DIY Graduation Gift Ideas

So, graduation season is coming up and with it, the unending search for graduation gifts to offer. Everybody knows someone who is graduating either from school or university. I, myself, have a brother and a cousin who are graduating from school and friends who are graduating from university too. I want to offer them something special and handmade, so I started brainstorming for DIY graduation gift ideas for both girls and boys. I got numerous ones but these are the ones I decided to craft:

1-      DIY Reese’s Graduation Chocolate

2-      DIY Graduation Champagne Bottle

3-      DIY “In case of emergency break glass” frame

 

1-      DIY Reese’s Graduation Chocolate:

 

Material needed:

-          Reese’s mini peanut butter cups

-          Scissors

-          Glue

-          Ruler

-          White crayon

-          Raffia

-          Black cardboard

-          Tape

 

1-      Draw on the black cardboard 5x5 cm squares and cut them. Those will stand for the graduation hats.

2-      Leave a 1 cm margin from each side of the square and draw an inner square with white crayon

3-      Cut two raffia bands for each hat, with one shorter than the other.

4-      Glue them in the middle of the hat

5-      Cut small tape pieces and roll them over to connect both sides, sticky side up.

6-      Place the tape on top of the peanut butter cup and then place the graduation hat on top of the tape

Easy and fast!

 

2-      DIY Graduation Champagne Bottle

 

Material needed:

-          Craft foam

-          Glue

-          Scissors

-          Needle

-          Thread

-          Piece of white paper

-          Graduation Hat (from the previous DIY)

-          Champagne bottle

-          Chalk

 

1-      Get all the needed material

2-      Take the champagne bottle, fold the foam craft in two, and wrap it around the bottle just to see if the length is good. If not, mark with a needle the needed length

3-      Draw a line in accordance with the previously made mark and cut to remove the unneeded part of the foam.

4-      Once that it done, cut a triangle on the upper part of the foam (on the side that was folded in half). This triangle will serve as the neck of the graduation gown.

5-      With a chalk, draw the pattern of a graduation gown on the foam and then cut along the lines.

6-      Using a needle and a thread, stitch the sides and the arms of the gown

7-      In a white paper, cut a small band and roll it to make a small diploma then tie a piece of foam around it to hold the diploma together.

8-      Stitch the foam of the diploma onto the joint arms of the graduation gown

 

Use one of the graduation hats made in the previous DIY to dress the collar of the bottle.

 

Done! You now have a champagne bottle dressed in a graduation gown.

 

3-      DIY “In case of emergency break glass” frame

 

Material needed:

-          20x30 cm frame

-          Money bills

-          “IN CASE OF SHOPPING EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS” printed on a transparent paper

 

 Mabrouk to all graduates <3

Xoxo,

T