3rd Day Of Cakemas - DIY Christmas Present Ideas

Hello everyone and welcome back to Cakemas day 3! today I'm going to be showing you some adorable DIY Christmas present ideas (you probably guessed from the title) these presents are great if you are on a budget or just need some cute homemade Christmas present ideas for family and friends.

Hot Chocolate In A Jar

This is such a cute present for a cold winters day for one of your friends or a family member, It also costs around £1 - £2 to make.

You Will Need:

• A Small Container (you could use a recycled tin or buy some small jars)
• Hot Chocolate Sachets
• Mini Marshmallows
• Clear Plastic Wrap
• Ribbons (Optional)
• Labels (Optional)

How To:

• Pour your hot chocolate into your small container.
• add in your mini marshmallows 
• wrap in clear plastic and decorate with festive ribbons and labels (optional) basically go wild. 
• You could add googly eyes and pipe cleaners to your jar to make it look like a reindeer.

 Bag Of Chocolates 

Although this is really self explanatory you could either use their personal favourite chocolate or use one of the (what i call) the Christmas trio which is either Quality Street, Roses or Heroes. Personally I prefer Quality Street but it's your taste. If you brought a big tub you could make these for multiple friends. These cost around £1 each but you have to buy the chocolate and bags in packs.

You Will Need:

• Clear Goody Bags 
• Chocolates Of Your Choice
• Labels, Tags Ext... (Optional)

How To:

• Fill your clear bag with your chocolates.
• Tie the bag at the top with festive ribbon.
• Add tags and again, go wild with decorations.

Scented Bags

These are adorable and smell of Christmas and all things nice, they can be made different to suit your taste. If you want to DIY your potpourri like i did here is a super nice recipe for it.
http://julieblanner.com/homemade-potpourri-gift/

You Will Need:

• Popeary Or An Alternative.
• Christmas Spices 
• Fabrics Of You Choice 
• Sewing Equipment / Hot Glue Gun
• Ribbon 

How To:

• Cut a shape of your choice out of your fabric (make sure you hold over your fabric first so you cut out 2 at a time).
• Sew or hot glue the two pieces of fabric together but make sure your fabric has the right side in and glue the ribbon on at the top too. Also, leave a small un-glued / un- sewed part at the end (hopefully at the bottom) so that you can put in your popeary and spices.
• Add in your popeary and spices and sew or glue up the bottom of the bag and your done!

'Brussel Sprouts' In A Jar 

These are so cute and if you have a family member or a friend who hates brussel sprouts you could give this sweet treat to them. Our brussel sprouts are M&Ms' although you could use any green sweeties.

You Will Need: 

• Green M&Ms'
• Small Clear Jar
• Labels
• Decorations

How To:

• Fill your jar with green M&Ms'
• Add on your label.
• Again, go wild with decorations.

Reindeer Tin 

This is such a lovely and adorable gift and costs nothing just requires a few things you might find in your recycling (or around the house), if you wanted to you could fill it with sweets, chocolate or even little lip balms, shower gels and mini bath bombs.

You will need:

• A Clean Tin
• 2 Small Sticks 
• Newspaper/magazine Or Red Sweet Wrapper 
• Paper And A Pen

How To:

• Make sure your tin is clean and the edges at the top aren't to sharp (you could use a nail file carefully to sand it down)
• Hot glue or use a strong glue to stick on the sticks (or antlers) to the top or the tin so that they are sticking out the top.
• Cut out a red nose out of either your newspaper/magazine or a red sweet wrapper (you could either colour one in) and glue that on to your reindeer's face.
• Make your two eyes out of paper and colour them in and again, glue those on.
• You could make a mouth out of wool, colour one o find something in, if you wanted to but it's still looks cute without one.
• If you wanted to you could fill them with small gifts and them gift to a friend or just give them this adorable pot that could be used for makeup brushes or pens. It also could be used as a decoration if you wanted!. 

 Santa's Snacks

For this DIY I'll leave it up to your imaginations or maybe do a post on it. These will be little bags of treats you can hand out to your friends and they are all so festive. You could either present it as a hamper for one person or as small bags for you friends. 

Hope you enjoyed this blog I absolutely loved making all the things and hope this has benefited you and made Christmas a little less stressful. P.S I will be doing a separate blog on Santa's Snacks which will be coming soon, see you next time!

Lyeira.