How to Decorate Home Made Holiday Gift Baskets

Decorating holiday gift baskets from home can earn your good money

Holiday gift baskets are a great way to celebrate the season. However, making your own creations from plain baskets allows you tons of creative freedom, as well as the ability to personalize your holiday gift baskets for those who will be receiving them. The best thing about starting with a plain wicker basket is that you can decorate it yourself.

Decorating holiday gift baskets from plain wicker baskets is the easiest way to let your imagination flow and give your holiday gift baskets a personal touch. You can decorate them elaborately or simply, it is really up to you. With the blank canvas of a wicker basket and your creativity, the sky is the limit.

If you do not have much experience with arts and crafts you can decorate your home made holiday gift baskets simply. Use raffia or ribbon to make bows in your favorite colors, or the colors of the person that you are making the holiday gift baskets for. You can also use scraps of fabric as a liner for the holiday chocolate gift baskets.

More experienced crafters will be able to decorate much more elaborately. One way to decorate the basket with a liner is to take a scrap of cloth the size of the inside of the basket. The cloth does not need to be any particular shape, but should cover the inside of the basket completely and allow for spill over the lip.

You can attach the cloth to the holiday gift baskets using a hot glue gun or other sturdy craft glue. If you would like a cushioned basket, you can use another scrap of material of any color to sew a pocket of quilt batting or pillow filler into the bottom of the cloth. The only part of the piece that will show is the original piece of cloth, not the bottom, so the color of the pouch does not matter much.

You decorate the holiday cookie gift baskets further using various ribbons or lace around the lip of the basket, over the cloth that you have already glued there. You can add bows to the handle or the front of the holiday gift baskets. You can also add trinkets or ornaments, woven into the weave of the wicker with raffia.

When you are finished decorating and filling the holiday gift baskets you can attach some cheese cloth or other filmy material to the handle of the basket with a loose stitch or loosely tied raffia. This way the beauty of the holiday gift baskets can be seen without the contents being given away before you are ready to open gifts.