Homemade Gifts Your Valentine Will Love

If you’re on a budget this Valentine’s Day and don’t want to disappoint your date, make something homemade! Homemade gifts add a personal touch to your Valentine’s Day. Just because you don’t have a lot of cash this Valentine’s doesn’t mean you can’t make the day special. Give your Valentine any of the gifts listed below and they’ll most certainly be impressed by your effort!

1. Make Your Own Bath Products

Bath products are a common Valentine’s Day present and they can be excellent gifts to encourage relaxation. But did you know you can make your own bath products very easily at home? Soap, bath bombs, and sugar scrubs can be made with common household products mixed with essential oils. Pick the product you want to make and search for instructions online. Your Valentine will love that you made their favourite bath products from scratch.

2. Bake Something Sweet

Chocolate covered strawberries can be expensive, especially around Valentine’s Day. But thankfully, you can make chocolate strawberries very easily at home. Even if you’re not an expert baker, you can find a treat that is easy to make for your Valentine. It’ll be just as tasty, maybe even tastier, than if you’d bought it at the store. You’ll surely get bonus points from your date if you make dinner the night of Valentine’s Day to go with your gift!

3. Make a Gift Basket

If you aren’t crafty and don’t trust in your ability to make something from scratch, you can still save money by buying cute and affordable self-care products and arranging them beautifully in a gift basket. Look online for Valentine’s Day basket inspiration and then grab a few small gifts your Valentine will love.

4. Carve a Candle

Candles are affordable gifts but they tend to be a little impersonal. You can make your gift more personal by carving a cute message into whatever candle you plan to give your Valentine. Wax is very easy to carve so plan out your sweet love note and get to work.

5. A Date Jar

With a mason jar and some lolly sticks, you can make a “date jar.” Write out date ideas on the lolly sticks and put them in a mason jar that you’ve decorated. Whenever you and your Valentine want a spontaneous date night, pick something out of the jar. You can even start on the night of Valentine’s if your partner is the adventurous type.

6. Home Made Bouquet

If you cannot afford an expensive bouquet this year, make your own. There are a variety of paper and fabric flowers that are easy to make. Pick your favourite style of home-made flowers and put them in a cute mason jar. Because these flowers won’t require water, feel free to put sweet love notes into the jar as well.

7. Personalise a Frame

Frames are affordable and are easily personalised. You can either decorate the frame directly or you can choose a frame with a white mat and write a romantic note that you will place in the frame alongside the photograph. Choose your favourite photo of you and your Valentine and decorate it for a personal touch.

While Valentine’s Day has been highly commercialised, forget about money and focus on what the day is really about: love. There is no better way to express your love to your Valentine than by making them a gift that came straight from your heart.