These creative Christmas souvenir ideas are simple and fun to put together and include printable tags to go with each gift.
It’s that time of year when everyone is on the venery for creative and unique Christmas gifts to requite to neighbors, teachers, co-workers and all the other people we know and love.
Today I’m sharing four fun Christmas souvenir ideas that all have a handmade touch without stuff labor intensive. I created printable Christmas souvenir tags to go with each gift, so that should save you time.
Everything I used I purchased at Hobby Lobby. They have so many cute items that would make good Christmas gifts. I love that it was a one stop shop for gifts, ribbon and all the crafty supplies I needed. Yay!
It doesn’t get any easier than this holiday souvenir idea. I found some cozy kitchen themed holiday items and I’m putting them together for a lovely souvenir that any foodie/decor-enthusiast/homebody would love. These are just the ones I picked, but there are a ton of cute Christmas home goods to segregate from.
The hot cocoa comes in an old-fashioned metal tin and I just couldn’t resist it. So charming! The towels (3 pack) come with a cute string once virtually them, so all you have to do is loosen it a bit, slide in the other cozy goodies, then tie it when up.
I widow some greenery and a little floral pick to make it squint plane increasingly festive. Alternately, you could split up the three towels and only requite one to each person to make it stretch a little further.
I think the printable tag is the perfect finishing touch. It says, “Cozy Christmas Wishes” and really fits the vibe of the gift. And remember, all of the tags are misogynist at the marrow of this post.
This next souvenir is perfect to requite to neighborhood kids or nieces and nephews or grandkids, expressly if you let them unshut it at the whence of the month so they can use the cups throughout December.
I just thought these little ornament cups were too darling! I love the metallic unexceptionable colors.
Step 1: Print the tags onto white cardstock and cut them out by hand or with a Silhouette or Cricut machine. Both file types are misogynist below.
Step 2: Fill the cups with mint candies. I used starlight mints, but you could use mint flavored chocolates or mini snacks canes or any other mint-flavored treat.
Step 3: Tie a piece of baker’s twine virtually the ornament, add the tag, then tie a bow to finish it off.
Easy peasy, but so cute! If you can’t find these specific cups, I spotted a few other darling options:
More Christmas Cup Options
I smelled this Christmas candle in the store and immediately put it in my cart. The scent is tabbed “Christmas Joy” and I’m not sure what it’s supposed to smell like, but I asked my two older kids what they thought it smelled like and they both said, “It smells like Christmas!”
After sniffing this candle for longer than I superintendency to admit, I think it’s got hints of cranberry, pine, some kind of citrus and maybe just a tiny touch of cinnamon? It smells like one of those holiday simmer pots.
Anyway, to make the candle plane increasingly fun to requite as a Christmas gift, let’s turn it into a snowglobe! You will need the pursuit supplies:
Normally when I’ve seen people do this, the candle they use has a lid on it. If you buy a candle with lid, you can nail the snow globe directly to the lid. You once know how I’m obsessed with this candle, so I wanted to icon out a way to make it into a snowglobe sans lid. So let’s do it.
Step 1: Unshut the plastic ornament and trace it onto a piece of white cardstock. Cut the whirligig out well-nigh 1/4 inch from the line you traced so the whirligig is slightly worthier than the ornament.
Step 2: Use hot glue to nail mini trees to the cardstock. You could moreover add little figurines or other miniatures. Just remember that they need to fit inside the ornament half.
Step 3: Add some fake snow to the inside of the ornament half, then line the whet of the ornament with hot glue. Place the cardstock onto the ornament half so that the trees are inside the dome and printing it lanugo securely into the hot glue to seal up all the edges. You don’t want any holes or the snow will fall out.
Step 4: Cut yonder any uneaten cardstock that is showing virtually the edges of the ornament, then tack the snow globe to the top of the candle with the tiniest little dots of hot glue. You want as little glue as will hold the snow globe on without making it nonflexible to get off when you want to use the candle. Alternately, you could use Glue Dots so it peels off nice and easy.
Step 5: Tie a ribbon virtually the candle and nail the cute souvenir tag that says, “May Your Days Be Merry and Bright.” Get it? LOL. I sure do love a good pun.
I saved my favorite idea for last. I saw this Dip Mix hodgepodge in the Christmas treats section and the ideas just started flowing. It’s certainly cute as is, but you know I can never leave well unbearable alone. We’re going to put the dip mix inside of well-spoken Christmas ornaments and add our own darling labels to take this souvenir up a notch.
One tomfool thing well-nigh this is that you can requite all eight dip flavors to one person or divide up the variegated dips to requite to multiple people.
Step 1: Unshut one package of powdered dip mix at a time so you don’t forget which savor you are working with. Take the metal topper off of an ornament and place the funnel inside the hole. Pour the dip mix into the funnel and gently tap the ornament until all of the mix is inside. Replace the metal ornament top.
Step 2: Make labels for each dip variety by writing the dip type on one side of a kraft paper tag, then subtracting a cute gingerbread sticker to the other side. If your handwriting makes you self-conscious, you could unchangingly print out the dip labels, then cut them out and add the cute stickers. But just a side note… write them by hand! It’s increasingly personal that way and nobody is judging you.
Step 3: Nail the tags to each ornament with a bit of baker’s twine. It works weightier to go through the hanging loop on the ornament.
Step 4: If you want to requite all eight flavors of dip as one gift, fill a souvenir box with paper shred, then nestle the ornaments into the box.
Place the box inside a transparent bag, tie it off with ribbon, then add the printable tag that says, “DIP DIP Hurray! It’s scrutinizingly Christmas Day!” with instructions on how to make the dip on the back.
Here’s a closer squint at the printable tag. I cut mine with my Silhouette machine, but I’ve got some you can cut out with scissors too if you don’t have a wearing machine.
If you want to split up the ornaments, use a smaller treat bag instead. They are just the right size for two ornaments. Add some paper shred, then the ornaments, then tie it off with ribbon and add the printable tag.
I like that this souvenir is savory since I typically have wayyyyy too many sugary treats at Christmas time. I moreover like that it’s something that keeps for a while, so you could use the dip without the other holiday treats are long gone… maybe for game day?
So there are the four creative Christmas gifts I came up with. Hopefully it gave you some ideas that work for someone on your list this year. Which idea is your favorite?