Gifts for Preschool Graduates: A Collection of Heartfelt Handmade Ideas
As graduation season approaches, many teachers may be thinking about giving heartfelt gifts from current students to those who are graduating.
Handmade items have a special warmth that makes both the giver and the recipient feel special.
Here, we introduce ideas for graduation gifts using familiar materials like plastic bottle caps and paper cartons.
Everything—from magnets and trinket boxes to photo frames—can be made together with the children.
Celebrate the graduates’ new beginning with a one-of-a-kind gift!
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Gifts for Preschool Graduates! A Collection of Heartfelt Handmade Ideas (91–100)
Lantern-style memo stand
Make it with a plastic cup! Here’s an idea for a lantern-like memo stand.
A memo stand is an item used to hold memos or cards upright.
It’s handy for placing on a shelf or table to keep memos organized and easy to see! Since it’s handmade, it’s both practical and warm in feel.
You’ll need a plastic cup, transparent origami paper, scissors, glue, a craft knife, and a message card.
If you turn on a light inside the plastic cup, it looks lovely—just like a lantern!
Making gifts for kindergarten graduates
How about incorporating the making of graduation gifts into an art activity, where the current students create presents to give to the graduates? Let’s make practical gifts that are fun to create and will become memorable keepsakes for the graduating children.
For example, you can make photo frames using cardboard or empty boxes and put in photos from their time at the kindergarten, pencil holders using milk cartons or plastic bottles, or bookmarks that they can continue to use in elementary school—these are all practical and highly recommended.
Put your heartfelt wishes for the graduates into making these wonderful gifts.
Gifts for Preschool Graduates! A Collection of Heartfelt Handmade Ideas (101–110)
Handmade stickers
Some kids enjoy collecting different kinds of stickers.
How about making some handmade stickers to add to their collection as a gift? Stick one side of double-sided tape onto a piece of parchment (baking) paper, and attach your illustration or other design to the other side.
Then cover the surface with clear tape to seal it, and cut it out to match the design—your handmade sticker is complete.
You can make stickers from hand-drawn illustrations, magazine clippings, and more, so think of designs that suit the person you’re gifting them to.
Handmade magnet
Let’s try making handy homemade magnets for posting school worksheets, photos with friends, letters, and more.
Place a magnet into a silicone mold, add a glue stick in your favorite color, and warm it in the microwave.
Once the stick hardens, remove it and attach beads or other decorations to the side without the magnet—done! You can also make DIY magnets from items like fabric-covered buttons or acrylic keychains, so try creating them in whatever way you like.
A bouquet made with paint
The key is to finish by twirling with a cotton swab! Here are some ideas for making bouquets with paint.
Receiving a bouquet fills you with joy and emotion, doesn’t it? The colors and types of flowers convey the giver’s thoughts and feelings, warming the recipient’s heart.
This time, let’s use paint and cotton swabs to create a one-of-a-kind, special bouquet! You’ll need drawing paper, paint, cotton swabs, crayons or colored pencils, and stickers.
It’s sure to make a gift that expresses love and gratitude.
Album card
An album card that can hold memorable photos is also a highly recommended idea.
Since there are various shapes, start by finding one you like and use it as inspiration.
There are standard book-style albums and horizontally long albums, for example.
Options with a mechanism that lets the cover open separately, or designs featuring popular characters, are great too.
Part of the charm of this idea is the excitement of thinking, “What kind of album would make them happy?” while you plan it.
Mini Herbarium
You can make it with materials from the 100-yen shop! Here’s how to create a herbarium—perfect as a gift made by current kindergarteners.
The materials are herbarium oil, a glass bottle, stickers, a clear sheet, and floral motifs.
Cut the clear sheet to fit the container and apply the stickers.
Place the cut piece inside the container.
You can also substitute shrink plastic (pla-ban) for the clear sheet, so give it a try.
Next, keep cutting your favorite flowers and put them into the container—and you’re done! If the container is small, using tweezers is recommended.
