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Add a special handcrafted touch to your gifts this year! These homemade gifts for teachers, neighbors, and coworkers are inexpensive, easy to make, and one-of-a-kind.
The holiday season can be such a fun and exciting time, but it can also get stressful.
Especially when you have a dozen (or more) coworkers, neighbors, teachers, or friends to get gifts for.
Thinking of something that is affordable, easy, and suitable for that many people can feel like a daunting task.
I’ve found that homemade is the way to go! Homemade gifts offer your recipients something that they couldn’t buy themselves. You can stretch your dollar and customize your gifts as needed when you go the DIY route.
I make gifts for most of the people in my life. In fact, I have 18 homemade Christmas gift ideas for everyone on your list!
The gifts I’m sharing below are specially chosen to be easy to make in bulk for a large number of people without breaking the bank or taking an entire day to craft!
You’re sure to find something that inspires you — let’s get started!
Soap Gifts
Homemade Melt and Pour Soap Recipe
Melt and pour soap is so easy to make, but it still allows you to customize it and get creative! This recipe uses a nourishing shea butter soap base to which you can add dried lavender, chamomile, or other add-ins to make it beautiful and textured.
Learn how to make homemade melt and pour soap here.
Homemade Oatmeal Soap
This oatmeal melt and pour soap is a treat to use — it will certainly be appreciated by whoever receives this easy homemade gift! It’s perfect for that dry winter skin, with nourishing oatmeal, honey, and lavender.
Make homemade oatmeal soap with this easy tutorial.
Homemade Goat Milk Soap
Goat milk soap is so luxurious and nourishing to the skin. It can also be incredibly easy to make. You don’t need fresh goat milk, just a goat milk soap base! This melt and pour recipe is so quick and easy, but the results are a really special handcrafted gift.
Learn how to make goat milk soap here.
Holiday Spice Soap Bar
Give your homemade Christmas gifts a festive pop with these holiday spice soap bars! These bars can be colored with any hue you like, and they are scented with a Christmassy, spicy scent from all-natural essential oils. Don’t forget the fun label to complete the gift!
Learn how to make holiday spice soap bars here.
Sugar Scrub Gifts
Homemade Sugar Scrub
Everyone can benefit from a homemade sugar scrub, and your gift recipients will feel quite pampered as they use it! You can make homemade sugar scrub in less than 10 minutes with ingredients you probably already have on hand. This is the perfect easy and cheap homemade gift if you need to make for a lot of people!
Learn how to make homemade sugar scrub here!
Whipped Lavender Sugar Scrub
If you want to take your homemade sugar scrub up a notch, try this whipped lavender scrub. It has a fluffy texture and a soothing, calming scent. Everyone will enjoy the silky smooth skin that comes from using a sugar scrub!
Find the recipe for whipped lavender sugar scrub here!
5 Christmas Sugar Scrubs
If you’re making homemade gifts for Christmas, you’ll love these holiday sugar scrub recipes. They smell like Christmas, look delightfully festive, and you can print off free labels to make the gift really shine!
Learn how to make 5 Christmas sugar scrubs here!
Candle Gifts
Easy Honey Vanilla Candle Recipe
This honey vanilla beeswax candle is the perfect homemade gift for teachers or coworkers. It’s beautiful, cozy, and it smells amazing! You can even customize the scent and try different containers to make a truly one-of-a-kind gift.
Find the tutorial for easy honey vanilla candles here!
Easiest Beeswax Candle Recipe
These homemade beeswax candles are easy to make in bulk, and they’re absolutely gorgeous burning on a chilly winter night! This recipe is unscented, making it suitable for a wide variety of recipients, but you can also add a scent if that’s more your style.
Find the tutorial for homemade beeswax candles here.
DIY Mason Jar Candles
Floral mason jar candles are one of my favorite things to gift around the holidays! They’re a simple DIY, yet they are so lovely and enjoyable to use. These homemade candles are made with natural soy wax and essential oils for a gentle fragrance.
Learn how to make DIY mason jar candles here.
Bath & Body Gifts
DIY Peppermint Bath Salts
Give your recipients the gift of a cooling, relaxing bath! Homemade peppermint bath salts come together in minutes with just 4 simple ingredients. They look and smell like a candy cane, making them such a fun Christmas gift for teachers, neighbors, or coworkers.
Learn how to make peppermint bath salts here.
Fizzing Bath Salts
Fizzing bath salts are a lot like a bath bomb, but much quicker to make! That’s why I like keeping this recipe on hand for bulk DIY gifts. The process is as simple as combining and stirring the ingredients, yet the bath salts are such a treat to add to a steaming bath.
Get the recipe for fizzing bath salts here.
Easy Tallow Lip Balm
Lip balm is one of my favorite homemade gifts for Christmas and the holiday season, because everyone needs a little TLC for their dry lips this time of year! This tallow lip balm is extremely nourishing, moisturizing, and soothing. It will certainly be a well-appreciated gift!
Learn how to make tallow lip balm here.
FAQs
The best homemade gifts for teachers are anything that is useful, consumable (so it doesn’t create clutter), and inedible (teachers typically prefer no homemade food items). I like to choose something that allows them a little pampering at home so they can relax and treat themselves! Candles, body scrubs, soap, or bath salts are excellent choices that are widely enjoyed by most people.
Choosing the right container can really elevate your homemade gift. Beautiful, elegant, or sleek jars make a homemade gift look well-thought-out and professional. Adding a great label is also a nice way to make your homemade gifts lovely!
Oftentimes, just the fact that you made the gift and thought of the recipient is personal enough! If you want to add a special touch, you can include a homemade and handwritten card or tag so they know just how much you thought of them.
Absolutely! You can make these homemade gifts for the beginning of the school year, end of the school year, Christmas, Valentine’s Day — you name it! Just tweak the packaging and label to accommodate the season.
Now you are ready to make lovely, inexpensive, and easy homemade gifts for this holiday season! Whether you’re making them for teachers, coworkers, neighbors, or friends, your handcrafted gifts will certainly be a hit.
If you want to add labels to your homemade gifts, I have a lot of free printable label options in my member resource library! This is a great way to make your gifts more beautiful and tell the recipients what it is they are receiving.
Be sure to bookmark or pin this page so you can find it again for more homemade gift ideas! And please let me know in the comments which one you’re going to make; I love to hear from you!
