Christmas is just around the corner, and Her Campus is here to help you get crafty this holiday season by providing some creative do-it-yourself holiday gift ideas! These gifts are perfect if you’re tight on a budget, or if you’re looking for some easy and thoughtful gift-giving options. Spread the holiday spirit and spoil those that you love, the DIY way!
1) Homemade Natural Rose, Lavender, and Oatmeal Bath Bombs
This is a great gift option for all of the lovely women in your life who cherish bath time! The recipe is pretty simple and is a great option because it includes oatmeal, which helps sooth dry skin in the cold winter months. The rose petals add a pretty touch to the gift, and will make those close to you feel like a princess in the tub.
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2) Grown-up Hot Chocolate Mix in a Jar
This is an easy holiday gift option that will help warm up your friends the right way during the cold winter months. You can even dress up your mason jar a little more by adding a bright red bow, candy cane, or by attaching handmade cards or Christmas name tags to the jar to personalize your gift a little bit more.
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3) Homemade Peppermint Sugar Scrub
This is an impressive looking gift that is extremely easy and can be put together with a lot of ingredients that you probably already have at home. The instructions call for sugar, baby oil, and peppermint extract (if you can’t find peppermint extract, substitute it for mint essential oil from Bath and Body Works). A lot of sugar scrub recipes substitute baby oil for coconut oil, which is a must-have beauty hack for beautiful, radiant skin. Crush up some red and green candy canes and add them into your scrub to add some festive colors. Package the scrub in a decorated mason jar, with a candy cane and handmade label!
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4) Marble Nail Polish Mugs
These mugs are extremely easy to make, yet look really impressive! All you need to do is pour some nail polish into a container filled with hot water, swirl it around, and dip a plain white mug into the mix. Let the mug sit and dry over night and you’ll be ready to wrap them up for your friends in the morning!
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5) Festive Glitter Candles
This is a simple and inexpensive gift idea for friends and family. Buy several plain white candles in different heights and sizes. Tape the top section of the candle with duck or painting tape to create a clean line before applying the Mod Podge and red glitter to the bottom of the candles. You can even place all the candles on a medium sized dish tray and add additional Christmas décor around your candles such as pinecones, holly, peppermint candies, or Christmas chocolates.
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6) Personalized Holiday Mugs
Here’s another great DIY mug gift option! This gift idea is great because you can personalize plain and inexpensive mugs with oil-based markers, which, if baked, stay on the mug permanently. Make monogrammed mugs with your friends’ initials on them, personal messages, or festive sayings and drawings such as snowmen faces, holly, ornaments, snow flakes, or draw on a red and green candy cane handle. You can purchase oil-based markers at craft stores such as Michaels in every color, including metallic gold and silver!
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7) Cookie Mix in a Jar
This classic gift never gets old because the holidays are all about treating yourself, right? This gift option is extremely easy and even more affordable. Take a trip to the grocery store or bulk barn and layer the ingredients of your favorite cookie recipe in a mason jar. Decorate the mix by attaching a hand written recipe to the jar and a festive bow. You can also buy festive sticker tags from craft stores, which you could write the cookie instructions on as well. The instructions for the cookie mix in the picture provided are for toffee pecan cookies, but you could also do a classic chocolate chip cookie mix with red and green M&Ms!
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8) Mulling Spice Home Scent
This is a great gift idea for family and maybe your boyfriend’s parents. It’s extremely simple if you’re not particularly crafty, because all you have to do is place some yummy spelling ingredients into a cute jar. This recipe calls for some cinnamon sticks, dried citrus peel, cardamom pods, dried pieces of ginger root, nutmeg, brown sugar, flower petals, and dried fruit such as cranberries or coconut, making a perfect medley of fall/winter scents. Decorate the jar how you would like and attach a handmade spice label on your lid!
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I hope that these DIY gift options take some stress off of gift giving this year! If you’re looking for some more festive DIY holiday gift ideas, Pinterest is booming with creative bloggers that are here to help you get crafty this season!