Gift hampers are a wonderful way to gift many items to a loved one. Instead of breaking your head over that one gift you might give, why not give a whole hamper of gifts?
This might sound expensive and difficult, but it really isn’t. You can select a variety of inexpensive items to go into the hamper. As for difficulty, you can design the hamper around a theme, like the hobby of the recipient.
As for finding out the hobby, you can do a bit of snooping around like ask friends, family and colleagues or peek into their social media accounts like Twitter or Facebook. Once you have discovered the hobby of the person, it is really easy to come up with inexpensive but useful items to fill the hamper.
Here are a few ideas for hobby based gift hampers:
Music Lover’s Basket
This is a basket for someone who loves music, whether she plays an instrument, works in a music related industry or simply loves to sing in the shower.
- Container: Can be a CD storage box/ a basket/ bag featuring built-in speakers
- Earphones: Essential gift for music lovers from simple ones to heavy duty professional ones
- Portable speakers: to share music with others
- 3.5 mm audio jack splitter: so two people can enjoy the music at the same time
- FM transmitter: ideal for car stereo.
- MP Player: If your loved one does not yet have a media Player, get her one and upload some of her favourite music on it.
- Music: The best gift is the music loved by the recipient like favourite band/ composer/ artist, etc. you can down load music for free from sites like Amazon and Musopen.
- CD rack/ storage box: for those who are collecting CD’s.
- Musical instruments: A roll up drum kit / electric piano/ harmonica or flute
- Vinyl records: For music lovers who want to store their music in digital format.
- Concert tickets: Tickets for his/her favourite musical act
- Karaoke set: To sing along.
- Shower radio: Water resistant radio to play while showering.
- For those who want to play music: Sheet music, sheet music stand, sheet music clip, accessories for instruments, and music themed memorabilia.
Gardening Gift Basket:
- Container: tote for garden tools/basket/ large pot/leaf bag/ straw hat/rain barrel
- Pillow: to rest knees while gardening
- Stool: to rest while working in the garden
- Water hose nozzle: In all shapes and sizes to minimize usage of water
- Seeds: flower seeds, vegetables seeds, flower bulbs
- Planting tray: to get started on seeds
- Plants
- Gloves: keep clean and protect from nettles and thorns
- Hat: to protect from sun
- Sun screen
- Water bottle: To keep thirst at bay
- Pruner/ hand shears
- Trowel/ Shovel
- Garden cultivator: to comb the soil surrounding the plants
- Water spray bottle
- Watering can
- A kit to make scarecrows
- Rain barrel: A device to collect rain water
- Garden leaf bag: to pile up all the dry leaves while cleaning the garden
- Solar lights
- Bird house
- Books and magazines on gardening
These are some of the great ideas on hobby based gift hampers. You can send these gift hampers by post to your loved ones.