On your birthday you always want to give a special gift. It can be difficult to give something original to your brother, especially when there are serious competitors nearby: friends and parents, whose gift may cost much more than yours. How to stand out from the rest? The best birthday gift for your brother is one made by yourself!
Soft toy, hand-sewn
Depending on your abilities. Bears, bunnies, cats, and dogs, knitted from bulky plush yarn, are very popular now. Having knitting skills and dexterity, you can quickly knit a large animal.
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But the material - bulky yarn and padding polyester for stuffing - are expensive. A small funny toy can be sewn from a regular sock in bright colors.
9-14 years
If your brother is a teenager, self-affirmation and peer approval are important to him. Prepare a surprise for him that he can show to his friends and post a photo on Instagram.
Cut and tailoring
We always start by measuring and cutting out two rectangles of fabric, between which we need to lay fleece and secure with pins. Then you should stitch around the perimeter or carefully and slowly stitch by hand (if you don’t have a machine). We wrap the resulting blank around the cup and select the best place for sewing Velcro (marking it with a pin).
Separately, you need to prepare a photo frame by cutting out a square from the same fabric (not forgetting also about fleece), approximately 8x8 in size. We place the fabric squares on top of each other, and after measuring 1.5 cm on all sides, we draw a smaller square: 5x5 centimeters, and carefully cut it out, thus obtaining a frame. The perimeter of the square must be stitched to connect the fleece to the corduroy. The next step is to sew the frame to the sleeve blank, attaching it to the middle, then insert a photo (or a specific thematic picture) into it. It turned out to be a sincere gift for my brother on his birthday. Whether he turns 27, 30, 35 or 50 doesn’t matter; he’ll like this surprise anyway.
T-shirt
Hand-painted T-shirt. To do this, you will need a plain new T-shirt and special fabric paints. Even if you don’t know how to draw at all, it doesn’t matter.
Make an inscription, logo, any ornament. Practice on a scrap piece of paper, and then start creating.
A piece of warmth
A cup sleeve with a photo of you together can be a good present that will always remind your brother of you. The surprise will look complete if you present it immediately with a cup. And it’s convenient to make a sleeve under it, so as not to make a mistake with the size. Like a scarf, it can be knitted, but such products tend to stretch, which can significantly shorten the life of the gift. Although if you really want a knitted sleeve, you can get out of the situation by sewing in a fabric lining. And the key here is a correctly selected joint photograph that will remind you of the warm moments of life.
For those who are comfortable with knitting, let’s look at how to make a “cup” sleeve from fabric? For this, we actually need it. A finished product made from bright ribbed corduroy will look good, and you will also need a piece of fleece to give it a cozy feel. In addition, you need to arm yourself with scissors, Velcro, a pen and a square piece of plastic cut from a freezer bag, for example.
Case
Case for phone, tablet, laptop, case for headphones or glasses. It can be quickly made from leather, felt, denim. Keep the seams rough and the edges raw. This style with elements of light improvisation will only emphasize brutality.
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Gift from brother
A birthday gift for your older brother is easy to create if you know Photoshop or video editors. Then you can edit a funny video or make a photo joke. After all, you know your brother’s tastes, his idols, and hobbies very well.
Make a photo album or folding double-sided screen with scenes from your childhood or design a series of comics.
For your younger brother you can make a car, an airplane or a boat. Pour into a box organizer, the kind you use to store various “men’s” little things, small candies, chewing gummies, and nuts. Wrap it in beautiful paper. It will be a surprise gift.
Pillow with photo
In the same way, you can transfer a printed photo of your brother, family, his hobby or a funny childhood moment onto a piece of white fabric. For the pillow itself, it is best to choose a colored, bright fabric that will look good in the interior of the birthday boy’s apartment. It will be most convenient to sew a square-shaped pillow - then the photograph will fit into it without any problems. The photo should be carefully sewn to the fabric before you completely sew the pillowcase.
You will also greatly simplify your task if you order a photo print on fabric in a special shop.
Gift from sister
A birthday present for your brother from your sister will once again prove how smart and a craftswoman the birthday boy’s sister is.
If you know how to sew, sew a bag for something practical - for cycling, sports, walks in the forest.
If you knit, knit a hat, scarf, mittens.
If you don’t know how to do anything, but are a good cook, bake a cake, build a mega-salad or a huge set of rolls and sushi.
Necessary materials
Handmade gifts are created from available materials. This has a big advantage over traditional presentations.
Take a look through your closet or attic and you will find many interesting things that may come in handy.
Take a look through your closet or attic and you will find many interesting things that may come in handy
If you have been practicing needlework for a long time, then get a special container where you can put useful things, for example, old beads, leftover lace, colored scraps, etc.
In the future, you can use them to make a soft toy, napkin or bright postcard.
Gift from baby
A homemade gift for your brother from a little brother or sister will always turn out to be original.
A child, no matter what he does, never lies.
Any craft using a technique accessible to a child, be it a drawing, appliqué, painting or plasticine figurine, will be made from the heart and with love.
Volumetric legs
From another sheet of cardboard, cut out several small strips of paper and fold them into a “P” shape. Glue these “legs” to several balls. This will give the composition more volume. We would like to note that it is better to give volume to smaller balls so that they do not cover the balls behind.
Birthday card
A homemade postcard will be an original addition to a standard gift or will replace it if you insert a “paper with watermarks” into it.
You will need beautiful thick paper, decorative elements for decoration, colored pens or markers. Such a set will surely be found in every home.
All that remains is to write warm words of congratulations to your loved one and decorate the work to your liking. And rest assured, no one else will give such a gift.
What to give to your loved one?
Poster with sweets
The easiest way to please your loved one is to give him a poster with heartfelt or cheerful wishes, decorated with sweets “with meaning.” The inscriptions can be made by hand or made from cut out printed words.
One design option could be like this:
- I wish you endless (Inspiration chocolate) and prosperity (candies in the form of gold coins);
- let (curd cheese “Miracle”) accompany your every day;
- be as vigorous and strong as (a bag of coffee);
- you and I are inseparable, like (Twix chocolate bar);
- you are my most (small pack of “Favorite” juice) person on earth;
- Now we know exactly what (chewing gum “Love is”) is our present and future.
Rubik's Cube from joint photos
So that your loved one always remembers the happy days spent together, you can make a Rubik's cube for him from photographs. To do this, you will need a Rubik's cube with colored stickers that can be removed from each piece, glue, colorless varnish, scissors, favorite photographs and a lot of patience.
Performance:
- The edges of the Rubik's cube are freed from colored stickers;
- prepare photographs that are suitable in size;
- on the reverse side, draw each photo into 9 identical squares, corresponding in size to the squares of a Rubik’s cube;
- cut all photographs without mixing them;
- carefully glue each part of the photo onto the corresponding square of the cube and let it dry;
- after drying, disassemble the cube into parts;
- cover each photo with colorless varnish and allow to dry;
- collect parts.
Coffee heart
A coffee heart is a fragrant gift that expresses the love of the giver. It is performed in the same way as creating a topiary, using a heart-shaped base instead of a ball, pasting it with coffee beans. Another option for a coffee heart is a car pendant.
The basis for such a heart is made from corrugated cardboard covered with brown velvet or foil, or from a floral sponge cut in the shape of a heart and pasted over with sand as a background. A hook with an eye or a wire must be inserted into the recess of the heart to form a pendant.
Roasted coffee beans are attached tightly to each other onto the finished base using a glue gun, so that there are no empty areas left. Decorate the heart with a gold ribbon, star anise or cinnamon stick.
Balloons with wishes
An original birthday surprise will be a bouquet of balloons with wishes. Pleasant compliments and parting words are written on small pieces of paper and rolled up. Each one is placed in a balloon, which is inflated with helium. Tie each ball tightly with thread, tie ribbons and collect the bouquet.
You can attach a card with a gift certificate or a cheerful wish to the ribbons.
Universal gifts for brother
Any assorted box can be a universal gift for your brother. Take a loose box, such as a shoe box. Cover it with wrapping or craft paper.
Put inside something that your brother loves very much:
Assorted sweets - candies, chocolates, dragees, cookies, etc.
The set can be meat-sausage or fish-beer. But then you need to line the inside of the box with film so that greasy stains do not come out and spoil the appearance of the gift.
Make a mix of hosiery, handkerchiefs and towels that will never be out of place.
The main thing is not to forget to present sincere love and kind words along with the gift. After all, it doesn’t matter at all how much money you spent on a gift, what matters is how much soul was invested in it.
Sweet steering wheel step by step instructions
This is another creative variation of a sweet gift for a boy with a base in the form of thick cardboard, which can be found in any home as various boxes for something. You will also need tools and materials for the craft: stationery and nail scissors, a model knife (for cutting out the inner parts of the steering wheel), a long ruler, a pencil, a glue gun, thick corrugated paper, a printout of the car logo, satin ribbon, double-sided tape and, in fact, candy.
Instructions for creating a gift for your brother on your birthday consist of several steps:
- The first step is to draw a circle on cardboard and cut it out. If using a compass you cannot draw a steering wheel of the required size, you can use a large plate for this purpose, simply tracing the outer circle along its contours.
- Next, you need to lay out the candies according to the sketch and select a shape to outline a small circle: for example, use a hot stand. Now draw a small circle in the center. In the above example, the larger one turned out to be 35 centimeters in diameter, the small one - 17 cm.
- At the next stage, we mark the jumpers with candies (like a real steering wheel) and outline them on both sides with straight lines. Then, using a modeling knife, you need to cut out the elements in the center.
- In this step, you should glue the corrugated paper using a glue gun, cut it (with nail scissors) and fold the edges of the paper inside the steering wheel. The other side needs to be glued and holes cut out.
- The next step is to attach the satin ribbon, the edge of which is covered with glue.
- Next, you need to stick tape on the sweets and secure them to the steering wheel, and glue the printed car logo in the center.
- The final stage is wrapping the steering wheel in film and tying it with a ribbon.
Photos of birthday gifts for brother
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