Chapel Hill Review Christmas Gift Guide: Top Crafts & DIY Gifts

Chapel Hill Review Christmas Gift Guide: Top Crafts & DIY Gifts
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Christmas shopping for your adult friends and family can be difficult.

To take the guesswork out of buying gifts this year, we at Chapel Hill Review asked our friends at The Grommet for their latest and greatest practical gift suggestions for 2021.

These guides are geared towards specific interests. You’ll be able to find something for even the toughest person on your Christmas shopping list.

Top 5 Crafts & DIY Gifts

1) Make-Your-Own BBQ Sauce Kit
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A tasty DIY moment from a make-your-own BBQ sauce kit. It packs everything you need, from gloves to ingredients to bottles, into one kit that can make three bottles-worth of sweet, tangy, or spicy sauce. Stick to the step-by-step instructions or you can flex those creative muscles and try your own recipe. Pick up a few fresh ingredients and you’re ready to get cooking. Made in the USA.

2) Tight Space Paint Brush
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Paint Behind: Tight Space Paint Brush

3) 3D Laser Cut Metal Model Building Kit
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Metal Earth: 3D Laser Cut Metal Model Building Kit – Apollo CSM with LM

4) Color Pour Painting Starter Kit
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Embrace your inner artist with a color pour painting starter kit. Instructions and everything you need to make a beautiful pour project is included, like a drop cloth, stick mixers, canvas, gloves, and even nine pre-mixed paints that eliminate guesswork, so you can focus on making a swirling, colorful masterpiece.

5) Brush Lettering Calligraphy Workbook
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Try your hand at brush lettering with a calligraphy workbook. From a foundation of doing basic strokes on tracing paper, learn lowercase and uppercase letters before finally connecting them. Pick a traditional or modern lettering style to learn.



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