I love making and giving homemade gifts, but sometimes it can be tricky to come up with handmade gift ideas that kids will love. I've collected 24 of my favorite DIY gift ideas for kids. I know my kids would love each and every one. What will you be making for the kids in your life this year? 1. Play Horse Stable - MerMag  2. Puppet Theater - Cutesy Crafts 3. Magnetic Dress Up Doll - 733 Blog  4. Baby Doll Diaper Bag - Create and Play Momma 5. Hopscotch Mat - A Girl and A Glue Gun  6. Games in a Jar - Lost Button Studio 7. Homemade Bubble Solution and Blowers - Hello Bee 8. Wooden Peg Super Hero Set - Cook & Craft Me Crazy 9. Toy Leather Drum - Say Yes to Hoboken  10. DIY Lava Lamps - Lil' Luna 11. Mustache Disguise Kit - The Princess and Her Cowboys  12. Cardboard Continue Reading
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White Elephant Gift Exchange Free Printable Invitation
Hello, dear Persia Lou readers! My name is Amy and I blog about food (with occasional food videos), travel, and my weekly free printables at Club Narwhal. I'm so excited to participate in Persia Lou's Handmade Holiday extravaganza. For me, the holiday season is not complete without an ugly sweater party. Combine that with a hilarious white elephant gift exchange and you are really speaking my language. I wanted to share this modern White Elephant Gift Exchange invitation with you today. Feel free to download it for your next holiday party (the Club Narwhal watermark seen above will not show up on your digital download)! Keep reading for a quick tutorial that shows you how to customize the invitation's details using Picmonkey, a free and totally awesome photo editing website. It's Continue Reading
Hand-Stamped Wrapping Paper
Hello there, my name is Alicia and I blog over at Arty and Crafty Little Things. I love everything handmade, and I got very excited when Alexis invited me to be part of the Handmade Holiday series. Today I’ll show you how to make your own wrapping paper this Christmas. This is an easy project for everybody to make, we all like presents but I think the wrapping is very important and if you make your own it will be unique! I’ll show you two techniques: one using acrylic paint and the other carving your own stamps. Parcel wrapping brown paper. Pencil. Scissors PVA glue. Acrylic paint Biscuit cutters (optional) Cardboard (from an old box) This is very easy to make and a lot of fun if you want to get your kids involved too. Plus it’s very cheap and you probably Continue Reading
Cookie Hostess Gift
Hi everyone! I'm Ali and write about vintage goodies, DIY, and food over at Pies & Puggles. I am so excited to have been asked to share a handmade holiday idea here at Persia Lou and I hope you all enjoy my holiday cookie packaging! There are a lot of ways to overindulge during the holidays: too much shopping, too much booze, too much family time. If youÃre a Pies & Puggles reader, it shouldnÃt surprise you that my particular favorite is too much baking. Not only does a marathon cookie baking session early in the season get me in the holiday mood, it also provides for enough hostess gifts, potluck offerings and drop-in guest snacking enjoyment to last through the New Year. If you're interested in organizing a cookie baking marathon of your own, you can check out this Continue Reading
Handmade Gift Idea: Rhinestone Crusted Framed Printable
A few weeks ago I came across this amazing printable from Clones N Clowns and Bonjour Darling. I just loved it. Really, really loved it. Like kept thinking about it and smiling throughout the day kind of thing. I mean - Bruce Willis with a hot glue gun! How cool is that? Almost immediately I decided I wanted to share it with my sister (she's kind of a craft MacGyver), so I started to think about ways to turn the printable into a cool gift. Time to make an awesome frame! Right away, Bruce told me I needed to use a hot glue gun. And that meant rhinestones. A lot of rhinestones. I had a vision of a rhinestone crust growing out of the frame. Like rhinestone barnacles. Is that weird? Here's how it went down: Basically, I pulled out a bunch of red and pink rhinestones in Continue Reading
DIY Christmas Card Holder
Psst... Alexis here. I just had to sneak in to say I am so excited for our first guest post of the Handmade Holiday series! And guys, it's a good one! Without further ado, take it away, Corey! Well hello there! I'm Corey and I blog over at TinySidekick and I'm so excited to be a part of Persia Lou's Handmade Holiday series! So today I'm going to show you how to make this simple Christmas Card Holder. Don't you just love getting Christmas cards in the mail? It is so much fun to see our friends and family's photos and last year I had a hard time enjoying them because I didn't have a place to display them all. That won't be a problem this year with this simple project. The style of my home is traditional mixed with modern and the clean lines and simplicity of this holiday decoration are Continue Reading
How to Quickly Update Your Christmas Tree on the Cheap
Do you guys get Christmas tree ADD? Pretty much every year I feel the need to change things up a bit... or change things up a lot. Which, of course, can get pretty pricey. I was going through my box of ornaments from previous years to see what could be incorporated into this year's color scheme. And, while there were some ornaments that will work, there were SO many that just won't. Or, at least, I thought they wouldn't, until I gave them a makeover. And just like Cher, you know I love a makeover. It gives me a sense of control in a world full of chaos. ;) Several years ago I had an all blue and silver tree, and that was fun, but these blue ornaments just aren't working with the white and gold thing I've got going on this year. So I decided to give them a couple coats of Continue Reading
DIY Modern Advent Calendar
Do you have favorite Christmas things or decorations from your childhood? My favorite is hands-down an advent calendar that my mother made. It was a red and green plaid wall hanging with a big, green, felt Christmas tree and rows of pockets along the bottom. Each pocket contained a different felt ornament, and every day leading up to Christmas, my siblings and I would take turns adding one of the ornaments to the tree. On Christmas Eve, we would pull out the last ornament - a little manger holding the baby Jesus - and add it to our fully decorated tree. When I decided to make a new advent calendar for our family, I knew I wanted to do a modern version of the tree advent I had loved as a child. For my version of the tree advent, I decided to use wood instead of felt. I planning on Continue Reading