What’s the Project? Do you love giving handmade gifts to the people you love on holidays or for their birthday or other special occasions? If you’re looking for ideas to make, this list has got great creative gifts that you can make by hand for everyone on your list!
If you’re someone who loves to make handmade gifts for the people on your list at the holidays, you probably start thinking about and planning for those gifts early in the season! It takes time to make those special gifts, right?
If you’re digging around, trying to find ideas to create beautiful homemade gifts for the people you love this year, I want to help you. This is a HUGE list of ideas for everyone on your list.
I’m hoping it will inspire you in your handmade gift making this year and you will find a lot of happiness crafting these great ideas!
CRAZY LITTLE PROJECTS TV
There are gifts for kids here, for women (think sisters, moms, friends), creative ideas for men (they can be way harder right?), and even neighbors and friends.
How many gifts do you usually make when you gift? Do you do all of them handmade or just some special ones? What are your favorite handmade gift ideas?
Let’s take a peek at these ones and get those ideas flowing!
Handmade Gifts for Everyone on Your List:
These are broken down by category a little bit to help you find what you are looking for! And then they link out to other sources for more ideas, depending on which of the categories are most interesting to you.
Handmade Gifts for Women:
Here are some great handmade gifts that you could make for the women in your life.
Every woman is different, some love being in the kitchen, some are working and might like something for their workday, others love to go out on the town…you get the idea!
Think about what the ladies you are thinking about might love based on their personality and then look at some of these ideas and see what you think she might like!
Check these ones out below and then be sure to look at this list of gifts to sew for women to add to your ideas!
Peppermint Sugar Scrub (other flavors too!):
Lavender Lemon Soap (other flavors too!):
Handmade Gifts for Teens:
OK, let’s all admit that teens can be some of the hardest people on our list to find something great for, right?!
The easiest thing is often money or electronics, but if you’re wanting to make something a little more sentimental, here are some great handmade gift ideas you could try making for the teens in your life this year!
I’ve got to admit, most of these are kind of girly, but several could be tweaked for boys. If you have ideas for boys, feel free to share in the comments!
Handmade Gifts for Kids:
Making cute handmade gifts for kids is a little easier-there are tons of options! Here are a few great gifts that you can make for the kiddos this year.
If you love to sew, you could also try these gifts to sew for boys and gifts to sew for girls. There are also some fun toys you could sew and all of these gifts to make for kids for Christmas. Seriously, so many ideas for handmade gifts for kids. They are so easy to make things for! This list could go on and on!
Handmade Gifts for Neighbors:
I love doing fun neighbor gifts! It’s just so much fun to let your neighbors know you appreciate them at Christmas, isn’t it?! Now, I admit that I usually do so many neighbor gifts (I really love a lot of neighbors) that making them all is hard, so I don’t always, but I do love to! Check out these handmade neighbor gift ideas:
Homemade Peppermint Bath Bombs:
Handmade Gifts for Men:
Ah, men! These may be the hardest of the handmade gift ideas to come up with-at least they are for me! One year I actually crocheted my husband an afghan. I think it took me about 80 hours and I started in August…that was a labor of love! But let’s take a look at some simple ideas for handmade gifts that men will love!
OK, that was a lot of handmade gift ideas and links to other posts with even more handmade gift ideas, so hopefully, it really got those wheels turning in your mind about great gifts that you can put together for the people that you love this year!
What are your favorites that you’re going to make?
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Heather S says
October 25, 2014 at 9:39 amYou are so crafty! Love your ideas! Thank you so much for sharing!
Katie says
October 27, 2014 at 11:56 amYou have such a good site! Thank you!
Nataša says
October 29, 2014 at 4:39 amI love hand made, this ideas are so interesting, I like it!
Patricia Stowe says
November 2, 2014 at 6:50 pmSo many great ideas! …making my list!
shruti gupta says
January 26, 2017 at 4:33 amvery creative ideas
vinayak says
March 8, 2019 at 6:58 amI love hand made, this idea is so interesting, I like it!
Amber says
March 14, 2019 at 12:42 pmThanks!