Crafters and artists absolutely LOVE to give handmade gifts. And sure, we make sure to do this on birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas and other special occasions, but if you want to give even more handmade goodness to friends and family, consider all the other “holidays” out there that exist!
There’s a day to celebrate pretty much everything these day! I have chosen 40 of my favourites to give you ideas of things you can celebrate and commemorate with a handmade gift.
February
17th Random Acts of Kindness Day
23rd Banana Bread Day
28th Floral Design Day
March
8th International Women’s Day
14th Mothering Sunday (UK)
17th St. Patrick’s Day
31st Pencil Day
April
4th Handmade Day and Easter Sunday
14th Day of Pink
21 World Creativity and Innovation Day
May
9th Mother’s Day
20th Notebook Day
26th Paper Airplane Day
30th Mother’s Day (France)
June
11th Yarn Bombing Day
14th Cupcake Day
21st World Music Day
July
7th Chocolate Day
25th Thread the Needle Day
30th World Embroidery Day
August
1st Planner Day
8th Bullet Journal Day
11th World Calligraphy Day
19th Photography Day
September
1st Letter Writing Day
15th Make a Hat Day
16th PlayDoh Day
25th Cooking Day
October
2nd Card Making Day
5th World Teachers’ Day
14th Dessert Day
25th Int’l Artists Day
November
11th Origami Day
17th Homemade Bread Day
26th Buy Nothing Day
December
3rd Make a Gift Day
9th Christmas Card Day
15th International Tea Day
23rd Festivus
27th Cut Out Snowflake Day
Of course I’m not suggesting that you celebrate ALL of these. Just pick a few that might be fun for your family, keeping in mind that you will probably still want to make gifts for all the big days. So keep it simple! For Book Giving Day yesterday I gifted crocheted heart bookmarks along with the books.
For example you can make a homemade bouquet for Floral Design Day, put together a gift box of teas for International Tea Day, make a mix tape (!) for World Music Day, or homemade playdoh for World Playdoh Day.
Which of these do you think you’d want to make gifts for? Remember to note the dates and ideas in your bullet journal, and make a plan!
P.S. If you want a complete list of even more fun ways to celebrate this year, sign up for my friend’s Jen’s newsletter.
I spied the banana bread day coming up next week! I recently found the perfect duo for banana bread–a gluten-free flour that I just swap out for regular flour in any recipe and a cinnamon crunch top recipe. Oh my, I think I’m going to have to make a handmade gift of banana bread . . . . and the recipient will be me!!
Thank you for your post Francine!
That sounds so yummy! I have to look up that cinnamon crunch now.
Love having a cheat sheet on how I can create content around meaningful things.
Yes, it’s a great help!
My 2 year old great granddaughter loves to make banana bread, I know what we will be baking next week! Thanks for the list. I love making handmade gifts, I call them gifts from the heart.
Handmade gifts are the best! My son has always helped with banana bread, it’s such a simple recipe.
Great list Francine. I see that the 23rd is Banana Bread day and I love to make break. I didn’t do much baking at all over the holidays (wasn’t feeling it during the nightmare year we had), but feel like this may be a good reason to start. If I do, will make two and give it to one of my church lady friends. I know she would enjoy it. Thanks for sharing this list. I don’t know how to knit, but the hat day would be fun too, lol.
Everyone loves a good banana bread! I am sure she will appreciate it.
Thank you Francine for the gift ideas. Now I just have to get back into the groove of making things 🙂
Notebook day is every day in my house!
Random Acts of Kindness is the engine room of my life.
Cheers F
Notebook Day is my favourite! Definitely every day here too.