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This year, we’ve decided to keep things simple, natural and sustainable with homemade, natural and DIY Christmas Gift Ideas (and a few select wooden toys for the kids that will (hopefully) last for generations). We are also trying to focus more on experiences than material gifts for the most part.
There are so many great options for DIY homemade gifts, and I hope that others will consider joining me in gift giving this way…
Below are a few of my favorite homemade gift ideas and some suggestions for some simple gift baskets.
DIY Beauty Gift Ideas
Beach Waves Natural Hair Spray
Natural Baby Care Recipes (baby powder, diaper cream, lotion, etc)
Lotion Bars Recipe (all natural, easy to make and amazing for skin!)
Whipped Body Butter Recipe (like Velvet on the skin)
Here is a post with a list of seven ingredients that can be used to make 20+ DIY beauty recipes.
Health Related Gift Ideas
Homemade Magnesium Oil (great for improving sleep, energy, hormones and more)
Herbal Tea Blends (delicious and health boosting)
Healing Clays (for masks, internal and more)
Coconut Oil (because there are 100+ ways to use it!)
Homemade Tooth Powder Recipe (helps sensitive teeth)
Homemade Healing Salve (like Neosporin ™ but natural)
Or, if you are really motivated, you could put together an entire Herbal First Aid and Natural Remedy Kit.
Edible Christmas Gift Ideas
14 Homemade Herb and Spice Blends
Healthy Delicious Chocolate Recipe
Kombucha Starter and Instructions
Miscellaneous
DIY Fleece backed T-Shirt Quilt (one of my husbands favorite gifts I’ve ever given him)
Homemade Buckwheat Pillow or Eye Mask – Just sew a simple rectangle of whatever fabric you’d like filled with some organic buckwheat hulls to make a natural pillow that doesn’t hold body heat and that keeps its shape! You can also add herbs like lavender flowers, yarrow, mint, chamomile and catnip for the gentle scent of herbs to help improve sleep
DIY Canvas Photo Print – A perfect personal gift of a favorite photo for a loved one. A sophisticated and artistic looking canvas, but DIY to avoid the photo lab price tag
Gift Basket Ideas
Herbal Teas Basket: An assortment of homemade herbal tea blends with a natural cast iron tea pot and some tea cups.
Natural Beauty Basket: An assortment of Healing Lip Salve, Tinted Lip Balm, Homemade Lip Stick, Luxurious Sugar Scrub Recipe, Beach Waves Natural Hair Spray, Homemade Dry Shampoo, Lotion Bars, Luxurious Lotion, Whipped Body Butter Recipe and Homemade Deodorant Bars.
Natural Baby Basket: Some or all of these Natural Baby Care Recipes
Mom-to-be or New Mom Basket: This Luxurious Lotion Recipe to help prevent stretch marks, Homemade Magnesium Oil to help with nausea and after pains, Healing Clays for use as a skin mask to prevent the “mask of pregnancy” or itchy skin, Raspberry Leaf Tea to tone the uterus, Homemade Healing Salve for perineum healing post baby, DIY Remineralizing Toothpaste to keep her teeth strong during pregnancy, and of course, some Healthy Delicious Chocolate.
Do you make any homemade gifts? Any ideas to add to the list? Share below!
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Hello, I really appreciate this gift idea. Thanks for sharing.
I really like to make DIY gifts for Christmas. Hopefully my friends will love them. They’re both healthy and yummy.
Hi there, the gift ideas are awesome and would love to gift. Thanks sister!
Thank you very much for this post, I am making a few of these for family this year. But I was wondering if you have anything for men? I need to make something for a teenage boy & im totally stumped, he’s a good kid & would be grateful for anything I make him but I know none of the above is really for him. Any ideas would be fantastic. Btw I tried your turmeric tea (golden milk) & the switchel drink (sorry if spelling wrong) & they are wonderful & im trying to make my first apple cider vinegar thanks to your posts & bought my asthmatic sister a himilayan salt lamp. Thanks from me & my little boy x
Wow, I love so many of these! Great list and so many of them are perfect for quick but thoughtful gifts. We’re moving in a couple of weeks and the holidays are sneaking up on me! I’m excited to try a few of these!
Christmas 2015 gifts for everyone were nice recycle bags ($1.00 at Walmart) to which we added a thin wooden bottom on the inside. We cut wood the thickness of paneling and sanded it smooth, then placed it in the bottom of the bags which made them more sturdy and helps them stand up on their own. I have been using mine regularly for five months and my friends are demanding more. No more floppy bags that collapse in on themselves when filled with canned goods. Wrap up three in decorated Kraft paper, tie with sisal and garnish with a sprig of white pine for a great gift you will see used again and again.
hey!!!
I liked your blog because i also recommend natural remedies to everyone as in my opinion this is more usefull than artificial stuff and home made remedies also don’t have any harmfull effects on the skin. love to hear from you more… Keep writing 🙂
…what would be an acceptable substitute for coconut oil?
What are you trying to substitute it for?
Hi Katie, my 17 year old daughter’s friends know I make everything and they said they wanted ‘homemade’ for Christmas, so we made lotion bars (patchouli, vanilla and eucalyptus), frankincense gold and myrrh bars, peppermint and vanilla lip balm, pumpkin pie brown sugar scrub, and the bath fizzles and menthol shower melts. All your recipes, which were perfect. Thank you 🙂