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Inexpensive DIY Garden Gifts

October 8, 2021 by Alice 6 Comments

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DIY garden gifts are a brilliant way to solve two problems.

Firstly, what to get someone who likes gardening and especially what to get the gardener who has everything.

But secondly, how to make free or inexpensive gifts from your garden as cheap DIY Christmas gifts or homemade presents for birthdays, Mothers Day, thank yous or party favours.

So I have for you here a big collection of inexpensive DIY garden gifts that deliver on both of those.

There’s lots of cool gift ideas for a keen gardener or garden lover but also lovely and unusual gardening gifts that are great for anyone else on your gift list including beginner gardeners

These DIY garden gifts are all genuinely inexpensive and simple to make with what you have in you garden or around your home.

Even better most of them are easy enough for kids to help make, so they can be lovely gardening presents for grandparents and teachers.

Have a browse through or if you are looking for something specific use the table of contents below.

I do hope you find lots of inspiration for your 2021 Christmas present list. Don’t forget to bookmark or save for later.

And for even more inspiration check out my big guide to Cheap DIY Christmas Gifts.

Inexpensive DIY Garden Gifts

35 DIY Gardening Gifts

Table of Contents

  • Pressed Flower Gifts
    • Pressed Flower Frames
    • Pressed Flower Bookmarks
  • A Gift Of Christmas Bulbs
    • Pots of Forced Bulbs
    • Pots of Paperwhites & Daffodils
    • Pots of Hyacinth
    • Old Candle Holder Pots For Little Bulbs
  • Old Sweatshirt Garden Gloves
  • DIY Garden Kneeling Pad
  • Gardeners Soap
  • Upcycled Planter Baskets
  • Upcycled Windchimes
  • Teacup Planter Pots
    • Easy Teacup Succulents
    • Upcycled Teacup
    • Teacup Herb Garden
    • Hanging Teacup Planter
  • Upcycled Paint Pot Planters
  • Mini Herb Garden
  • Garden Twine Dispenser
  • Garden Gifts For Kids
    • DIY Terrarium Kit
    • Teacup Fairy Garden
    • Upcycled Toy Planter
    • Lego Garden
    • Pumpkin Growing Kit
    • Sunflower Growing Kit
  • Garden Gifts From Kids
    • Decoupage Soup Tin Vases
    • Marbled Plant Pots
    • Wooden Spoon Plant Markers
    • Stone Plant Markers
    • Garden Stone Photo Holders
    • Peg Plant Markers

Pressed Flower Gifts

Pressed Flower Frames

Pressed flowers from the garden in an old frame make a lovely but super cheap and easy gardening gift for Christmas, mothers day or birthdays that even young children can help make.

If you’ve not pressed flowers before follow these simple instructions on how to press flowers (the microwave tip is a good one we’ve used a lot) …

Inexpensive DIY Garden Gifts - Pressed Flower Frames

Pressed Flower Bookmarks

Pretty pressed flower bookmarks are also super lovely and simple enough for kids to make. You just need some sticky back plastic and can then add ribbon or little handmade tassels …

Pressed Flower Bookmarks As A DIY Garden Gift

A Gift Of Christmas Bulbs

Pots of Forced Bulbs

A pot of just flowering bulbs can be a wonderfully joyful gift in the dark days of winter. If you plant bulbs in autumn they can be forced for Christmas flowering as DIY gifts …

Pots of Paperwhites & Daffodils

Little pots of forced bulbs are a great solution if you need lots of very inexpensive little gifts for teachers and neighbours for example or for party favours. Daffodils are the cheapest option & you can easily make 10 pots worth for under a fiver …

Pots of Hyacinth

Hyacinth bulbs are pricey but just one in an old jar can make a beautiful DIY Christmas gift from kids to grandparents …

Old Candle Holder Pots For Little Bulbs

Any used old candle holder pots you have around the home can be easily converted into pot holders for all sorts of plants but can be a lovely cheap way to make a little pot of forced crocus or snowdrop bulbs look special as a gift …

Old Sweatshirt Garden Gloves

All gardeners are always in need of new garden gloves. Mine are like my glasses – they are constantly vanishing.

So for keen gardeners transform an old sweatshirt into funky garden gloves as a very inexpensive DIY garden gift. Again this looks tricky but is honesty a seriously simple homemade gift you can make in less than an hour …

Inexpensive DIY Garden Gifts - Upcycled Garden Gloves
Original Image : Lately Reconstructed

DIY Garden Kneeling Pad

Another fabulous DIY gift for keen gardeners and garden lovers is a garden kneeling pad. It’s a garden essential when you’re planting or weeding. Nice ones are often not cheap to buy but you can easily make one as a very inexpensive gift from an oil cloth table cover or canvas bag stuffed with a cut up old towel …

DIY Garden Gift - Kneeling Pad
Original image source : Homespun Seasonal Living

Gardeners Soap

Soap making sounds complicated but it is truly not. It can be a lovely cheap way to make lots of little gardening gifts as all you need is a few pounds of soap base plus ingredients you have in your kitchen or garden …

Upcycled Planter Baskets

If you have a bigger stash of hessian (burlap) bags for life than you could ever possibly need, you can upcycle them into hanging baskets with straps from old belts or bags.

All you have to do is roughly sew together four rectangles and a base square and then attach your straps, you don’t even need to hem anything.

If you don’t have hessian you could use denim from old jeans with a plastic bag lining …

Upcycled Planter Baskets As DIY Garden Gifts

Upcycled Windchimes

Simple DIY windchimes make a lovely garden gift for all those many garden lovers who much prefer sitting to digging in the garden!

If you’ve got a kitchen drawer cluttered full of unused cutlery transform it into a pretty upcycled windchime with wire and beads from old jewellery …

Upcycled Wind Chime - DIY Garden Gift
Original image : That’s My Story

Or if you don’t have cutlery you – or your kids – could make a garden windchime gift with just a bit of driftwood, seashells and old buttons …

Seashell DIY Windchime
Original image : Home Sweet Homemade

Teacup Planter Pots

If you have any old teacups or mugs or little jugs cluttering your kitchen – or can get some for free on a freecycling group – you can easily transform them into super lovely planter pots as DIY gifts for mothers, grandmas & teachers …

Old Teacups As Planter Pots Make Lovely Cheap DIY Gifts

You can add a drainage hole if you’ve got a drill with a diamond tip head but if that sounds anything but easy just add stones or grit to the bottom to help drainage and don’t over water.

Easy Teacup Succulents

It’s easy to split succulents to create new plants for free & they look super sweet in an old teacup. If you don’t have any succulents of your own to split it can be cheaper to buy one bigger one to divide between multiple little DIY gift pots. Old teacups again make lovely little DIY pots …

Upcycled Teacup

If you have only got a very plain white cup – or even a bowl – to declutter and it doesn’t look like much, you could very quickly and easily upcycle into a lovely gift with nothing more than nail varnish …

Teacup Herb Garden

If you have got some serious kitchen decluttering to do or can get your hands on a good number of old cups you could create a whole little herb garden from free herb cuttings …

Inexpensive DIY Garden Gifts - Teacup Herb Garden
Original image source : The Bowerbird Stories

Hanging Teacup Planter

Old teacups can also be easily transformed into hanging planters. This planter looks tricky but is actually super quick to make from an old cup and some string and will delight any garden lover …

Upcycled Paint Pot Planters

If you are a gardener yourself, good quality cuttings are obviously an incredibly inexpensive way to give gifts to other garden lovers or beginner gardeners but if it is going to be a great gift, it needs a great pot and great pots can be expensive.

So it is time to declutter your garage and upcycle old paint pots.

There are all sorts of clever ways to upcycle them into gift planters to match the style of whoever you are giving to. You can even upcycle them with that last bit of paint inside that you’ve been holding onto “just in case”.

With a bit of gold paint you can go for a glamorous luxe look …

Painted Tin Can Planter
For full tutorial : The Crafted Sparrow

Or something a bit more minimalist …

Or you could create a distressed hanging pot that would work with simple rustic decor …

If you’ve got a bit more time – and some basic decoupage skill – you could even create a real statement gift pot for a garden loving friend for nothing more than the price of some glue and varnish …

Mini Herb Garden

Most herbs, including rosemary, oregano & thyme grow quickly & easily from cuttings. So take tiny cuttings from your own garden or a neighbours, root them in jars of water & then pot up in recycled pots or jars.

You could put them in a mason jar as simple mason jar gifts are always popular but to keep things cheap you can use any interesting jar that turns up in your kitchen cupboard …

Mason Jar Herb Garden As Cheap DIY Christmas Gift

Garden Twine Dispenser

A garden twine dispenser does not sound like the most exciting gifts but it will be a winner – trust me – as a little gift for the keen gardener who has everything. My garden twine – along with my gloves & secateurs – is always vanishing …

Garden Gifts For Kids

DIY Terrarium Kit

If you are looking for simple inexpensive DIY gifts you can make from your garden for kids, you can easily put together a DIY terrarium kit with from an old jar. You could make it a mason jar gift if you have one going spare but any old jar will do …

Inexpensive DIY Garden Gifts - DIY Terrarium
Original image source: Whit & Whistle

Teacup Fairy Garden

Not all gardening gifts are going to be a hit with kids. We need to use a little bit of imagination.

But a teacup succulent transformed into a tiny fairy garden would make a super sweet gift for kids …

Upcycled Toy Planter

For something funkier for kids you can even transform old plastic toys into super cool upcycled planters …

Lego Garden

Or if like me you have a lego mad kid you could create a miniature lego garden for them …

Pumpkin Growing Kit

Pumpkins are one of the most fun things for kids to grow in the garden. Growing their own Halloween pumpkin is especially cool. So little pumpkin growing kits for kids are great for a whole bunch of stocking fillers or party favours. Etsy will happily take a tenner or more from you per kit but you can easily make 10 from one little packet of seeds and some cleaned up garden pots …

Sunflower Growing Kit

Sunflowers are up there with pumpkins as the most fun things for kids to grow.

So again for cheap DIY stocking stuffers and party favours create little sunflower growing kits for kids with a few seeds, a starter pot & simple instructions …

Garden Gifts From Kids

Even young children could easily make – or at least help with – almost all these DIY garden gifts but there are more ideas here for garden gifts from kids that are super easy but would still be lovely presents for keen gardeners and garden lovers in your family.

Decoupage Soup Tin Vases

Decoupage sounds incredibly complicated but is actually just sticking bits of paper onto something and varnishing over it i.e. a perfect Christmas craft for kids. And they could use decoupage to transform old soup cans into a pretty vase for an incredibly cheap DIY garden gift for grandma or a teacher …

Marbled Plant Pots

Marbling again sounds tricky if you are not crafty but is really a lovely way for kids to jazz up any terracotta or plastic pots you have that are too grotty even when cleaned to give as gifts.

It’s also both a wonderful colour mixing activity for kids and a great way to use up any old remnants of acrylic paint you have cluttering the garage!!

There’s a very simple tutorial here on how to marble pots …

Wooden Spoon Plant Markers

If you have gazillion wooden spoons cluttering the kitchen help your kids transform them into plant markers for family gardeners …

Stone Plant Markers

Or with nothing more than a few stones create these herb markers. They are so simple but would make super sweet – and totally free – stocking stuffers for a garden loving grandma …

Stone Plant Markers As A Cheap DIY Christmas Gift

Garden Stone Photo Holders

For another fabulously cheap garden gift for grandparents your kids could also make these cool photo holders with painted stones from the garden …

Wine Cork Plant Markers

If you need a very last minute gift for a garden – and wine – lover in the family, kids can transform a handful of wine corks and kebab sticks into plant markers. Keen gardeners can never have enough markers.

Simply tie them in a bundle with cute twine or ribbon …

Peg Plant Markers

Or simply get them to decorate old wooden pegs. Let them paint a way in any which way you like and then mark up the pegs once they are dry ..

And there you go, over 35 inexpensive DIY garden gifts you can make quickly and simply for keen gardeners and garden lovers and for everyone else on your gift list from your garden.

For even more Christmas gift ideas do check out these posts :

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