32 original DIY handmade details for your boyfriend or girlfriend – Methods to Flirt

When special dates approach for the couple, be they birthdays, anniversaries or festivities like Christmas or Valentine’s Day, more than one girl begins to tremble because she doesn’t know what to give her partner.

For those moments when you have to surprise your boyfriend, you can choose to make a craft, which are original gifts and are often more appreciated than purchased gifts because of the effort they require.

Why is a craft better as a gift?

The originality, creativity and effort that you must put into a gift that you make manually is that crafts or DIYs are as attractive and special as gifts.

And although an object bought in a store can be very visually striking, you may be surprised to know that many times they are not enough of a pair.

It is possible that a purchased gift does not satisfy him because it was not what he expected, because he simply thinks that he could buy it himself or because he feels some guilt for having made you invest more money than necessary to look good to him.

That doesn’t happen with gifts you make yourself! Aside from saving money, you can give him something special enough to surprise him, enjoy it, and appreciate your care.

Get ready to discover 32 creative gift ideas to entertain him:

1.- Birthday card

Don’t buy it, make it yourself! Look among your things for colored cardboard, foam, glue, markers and create a letter in which you express your feelings.

2. Explosive box

This is a very easy craft to make, but at the same time impressive enough to keep anyone entertained by watching and reading each of the various layers that make it up.

Use photographs of the two of you and decorate them with messages of love, or with your congratulations and good wishes (depending on the holiday) and place some small sweets in the box. You will surely be fascinated!

3. Knitted hat

If you are good at knitting, you can watch some tutorials on the Internet where they tell you the material to use, the pattern and stitches necessary to make a beautiful hat. These are accessories that go with everything!

4. Make him a scarf

Whether woven or cloth, a good scarf will complement your outfit on rainy and cold days and will give a very casual touch to the clothes you wear.

5. Embroider his scarves

Every elegant man should wear a scarf! That is a habit that has been lost, but that you can help him rescue. Personalize handkerchiefs for your boyfriend by embroidering the initials of his name with gold threads. You certainly won’t want to stop using them.

6. Bookmark

Do you like reading? Then you must have a book that you recently started enjoying. Make a nice bookmark and personalize it!

7. I said

With beach shells, glass or embossed metal, you can make a beautiful and special pendant with their initials.

Then hang it on a little leather or woven ribbon that he can hold around his neck and always carry as a souvenir.

8. Book jacket

One way to preserve your favorite reads is to sew a cover or jacket to your books to preserve the cover.

You will like it! Plus this is a practical gift that you will enjoy much more if it fits one of your older books.

9. Keychains

With small pieces of wood, an electric soldering iron and a metal ring, you can make a nice keychain so you don’t lose your things again.

10. Message Jar

Get a glass jar, with its respective lid, and cut into strips how many papers you want to dedicate to it as messages.

Decorate the jar and enter all your love messages in it. This way you will have the opportunity to read them one at a time, or all at once, at your leisure.

11. Cake

Who could turn down a birthday or anniversary cake? There are cakes that are very simple to make, such as cold cakes, for which you will need sweet cookies or stencils instead of wheat flour and a refrigerator instead of an oven.

Find a recipe that is feasible and economical. And watch how he licks his fingers!

12. Hot Cup Protector

We’ve all burned our hands while grabbing our hot cup of coffee. Although it may seem like a silly gift, it is as common as it is useful.

If you knit him a protector that fits with a magic closure or clasp to the handle of his favorite mug, you will not only protect his hands but you will help protect his mug from unexpected falls that could destroy it.

13. Menu with sweets

Get a piece of cardboard, write a message of love on it in a different way. Use candy whose wrappers contain key words to form your dedication.

For example, you can start with: “I love you, my sweetheart!”, only you replace the word “sweetheart” with one of these delicious chocolate sweets. And so on until you complete your entire letter.

This way he will read, eat and enjoy your gift!

14. Photo frame

Print the most special photo you have of him and build an eye-catching frame with paper mache, wooden pallets, and colored stones. You could even decorate it with newspaper or magazine paper. These photo frames are beautiful and very ornamental!

15. Origami

Origami is oriental art! Those who know how to play with this skill manage to create incredible animals and objects, from ships, dogs, to small envelopes that become other types of objects.

How about writing a powerful message or a complete letter on the paper and then folding it until you get the origami of your choice? Give it to him and watch how he desperately tries to decipher your writing. You will most likely have to take it apart, but it will still be worth the detail.

16. Tea bags

After a day of work, make him relax by drinking a delicious tea. These are prepared from aromatic plants with medicinal properties, which when in contact with boiling water release unique aromas and colors.

Go to the market and get dried chamomile, hibiscus, cayenne, or cinnamon powder flowers. Using a clean piece of fabric, sew rectangular or heart-shaped bags, pour the flowers you have bought inside, sew them well and tie a ribbon or cord to them (just like the ones you buy in supermarkets come with).

A romantic and healthy detail!

17. Messages in a bottle

You remember those movies about castaways and pirates where they found a bottle in the sand and it contained a scroll inside. Usually the message read a treasure map or the words of help from a desperate man, who was on a lonely island waiting to be rescued.

Well, you can choose to write a love letter on an aged sheet of paper with shoe polish and after letting it dry so that the smell disappears, you put it in a pretty bottle and give it to them as a gift.

You’ll be excited when you get the scroll out and read it!

18. Sachetero

So that your room always has a pleasant aroma, prepare a sachetero for it! You will only need a paper or plastic bag, a ribbon and handfuls of dried eucalyptus leaves, chamomile flowers, cloves, cinnamon sticks and mint.

This gift is special, because the aromas help change a person’s mood for better or worse. So if you are upset or tired from your work day, once you get home or room and notice that an environment that smells fresh, you will instantly feel much better.

19. Chocolate bars

Contribute their passion for sweets with a chocolate bar made by you. Buy cup chocolate, melt it, pour it into a mold with a special shape and then put it in the refrigerator until it hardens.

You can even add oat flakes, walnuts or sesame seeds to the preparation, this way he will eat something sweet and healthy.

20. Glazed donuts

Make small donuts and glaze them with their favorite flavor, they will love you for this gift!

21. Book of things you love about him

If you love him, you must have thousands of reasons for it, whether it be his behavior, tone of voice, kindness, character, unique sense of humor, humility, intelligence, among others.

Cut out small sheets of paper and write on each one the things you appreciate about him, and then put them all together in a small pocket book. You can use stickers, glitter, and other materials to make it prettier.

This gift can reconnect you emotionally, maybe even get him motivated to give you one in return.

22. Cushions

May your rest be even more pleasant when you lie down with a beautiful cushion made with all the love of your girlfriend.

It doesn’t have to be too big, but make sure the padding is enough so that when you lie down your head won’t sink.

23. Lollipops

With a few tablespoons of sugar melted in a double boiler and vanilla, strawberry or mint essence, plastic sticks and chocolate chips or colored sugar, you can make delicious and colorful sweet lollipops or lollipops.

24. Phone case

With cardboard or composite wood you can also make a practical case to protect your cell phone from bumps and falls.

25. Photo Tree

Who said albums have to be boring? This is a fabulous idea to remember pleasant moments and display them for everyone to see.

Using wire and a wooden base to fix it, you can recreate a very particular tree from which your photographs hang, instead of green leaves.

You will require some help to create this gift, but the result is lovely.

26. Decorated T-shirt

Buy a solid-color t-shirt, preferably white or a light shade. You could also take for this job what was his favorite t-shirt but that he no longer wears because it has become worn out.

Get some rubber bands, a deep pot, and fabric paint.

Bring the water to a boil, add the sachet of fabric pigment, make small twisted knuckles in the places on the flannel that you want to get a new color, and secure them with the rubber bands. Then remove the water from the heat and insert the item of clothing, wait a couple of hours, undo the knots, wash with cold water and dry in the shade.

Finally, iron the shirt well, you will notice the beautiful figures that were made on it!

27. Decorated mug

Porcelain can also be painted with special markers, designed to set on this material temporarily or permanently.

You decide if you give him a new mug and draw him a beautiful mandala or funny message, or if you take his own mug and with washable markers write him an interesting message that will brighten his day.

28. Beaded Bracelet

They are very handmade and eye-catching! Bracelets never go out of style and look good on kids who have a rocker or hippie personality.

With leather threads, or with natural fibers, weave the bracelet and place some beads with your initials, the number of years you are turning, your lucky number or the number of years you have been together. It will be a special reminder that you can wear on your wrist!

29. Scented candle

A must have on romantic nights! And they can be very economical if you make them yourself.

You need a white candle and candle wax (paraffin). Melt it in a bain-marie, add essential oils of tangerine, chocolate or the aroma of your choice, and in a jar…