Intro

Christmas was originally a religious holiday to commemorate the birth of Jesus. Until the 19th century, the appearance of Christmas cards and Santa Claus made Christmas popular. By the mid-19th century, Christmas was celebrated throughout Europe and America, and various Christmas customs were derived.

Exchanging Christmas gifts is one of the customs. In the process of preparing gifts and exchanging gifts, let everyone know how to love and share, but also know how to be grateful and repay. In addition to the finished products in the store, you can also make some simple handicrafts by yourself to give to family and friends, which can better reflect your sincerity. Here are some simple Christmas gift exchange ideas for you.

Knitted Christmas Tree

The Christmas tree is one of the essential elements of Christmas, and the knitted Christmas tree is a gift that is both creative and in line with the theme. If you are a knitting expert, you can go directly to the Internet to find a satisfactory tutorial, buy the required wool, crochet hooks and other materials online, and then start making it.

Don’t worry if this is your first time getting into knitting. Many online stores can purchase ready-made and complete material packages, which contain all the required materials and detailed tutorials. In addition to illustrations, you can also ask the merchant for video tutorials to ensure that you can complete a knitted Christmas tree. This not only ensures your hands-on fun, but also reflects your sincerity.

DIY Candles

DIY candles are also a great Christmas gift exchange idea and are not complicated to make. Here’s a simple way to make it:

1. Preparation materials: You need to prepare an appropriate amount of soy wax (or beeswax or paraffin wax), a wax melting pot, a glass cup, a glass stirring rod, a small induction cooker, essence and dried flowers.
2. Melted wax: Add the prepared soy wax (or beeswax, paraffin wax) to the wax melting pot and heat over water to melt.
3. Fill the cup: Pour the melted wax liquid into the glass.
4. Drop essential oil: Drop the essential oil you like into the wax liquid, and stir it evenly with a glass rod. Control the proportion at about 5% to create a scent.
5. Insert the candle wick: When the wax liquid is almost cooled, insert the candle wick.
6. Decoration: Dried flowers can be used for decoration.
7. Finished: The finished scented candle can be lit or used as a decoration. This hand-made gift carries my most cherished blessing.

Micro Decoration Christmas Log Cabin

A micro decoration Christmas log cabin is also a very atmospheric gift. This is a small house made of small wooden boards or cardboard. The shapes of windows and doors are hollowed out. If small light bulbs are placed in the small room, the light can shine through, which is very beautiful. You can sprinkle white decorations on the roof to create a snow effect, and hang mini Christmas wreaths and Christmas garlands on the windows and doors to make this ordinary cabin more Christmassy. If you glue a piece of string to the top of the roof, you can also hang it on the Christmas tree as a decoration. Your friend will be very happy to receive such an exquisite gift.

Handmade Greeting Cards

Christmas cards are one of the indispensable items for celebrating Christmas. It is a very warm thing to write blessings on it and send your best wishes to your relatives and friends. Although with the advancement of technology, especially the developed Internet, more abundant electronic greeting cards have been born. But the ritual sense of physical greeting cards cannot be replaced by electronic greeting cards.

You can find many greeting card making tutorials on the Internet. If you think those are too complicated, you can take out a piece of paper and simply fold it in half to make a greeting card. Draw a simple sketch inside and paste a photo of you and your friends, and it will become a unique greeting card. Your friend will be sure to appreciate your sincere friendship when they receive a unique handmade greeting card made by you. This is definitely one of creative Christmas gift exchange ideas.

Handmade Photo Frame

Christmas is the most important and lively festival of the year, covering many topics such as reunion, family and friendship. Giving a handmade photo frame as a Christmas gift to your special someone is a very romantic thing. The most precious thing for everyone is time and memory, and photos can record our most meaningful and beautiful moments. The purpose of a photo frame is to protect photos and give them a place to display. And sending a photo frame means that you hope that all the meaningful things for him can be preserved, so that you can have more memorable moments between you. This also shows how important he is to you. Your friends will be moved to tears if they receive a handmade photo frame from you.

Christmas Wreath

The Christmas wreath is a beautiful decoration filled with religious symbolism from different cultures. It expresses spiritual belief in eternal life and spiritual rebirth. For Christians, it is a way of announcing the miraculous birth of the Holy Child. Therefore, at Christmas time, many people hang a Christmas wreath on their door or wall. Christmas wreaths are useful Christmas gift exchange ideas. Next, we briefly introduce a production method:

Preparation materials: straw rings, thin green flower wire, branches and leaves (preferably pine branches or other branches with lush leaves), and small decorative flowers.

1. Wrap one end of the flower thin wire around the straw ring to fix it.
2. Tie the branches and leaves to the grass ring clockwise with wire and fix it.
3. The branches and leaves must be tied densely so that the straw loop is not exposed.
4. Wrap the flower branches almost once, check if there are any gaps, and then fill in the branches and leaves. Once it’s complete, just tie it with a pretty ribbon.

For children, Christmas is a beautiful fairy tale, a story about love and integrity. Santa Claus comes as scheduled every year to deliver favorite gifts to children. He is the old man who loves children the most and understands them the most in the world. On this holiday, children all over the world are treated with tenderness at the same time, and our children can feel that they are deeply loved. Only a person who has been deeply loved has the courage and strength to love others. This is a kind of transmission of love.