Experience gifts are often thought to be superior to material gifts because they create lasting memories, foster strong bonds, and recipients can garner a greater sense of emotional fulfillment.
Experiences range from traveling to taking a trip, to watching performances or sharing an activity. This blog post is about experience gifts that crafty women are highly likely to enjoy.
Why Choose Experience Gifts Over Material Ones?
Experience gifts can be more unique and meaningful than store-bought presents.
Experience gifts beat taking someone shopping for a pricey leather handbag or a pair of pumps.
You can tailor the experience gift according to the occasion, or your crafty female friend's tastes and preferences.
You can rent a venue if your friend doesn't mind mingling among a larger circle. If your friend is more introverted, you can share a low-key, crafty activity with a limited number of friends.
Should crafts be incorporated into a bachelorette party or hen do for an engaged friend, think about the type of crafts with which everyone can have fun.
Experience gifting can be ecologically friendly.
Enjoying experiences with your crafty women friends instead of buying presents can help prevent stuff or items from accumulating and ending up in a landfill.
Experience gifting helps strengthen the bond among relatives and friends.
Bonding over experiences such as crafty activities provides a safe environment for women friends to open up and socialize. It also helps keep the communication lines open.
Having said all of the above, here are the 11 best experience gifts for your crafty women friends:
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(1.) Host a crafty adult pajama party.
Imagine the uniqueness of a crafty adult pajama party. Instead of having a movie marathon or playing board games as the main activity, crafting will be the focal point.
A few things to consider, though:
- Make sure to choose an inclusive craft, which means everyone can do it regardless of skill level.
- Look for a supplier of craft materials that offers wholesale prices, or allows bulk orders at discounted rates.
- Keep food and refreshments as simple and fuss-free as possible, or just enough to fuel your guests.
(2.) Enroll in a craft class or workshop.
If you want to treat a dear cousin, aunt, or grandma on her birthday, why not enroll in a class or workshop that teaches a specific craft?
Look into announcements at your local community or livelihood center first, before scouring through social media platforms.
(3.) Turn a sporting weekend into a themed craft party.
If you and your women friends are more into sporting events than makeup, mani-pedi sessions, or weekends at the spa, then sports-themed crafts are for you.
(4.) Volunteer.
Volunteering will require at least a few hours from you every week, but you and your crafty friends will reap tremendous benefits.
Whether it's something as simple as starting a ministry at your church that sends handmade greeting cards to orphans, the elderly, prisoners, or soldiers, or an activity that requires more involvement, like facilitating arts and crafts therapy, you'll surely find a place or an opportunity where your creativity and crafting skills are needed.
Need more ideas on how crafty women can volunteer? Read --
9 Volunteer Activities for Crafters
(5.) Make a scrapbook.
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Or, you may have ephemera or paper mementos, like concert tickets, movie passes, cupsleeves from a cafe, etc.
Why not get together and make a scrapbook, to remind everyone in the group of all the things you've experienced?
(6.) Host a craft supplies swap.
Hosting a craft supplies swap is a frugal way for your crafty women friends to get brand new supplies in exchange for their surplus.
To know more about planning a craft supplies swap, read --
How to Host a Craft Supplies Swap
(7.) Recycle or upcycle old stuff.
If you want to cut back further on craft materials, look into anything you may have at home, and turn them into something new by recycling or upcycling them.
For ideas on projects, read --
Quick Crafts: Recycling Old Greeting Cards
7 Ways to Upcycle Old Magazines
(8.) Why buy when you can DIY decorations?
If you and your women friends have been crafting for more than a couple of years, you may have realized how making stuff can be more cost-effective in the long run.
Why not skip buying decorations altogether for occasions like birthdays, Valentine's, Easter, Halloween, and Christmas, gather some of your craft supplies, and craft your own decorations?
To help get you started, here's a tutorial:
(9.) Make snow globes.
An attractive snow globe tends to brighten up a coffee table, a bedside table, or a working desk. Snow globes are also a cost-effective DIY project.
You don't need to buy a bunch of mason jars to make snow globes. You can recycle empty jars of mayonnaise, pickles, fruit preserves, etc.
You can also gather any old figurines or miniature toys in order to place something inside your snow globe.
(10.) Incorporate crafting into ladies' afternoon tea or a pancakes and prosecco brunch.
You don't need any occasion (or any good reason at all) to host a ladies' afternoon tea or a brunch of pancakes with prosecco.
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Decide on a couple of crafts and work on them after you've fed all your crafty women friends.
(11.) Create photo booth props.
If you and your crafty women friends enjoy taking turns in hosting intimate events or parties in each other's homes, why not have everyone take home memories of the events instead of shelling out more cash for giveaways, loot bags, and loot bag fillers?
How? By making photo booth props and having everyone whip out their phones and taking pictures.
For Christmas, you can make headbands with reindeer antlers, sew Santa Claus hats, and make snowmen hats from black cardstock.
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