Gift Baskets – Planning a Theme

Making your own gift baskets for holidays, birthdays, anniversaries or other occasions isn’t as hard as you might think.

The key element of creating a gift basket that the recipient will love is picking the right theme. Once you come up with a fun, exciting theme the rest of the basket planning is easy.

In order to pick a good theme you’ll need to think about the person that you’re giving the basket too and the reason for the gift. Then you should think about ways to personalize the gift basket. Think about the person that the basket is for and think about their hobbies, interests, or other meaningful things.

Try to adapt the basket to fit one of their interests or something meaningful to them. For example, if you are creating a gift basket for a co-worker that likes to craft in her spare time then you should create a craft theme gift basket filled with items like thread, needles, yarn, sewing magazines, knitting patterns, or other tools that a crafter would need. If the person that you’re creating the basket for is a pet lover then you can create a pet theme basket filled with photos of the person’s pets put into nice frames, new leashes or toys, or other pet items.

One of the easiest themes to use for a gift basket is food. A gift basket full of treats is a great gift that most people really enjoy getting, especially if the treats are things that they usually wouldn’t buy for themselves.

But even when you’re giving a food gift basket you can still create a theme and plan a basket based on that theme in order to make sure that the basket is cohesive and doesn’t look like sloppy or haphazardly put together. A gift basket with a romantic theme could have lots of high end chocolate treats along with fruits like strawberries and raspberries and even a bottle of champagne. A “Get Well Soon” basket could be filled with different types of citrus fruits along with magazines or books to help the person pass the time while they recover from an illness. The possibilities for creating elegant, funny, or useful citrus gift baskets are endless if you are willing to take a little time and really think about the person that you’re making the basket for and what he or she would like or what items would be useful to him or her.

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