Holiday Gift Baskets--Building Your Own Holiday Gift Baskets
Building your own holiday gift baskets gives you more options than purchasing a pre-made basket
. To begin, think about the recipient of the gift, and answer the following questions:What are his or her preferences?
What does he or she like to do?
Does he or she prefer to be outdoors or inside?
Prefer to play sports games or watch sports games?
Sing? Read? Write? Draw? Paint?
The answers to these questions should give you some ideas what to put in the basket. Depending on the size of the basket you select, you should have ten to twenty person appropriate items. Suppose you need a gift for a pre-teen girl. After considering the questions above, you determine she likes make up, clothes, Disney characters, movies, purses, volleyball, and Wii.
For this basket, you might select an assortment of fingernail polish, a sample of polish remover, an eye shadow collection (be sure this is ok with her parents), a t-shirt with her favorite Disney character on it, the most current Disney DVD, a small purse, a volleyball bracelet, and the Volleyball for Wii game. When you begin to assemble the gift, you will need a filler for the bottom of the basket. In this instance, a yard of pink or purple tulle would work well. With tulle in the bottom of the basket, arrange the gift items with the most important in the center. A few artificial flowers snipped off the stem can be artfully placed for more visual excitement.
Other fillers for the bottom of baskets include artificial Easter grass, holiday tinsel garland, or a different appropriate fabric.
When the basket is ready, you need to wrap it in plastic. Use Reynold's plastic wrap in an appropriate color. Again, for this, pink or purple would work well. On a large flat surface, place two strips in a cross pattern on the table. Place at least two more strips in another cross pattern, with these strips at an angle where they fit between the points of the first. Basically, you are making an eight pointed star shape. Set the basket in the center where all the plastic strips cross each other. One at a time, gather up the strips to one point above the basket. Use curling ribbon to tie the strips together, then smooth the sides to close any gaps.
Gift baskets go over extremely well in almost every situation. Whether you need a holiday gift for a family member, a co-worker, a boss, an employee, or a customer, a holiday gift basket is appropriate.
Holiday Gift Baskets--Building Your Own Holiday Gift Baskets
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