9 Amazing Birthday Gifts for Boyfriend, All Handmade! Show Him How Much He Means to You with Homemade Gifts (2020)

DIY Heart Shaped Tea Bags

• Thread (preferred colour)
• Fillable tea bags
• Loose flavoured tea
• Sewing machine
• Baker’s twine or yarn
• Coloured felt
• Pencil
• Teaspoon
• Scissors

• Draw suitably sized heart shape on the tea bags with a pencil. Place two such heart drawings, coinciding.
• Sew inside the heart boundary, but mindfully leave a gap near the tapering end of the heart.
• Now, cut out the heart by following the outer (pencil) curves.
• When done, fill-in the tea bag with loose tea through the gap and then sew the gap to secure the tea bag completely.
• Use the baker’s twine or a long piece of yarn to make the dipping thread of your tea bags.

The Story of Us

• A sturdy book with colourful or themed pages
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Glue
• Border tapes
• Sketch pens
• Colours (crayons, water colours, or whatever you prefer)
• Ribbon

• Decide a theme about how you wish your book to turn out like.
• Draw all the different boxes, where you plan to fix your photographs, or write paragraphs.
• When done, glue the photos and other “memories” that you want to showcase.
• Now, complete the writing parts describing the speciality of the dates or things that made you fall for him in that meeting.
• Finally, start decorating with borders, outlines and designs based on your desirable theme.
• Wrap it up making a bow from a ribbon and it is all ready to wow him up!

Stone Craft

• Coloured stones of your choice
• Acrylic colours
• Fine tip brushes
• A few 3D cone outliners
• Transparent nail paint

• Take a stone that you like and wash it off thoroughly, to remove any dust or mud siting on its surface.
• Choose the colours from your acrylic paints and a phrase (for e.g. “you rock my world” etc.) to write on it.
• Carefully write the phrase you love on the stone’s surface and let it dry.
• You can make hearts or any other designs around it with 3D cone outliners.
• Secure the painted areas and add a gloss to the whole stone with the transparent nail paint and voila! The stone is ready to make him smile!

Seven Days of Love

• A Monday to Sunday spill box with box size suitable for your small gifts
• Small handwritten notes made specifically for each day
• Tiny add-on gifts to give him surprises for the whole week

• Place all the notes in their pre-decided slots.
• Put individual gifts for each day, and leave a day or two as “dodge ball” or in simple words without any exclusive gift but with candies and gums.
• Decorate the box according to your preferences and get ready to see him all in excitement, for the whole week!

DIY Carved Candle

• Candle (scented or plain)
• Design for initials (printed on a small piece of paper)
• Gold leaf/ ball point pen
• Tape
• Linoleum cuter

• Tape your design paper on the candle to fix it completely. It shouldn’t be able to move while you draw over it. Trace the design carefully and firmly, using a ball point pen.
• Remove the paper and then trace again with the linoleum cutter. The carving should be nice in depth as well as width to be visible.
• Fill the carving with the gold leaf pen to fill it beautifully and then, let it dry. Place it in a cutesy little box and gift it to your beloved.

Date Night Felt Arrows

• Felt sheets
• Quarter inch dowel rods
• Scissors
• Fevicol
• Mailing tube
• Wrapping paper (for the tube, optional)
• Tiny hanging labels or tags
• Pen

• Cut out small triangles of equal size to make the arrow heads. Place one on the surface, apply fevicol on one of them and carefully place the dowel rod on it.
• Cover the first triangle and the rod with another triangle such that all the edges coincide. Press gently and repeat the procedure to make more arrow heads.
• For the tails, repeat a similar process with rectangular pieces of felt. Once all are nicely glued, cut inwards V shapes at the bottom of the arrow tails.
• Then, along the edges of the rectangular arrow tails, cut sections which appear to be fringes around the tail.
• Once done, write down your date ideas on the labels or tags and then wrap them up individually on each of the arrows using a twine.
• Place all these arrows in the mailer tube, which you can further decorate using a beautiful wrapping paper.

DIY Heart Piñatas

• Mini cardboard heart shaped boxes
• Awl
• String or twine
• Candies/chocolates
• Fevicol
• Crepe paper folds
• Red felt
• Printed letters (the short message you’ll be pasting on the outside)
• Scissors

• Use the awl and poke a hole in the top region of your box. Through this hole, pull down both the ends of a suitably lengthy twine, and make a knot inside the box itself. A loop will be formed.
• Cut about three-quarter inch off, from your crepe paper folds. About 10 feet will be needed per heart.
• Whilst being folded, fringe down each strip carefully.
• Put the goodies and candies inside the piñata and secure with lid. Start running a line of fevicol on one face of the box and pasting the fringed strip tracing over the glue line. Repeat the steps to cover the whole piñata from bottom to top, strip by strip.
• Repeat the above steps and cover the whole piñata and let it dry. Cut out your message from the red felt in the form of letters and glue them over the heart. Be ready to tell him to use all his muscles to open his gift!

Printable Message Board

• A print with your message and preferred design
• An 8 x 10" frame
• A gift box
• Ribbons

• Create your own design and write down your message with the help of an editing online application. This is your canvas, write what you want to convey but make it crisp and short.
• Download and print this picture.
• Put it in the 8*10 frame carefully.
• Put this frame and some goodies like chocolates etc in a gift box and wrap it up with ribbon made bows, and voila! Your easy but gorgeous gift is ready to meet him.

Vanilla Cupcakes

• 2 Full cups of flour
• Half tsp salt
• Half cup softened butter
• 1 cup milk
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• ¾ cup of sugar

• Preheat your oven to 190C or 375F while lining muffin cups with butter papers.
• Cream sugar and butter till it becomes light and aerated. Beat in the eggs, adding one at a time.
• Mix flour, salt and baking powder separately and then, add this mixture to the batter. Pour in the milk and vanilla essence drops, and stir well.
• When mixed thoroughly, spread evenly in muffin cups and wait. Present these delightful cupcakes to your boyfriend and be assured of making him fall for you all over again!