New Year gifts: basic recommendations and a selection of the best ideas for children and adults

The New Year is still a holiday waiting for a miracle, the fulfillment of innermost desires, gaining hopes and happiness. We start to prepare for it in advance, thinking through clothes and menus. And at midnight they exchange gifts, symbolizing love and respect.

The beginning of the year also passes in an atmosphere of universal love and fireworks of surprises. So there are not many gifts for this magical holiday. After all, in addition to close relatives to give presents will need friends and colleagues.

Main recommendations

The anticipation of miracles will require the selection of unusual gifts, so the preparation for this process is better to begin in advance. You can ask the dearest what they want to get as a gift or start generating unusual ideas yourself.

The first option will allow you to enrich the receivers with the necessary and desirable thing, but deprive the gift of mystery. The second option will help to present a truly exclusive gift, but the reaction to it may not be at all what you wanted to see.

It is not recommended to present:

• cheap souvenirs and rough crafts;
• Underwear and other intimate things;
• All items that may arouse dislike of superstitious people (watches, sharp and cutting objects, mirrors, empty purses).

Not a good gift will be money. Even if the recipient asked for crisp bills, presenting an envelope is considered mauvais ton. In an extreme case, you can make a money tree or fan, create a mini ATM.

It is also not good to pass on things, although such a desire arises quite often.

New Year magnets are usually given to colleagues; it is better not to present such gifts to relatives. Such refrigerator decorations will obviously be given to them at work.

Traditional gifts

If you do not want to think too much about the gift, then quite traditional things will do. They can be decorated in the most attractive way, so that the uniqueness of the surprise will be on top.

Sweet gifts

Since childhood, we all remember that in the Santa Claus bag should be candy, cookies, marshmallows and other sweets. Unfortunately, Santa Claus does not always have time to stop by and see the adults, so this function can be taken over by the giver.

It is easier to give a box of chocolates or a purchased cake, but such a gift will not cause a rush of positive emotions. Much cuter will look:

• sweet bouquets and boxes;
• Individual candies placed in a plastic or glass jar with the inscription: "Vitamins of happiness;
• custom-made cakes, cupcakes, and cakes;
• chocolate cards or coloring books;
• sweet boxes, in which even the buyer does not know the exact composition.

If you want a lot, all these products can be made on their own, investing in the gift of a piece of soul. And for children you can make a Christmas cobbler and fill it with your favorite sweets.

Edible gifts

Unusual and useful gifts will be:

• fruit baskets;
• beer and wine bouquets;
• Cheese and meat slices customized for each recipient;
• sets for making mulled wine and a bottle of wine for making a fragrant drink;
• tea and coffee sets, complete with good chocolates;
• sets of nuts and dried fruits;
• fortune cookies;
• A big bag of tangerines;
• expensive alcohol.

For the older generation, you can put together a "food set" in the style of the 70's and 80's of the last century. In addition to a unique surprise, the giver will be able to recall a bygone youth and get a lot of fascinating stories about bygone times.

An additional plus of such gifts can be their joint consumption, so that the giver has another reason not to save on a gift.

Interior items

Often on New Year's Eve give tableware in the New Year's theme, but such a choice looks rather trivial, so it is better to use it for colleagues or relatives who collect similar collections.

A good way to please the giver and unusually decorate his apartment, house, cottage will be:

• Pretty trivial towels for the kitchen, body or face. In a year, such gifts usually fall into disrepair, and the next year you can use the same option again.
• Candleholders or candles to them.
• Unusual piggy banks, most often with symbols of the coming year. But you must not forget to put there the first installment.
• A scratch card, on which you can mark the learning of the world on trips. But such a gift is better presented to people who are really passionate about travel.
• A magnetic board on the fridge or a marker board for the hallway.
• A salt lamp.
• A calendar.

Textiles

Textiles remain an equally popular way to express your love. And if the tablecloths, napkins, bed linen sets will be mostly enjoyed by the female half of the family, then the more practical gifts will be suitable for all household members and other relatives. Such gifts include:

• funny family T-shirts and pajamas, united by a common picture or inscription (you can order them online or in a specialized photo salon);
• paired robes and plaids;
• plaid with sleeves;
• dumplings;
• slippers with heating or in the form of funny animals.

In the wintertime are popular:

• sweaters;
• scarves;
• mittens and gloves.

Household appliances

As a more expensive presentation can be given:

• microwave oven;
• coffee machine;
• robot vacuum cleaner;
• laptop or a stand for him;
• chargers;
• smart watches.

But such gifts require prior approval from the future recipients. Not everyone will be happy with a technical novelty, especially grandparents, who find it difficult to manage modern technology. For them, it is better to present a tonometer, glucometer, massage tubs for the feet.

Gifts of interest

Those who have hobbies, to please even easier. Excellent gifts will be:

• Kits for making candles or soap;
• Paintings by numbers;
• kits for embroidering or laying a diamond mosaic;
• a toolbox or tools themselves;
• fresheners and other things to furnish your favorite car;
• electronic or paper books;
• gardening supplies and decorative figurines;
• booze games, cooling rocks, color-changing glasses;
• sporting goods or paid season tickets.

Original Gifts.

For those people who already have everything they need for themselves and at home, you can present completely unusual gifts, for example, prepare a blank wish card, in which the recipient will enter all his dreams and will monitor their fulfillment.

Emotional gifts .

A great option would be a joint trip and not necessarily to a foreign tour. Family or with friends can visit:

• An ice skating rink or an ice slide with "waders";
• contact zoo;
• cinema, exhibition, theater, museum;
• swimming pool, bowling, paintball;
• master class.

A cheap option for spending free time together would be a hike in the woods, where hot dumplings and punch (even non-alcoholic) await the "tourists" in a clearing. In larger cities, where the forest is too far away, you can launch Chinese lanterns together, making dreams come true.

Humorous gifts

For those who do not mind laughing, you can stock up on funny pranks in gimmick stores, give cartoons or pictures painted from photographs, made in the spirit of old paintings or futuristic images.

Gifts for children

Little and big kids are waiting for a wonderful winter holiday much stronger than adults. Therefore, parents should try to make a worthy gift. The easiest way to find out the secret desires of the baby through the joint writing of a letter to Santa Claus.

Kids who already do not really believe in the existence of a magician with a bag of gifts, you can put under the tree:

• sports equipment, roller skates, skis, bicycles, scooters;
• creative kits;
• a miracle easel with pencils, paints, crayons, felt-tip pens;
• musical mat;
• soft toy or equipment on the radio control;
• construction set;
• game tent;
• technical innovations.

For older children are suitable certificates to favorite stores, but this gift necessarily need at least a small souvenir or a bag of candy. All children like to receive gifts here and now, not waiting for the opening of the store.

The ideas for New Year gifts can be listed for a long time, but the best surprise will be something that was chosen with love and care. And the price of such a gift will not matter much.

Photos of gifts for the New Year