Inexpensive Gifts to Make at Home - Ideas For the Budget Conscious

If money is tight or short for one reason or another, there are plenty of ideas for inexpensive gifts to make at home. There are gift ideas for men and women as well as boys and girls. It also doesn't matter what the reason is for the gift. You could need a gift for a baby shower, graduation, anniversary, or house-warming. Whatever your reason, you can make an inexpensive gift at home.

This article will give you some ideas for inexpensive gifts to make at home.

• Gift in a jar

Gifts in a jar are great inexpensive gifts to make at home. They are so much fun to make and are perfect for a single person or a family that is always on the go. You can find recipes online for whatever you are looking for. Soups, cake mixes, brownies, or pancake mixes are just a few of the ideas you can include in a jar. All you do is add the dry ingredients to the jar and seal it. On the outside you can decorate the jar in anyway you want to go with the reason for the gift. Then you print or write out the recipe and attach to the jar with a ribbon. Then add a bow to the top and it's ready to go.

• Pictures

Here is another good idea for inexpensive gifts to make at home. If you have pictures of family members, friends, or an event you can create a collage of pictures. To do this you will need to either print or develop the pictures, and then you will need construction paper or poster board and glue or tape. Put the pictures in whatever order you wish, then secure them to the paper. You can write little notes or add stickers above or below each picture. You can add a frame to this, but the price goes up when you do that, so it's just as nice to give it without the frame.

• Candles

Do you have candles sitting around, that you have never used? Candles are perfect if you are looking for inexpensive gifts to make at home. A neat idea for women is to give candles. Take four or five votives and put them in plastic wrap then use a ribbon around the top and add a nice card. You can also use a basket and add a holder to the votives.

Hobby stores have kits that you can purchase that will show you how to make candles yourself. These kits make quite a few candles so you could have several gifts from one kit if you went with this option.

Hobby stores may also have other kits that are reasonable in price that contain several things that you can make and give away. These stores sometimes have free classes that you can take that will help you with inexpensive gifts to make at home.

Just because funds are tight doesn't mean you can't give a nice, thoughtful and creative gift. There are many ideas for inexpensive gifts to make at home. Look at what you have around the house and think about what you know how to make. You may be surprised at how quickly you come up with inexpensive gifts you can easily make at home.

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