Homemade Halloween Gifts for Teens

Halloween is a time for celebration and what better way to do it than by gifting. Personalized Halloween gifts are a special way to express your gratitude for a loved one and make them feel extra special. With a little bit of effort and time you can create wonderful items to gift like a converted picture frame as an artistic gift.

The instructions here will come in handy for you if you are thinking about gifts for teens and have a close teenage member. To start with you will need frames, photos, material, thread, scissors, fiberfill and paint.

a) First pick a few frames from your local store which you can paint and decorate. Buy a simple one to keep your task easy. You should consider your recipient’s likes and personality when choosing the frame.

b) You can now personalize the frame by using paint with colors which are apt for representing the Halloween theme like orange and black.

c) You do not need to be artistic to give your frame an artistic look. You can use the eraser end of a pencil to make a polka-dotted frame and then immersing it in paint to make dots. You can get a marbled effect by mixing different colors together while they are wet. Now you can flick wet paint from your brush onto the frame to have a speckled effect.

d) Next you can glue the decorations that you intended directly onto the frame. Use objects in such a way that they complement the photos that you plan to fix onto the frame. It could be a beach vacation that you shared or snippets of your excursion to a far-off island or anything which was memorable in your life.

e) After you have selected the photo, it can be made to “pop” by adding a mat pattern around the frame. You can do this by using an old pair of jeans or with paper from an old notebook. Note that you have not fixed your photos yet.

f) Then it is time to assemble the frames and fix the photos by gluing them to the mats. Fit everything inside the frames and put a quote or two in your own handwriting to mark the occasion.

You are now ready to gift this nicely designed item as a Halloween gift to a person of your choice and make him or her feel good about the occasion. Amidst the fun that you are guaranteed to have during Halloween, a personalized gift item like a photo frame is always a great way to lend an extra bit of charm to the celebrations and fill it with memories of a lifetime.