Cool Christmas Gifts for Friends

Friends listen when you're down, encourage when things don't go well and provide support when you need it most. At Christmastime, you want to give gifts that express how you feel about your friends and the special friendship you share. The coolest Christmas gifts for friends come more from the heart than the bank account.

 

Evening Out

  • If your friend enjoys an quiet evening out, purchase a gift card for a favorite restaurant. If you are both single or like to spend evenings together, give a coupon of an evening out for the two of you. If your friend is part of a couple or has a family, your friend might enjoy a gift card for a night out with spouse and/or family.

 

Baking

  • If you enjoy baking, bake something for your friends. Some friends might enjoy cookies. Others may enjoy loaves of homemade bread, such as banana, zucchini or other specialty bread. Add cookies to a Christmas plate, either a plastic one that can be thrown away once the cookies are eaten or a nice silver or ceramic plate that the friend can reuse long after the cookies are gone. Secure the cookies with plastic wrap.
    Wrap bread in plastic wrap first before wrapping it in regular wrapping paper. Finish with a ribbon, a bow and a note to refrigerate.

 

Basket

  • Put together a basket focusing on something your friend loves to do. If your friend likes to cook, add any number of items your friend will use in the kitchen, such as paring knives, spatulas, a peeler, baking pan, and so on. Maybe you can add a set of kitchen spices or a recipe book.
    If you have a friend with a favorite sports team, add sports team memorabilia such as a hat, T-shirt, key chain, playing cards, mug, and so on to a basket. Add ribbons in team colors.

Books

  • If your friends loves to read, a cool Christmas gift is a gift bag or basket filled with books the friend is sure to enjoy, whether these are romance, sports, mystery, history or something else entirely. If you think the friend would like to choose the books, give a gift card to a local or online book store.
    For not only a cool but also a unique gift, use a book you do not plan to keep. Glue pages together, leaving the front cover free. Carefully, cut out a hole through the pages to form a secret compartment. Add a gift card, close the book cover securing the gift card inside, wrap and present.

 

Gamer

  • If your friend is a gamer and spends hours in front of the computer or with a game machine, think in terms of a game. Find out what game your friend would like to play and present the game as your gift. If you are also a gamer, set up an afternoon or evening of gaming among friends. You supply the snacks and drinks for the time together.

 

Movie

  • Give a favorite movie for a cool Christmas gift for a friend. Wrap it up with popcorn, a can of soda and other movie snacks.

 

Card

  • To whatever cool Christmas gift you give your friends, add a card in which you explain how much your friend means to you. Your heartfelt words may be the coolest Christmas gift of all.

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