three ‘markets (Ottawa, Toronto, Western Canada), browse from 40 different merchants, and once you have picked a store you know your friend would love, just pick a dollar amount and a delivery method, the cards can be mailed or emailed. You can even include a custom note! It’s a more personal twist on a holiday classic.