Gifts Made By You Will Always Find a Special Place in the Receiver's Heart: 10 Handmade Gifts for Friendship Day to Melt Your Friends' Hearts (2019)

• Glass Jar: You can use any old glass jar, left unused at your home or you can also buy a stylish terrarium glass jar at amazon.in.


• Small stones & pebbles: You can use any tiny stone and pebbles available in your garden, but the purchased stones and pebbles will give your craft a professional look. So it is advised to buy some pebble & stones from a nearby nursery or place an order online at etsy.com.


• Activated Charcoal: A very tiny layer of activated charcoal will be required to keep the water fresh and fight off any bacterial growth in the terrarium. You can buy some activated charcoal stone or powder from the nearby nursery or online. Though on the online store you will only get it in bulk. If you don't get charcoal, leave it, it won't make much difference.


• Potting Soil: Potting soil will act as an important layer for your terrarium. Any type of soil can be used, although there are special mixes available if you’re planting cacti or succulents. You can buy some potting soil from ugaoo.com.


• Plants: It won't be a terrarium without the plants. Pick out a few of your favourite tiny sized plants to use in your terrarium from your own garden. Air plants, succulents and mini-cacti are all viable options. You can also buy some good plants from ugaoo.com.


• Final Decoration: You can finally decorate your terrarium with moss, miniatures or any other decorative piece as per your creativity.

How to make

• Start by setting a centimetre-thick layer of gravel that will act as a water reservoir and protect your mini garden from rot. Add a thin layer of charcoal as extra protection from stagnant water and top it with a cm thick layer of garden soil. The thickness of soil depends upon the type of plants you use in your terrarium. Finally, add moss, plants, shells, corals, insects or anything that you like. Here is your beautiful gift ready!

Material Required

• Cardboard
• Glue gun/Gluesticks/Fevicol
• Candy sticks/long wooden sticks
• Cardboard cutter/pen knife cutter
• Rubber bands

Making the Dispenser

• Step 1: Cut cardboard pieces of given shape and glue together to form a funnel and add wooden sticks at top two sides as shown in the video.
• Step 2: Cut pieces of dimensions as shown in the video and glue together as shown. Glue funnel at the top of the structure.
• Step 3: Create the dispenser tray with cardboard and wooden sticks, as shown in the video.
• Step 4: Attach the dispenser tray to the main structure with wooden sticks and cut off excess stick from the sides.
• Step 5: Cut the server pieces and glue at the bottom of the funnel and dispenser tray.
• Step 6: Add the gems container at the top.
• Step 7: Finish the structure by adding outer covers, gems stickers and your designs.

Material Required

• Sufficient quantity of candle gel wax to make the number of candles you desire. You can order gel was from flipkart.com at Rs. 230 only.
• Candle wicks, any candle wick or thick threads will do the task.
• Proper candle container for pouring the melted gel. You can use any clear drinking glass or small bowl for the purpose.
• A kitchen kettle or other non-stick heating method.
• Coloured sand and seashells for embedding in the gel wax. Here use your imagination for the decoration of your candle. Just keep in mind not to use flammable things for embedding inside the gel for decoration. You can also use the scents of your choice.

Making the Candle

• Step 1: Cut the gel wax into smaller pieces and place enough of those to fit inside your chosen container into a non-stick pot. A good kitchen kettle also works well for this task.
• Step 2: Start to melt the gel. Stir with a spoon made of metal, don't use Wooden spoons as it will cause unnecessary bubbles in the gel.
• Step 3: While your gel wax is melting, arrange the other items in your candle container glass. First set the wick in the container straight with the help of pencils etc. Then set a layer of coloured sand over it, you can place seashells or other decorative items also.
• Step 4: Once your gel-wax starts boiling, pour it into your candle container. Be careful to pour very slowly or it will leave unnecessary air bubbles inside your candle.

And it's done. Simple as that.

Material Required

• A scarf of your choice and colour. We have picked this pink stole for you, which is available at amazon.in at a price of Rs. 299.
• Plastic stencil of your choice. We have selected this reusable beautiful stencil from etsy.com at a price of Rs. 430.
• Acrylic colours
• Adhesive tape

How to print

• Step 1: At first wash the stole and after drying press it properly.
• Step 2: Fix the stencil at the required place of the stole using adhesive tapes.
• Step 3: Paint over the stencil, using a paintbrush and acrylic colour of your choice.
• Step 4: Let the colours dry. After drying remove the stencil.

And it's done. A beautiful gift for your beautiful friend.

Material Required

• Some good quality paper envelopes.
• Some good papers for writing.
• Few good pens.
• Lots of creative thinking.

Material Required

• Blank CD/DVD
• A Computer/Laptop to burn CD
• CD Jewel Case
• Lots of downloading, creating playlists and burning favourite songs.
• Printer to print the cover of the CD

Material Required

• For making an arm knit scarf the most important material you need is Bulky Wool Yarn. You can purchase this super bulky wool yarn from amazon.in at a price of Rs. 380 only.

Material Required

• Any good small size cardboard box. If you want to go fancy then you can use any old small jewellery box of your mom or you can buy one of these jewellery boxes from amazon.in at Rs. 499.
• Good quality printed scrapbook paper, which you can easily get from your local store.
• Glue
• Ribbon

How to Make

• Step 1: Get the inner length and width of your box.
• Step 2: Cut a long strip of scrapbook paper. The width of this strip should be the inner length of your box and length should be in multiple of the width of the box as per the numbers of photos to be pasted. Suppose the length of the jewel box is 4 inches and width is 2 inches and you want to paste 10 photos, then the strip should be 4 inches wide and 20 inches long.
• Step 3: Fold the scrapbook paper according to the width of the box, creasing it to get a precise line. At the next mark, fold and crease the scrapbook paper in the opposite direction. Continue the folds for remaining paper accordingly.
• Step 4: Position the folded scrapbook paper on a flat surface with the topmost fold facing you. Cut the printed images of your choice or some good friendship quotes, keeping it a little smaller than the folded area, then paste all on each scrapbook paper square and adhere with strong glue. Allow it to dry.
• Step 5: Fit your folded scrapbook paper in the box. If you’d like, hot-glue the back side of the bottom square to the inside bottom of the box, and let dry. Finally, use hot glue to adhere to a loop of ribbon to the top back edge of the top square and let dry.

That's it, you have done it.

Material Required

• White glue. You can easily get one in a nearby stationery store or order online from amazon.in at Rs. 100.
• A new penknife, similar to mone available at amazon.in at Rs. 143 or box cutter.
• Small size brush to apply glue solution.
• Pencil/pen
• Ruler or another rigid straight edge
• A thick unused book with a hardcover.

How to Make

• Step 1: Leave a few pages intact at the front side, mark the page from where you want to cut out.
• Step 2: Holding all the remaining pages together, brush the edges with the white glue - enough to soak in pretty well, but not too drippy.
• Step 3: Allow this to dry, but use a spacer so the first couple pages and the front cover don't get stuck.
• Step 4: Go to the first glued page. Draw out an inch border around the edge on all four sides.
• Step 5: Using your ruler and knife/box cutter cut out along the inside of the line. Try to make the cut as vertical as possible, or else try to tilt so the hole will narrow as you go down.
• Step 6: Continue cutting down through the layers. The longer you spend on it, the smoother and straighter the inside edges of your book will be.
• Step 7: When you get to the back of the book, and through the last page, stop. Clean the cutout area.
• Step 8: Next, brush the glue on the inside edges of the pages. You can also apply a second coat of glue on the outer edges. Let it dry completely under some weight.
• Step 9: Fill up the hollow space with whatever secret things you want to gift your friend and gift him.