7 Fantastic Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Work Buddies!

Aside from your lover, relative, or close friend, sharing Christmas gifts with workers can be a top holiday highlight. Moreover, most companies and organizations hold end-of-year parties that mandate coworkers to be each other’s Secret Santa.

So, want to be the one to offer the best gift or, importantly, cheer up a close work friend? Then, this blog write-up is for you! We’ll review the best Christmas presents for workmates, mainly focusing on cheap and affordable DIY gift ideas. Stick around to get ideas to cheer up your workplace crush. 

Imagine getting no flowers throughout 2024, including valentines, and finally getting them around Christmas. Clutch and Heartwarming, right? Don’t just purchase these unique flowers; go the extra mile and DIY the designs. Trust me, the gift will impress her more.

The bouquet can be designed in different ways, and the recipient’s preferences, like color type, should guide you. Attach a chocolate, gift card, poem/song dedication, and sweet or heartwarming notes.

It is essential to consider the company’s policy on various subjects, like flirting with your workmates. If it’s prohibited, get a bouquet for your janitor, boss, or the downstairs receptionist as a form of appreciation. 

If it isn’t you, you already know the office’s coffee head and the person always at the water dispenser. This gives you the perfect excuse to get them Christmas-branded mugs and water bottles.

Coffee mug designs can emulate Christmas theme images like Santa taking coffee or elves delivering a coffee machine. Also, get a picture of the recipient taking the drink, animate it, and use color adhesive vinyl to fix it on the mug.

Meanwhile, branded water bottles for workmates who visit the gym after work are thoughtful. Design it with gym artwork like biceps, weights, and their favorite pro-lifter athlete. This will show that other workmates notice their passion, effort, and gains.

Try witty, inspirational, or humorous quotes for both Christmas gift ideas. They include the following: 

Ensure the boss doesn’t see some of these phrases; the recipient might find themselves answering to HR. Therefore, it’s crucial to emphasize that some quotes are on a lighter note. 

Are you looking to do something for the entire office? Cricut sticker options like Christmas-themed pictures and humorous quotes are your answer. Design a Santa Cricut sticker for the boss’s computer as Santa, showing them leading the elves or gifting the elves. The latter is a perfect reminder to gift their workers this Christmas season.

Meanwhile, explore your Photoshop skills by editing the recipient’s face on a Santa, elf, or Grinch Cricut character. Also, you can add holiday wishes such as “Happy Holidays,” “Time to Leqave Work and visit the North Pole,” and “I Know You’re Just Showing Up for Formalities, It’s the effing Holiday, Dammit.”

Since Cricuts are affordable Christmas presents, consider designing extra for the recipient’s families or partners. Add quotes like, “They Weren’t Lying, They Were Held at Work All Along,” or “Your Parent Loves You, They Really Work Hard for You Guys.”

Use different paper print types like heat press and sublimation to design and personalize equipment like pens, diaries, workbooks, or toolboxes. For instance, print a sticker photo of the receiver and stick it to their pen, or secretly stick it on their diaries. Alternatively, Design, quote in comment boxes, which can state, “(recipient name) is the workhorse of the office.”

For the construction workers, get a holiday theme sticker and attach it to the recipient's toolbox. Do the same for tape measures, helmets, and heavy-duty tools like hammers. Like the office gadgets, include witty quotes like:

Lastly, you can buy and brand reflector jackets for your construction workmates. It allows you to explore DIY Christmas gift ideas like the recipient’s animated images or multiple quote prints via screen or DTG printing. Meanwhile, you can print your art like glowing Santa mockups or replicate a photo of your coworker. 

If you’re the Secret Santa looking for a more unique Christmas gift, a personalized wine present will do the magic. Firstly, consider the recipient’s taste in wine to ensure your DIY efforts don’t go in vain.

Your initial designs can be based on the Wine’s brand. For instance, customize the ‘Four Cousins’ wine image to be that of your coworkers and label it “The Four Musketeers.”

Also, use DIY Christmas gift inspiration, where you can wrap the bottle in a Santa and the recipient image. Include holiday wishes like “A Bottle straight from the North Pole” or “Sweet as the Times We Shared this Year.” 

If you’re the boss, branded shirt gits are perfect, in addition to organizing the office party. You can explore various ideas like Christmas theme inspirations, which include the following: 

As a subordinate, gift other co-workers DIY shirt presents, where you’re free to use various witty ideas. For instance, design the recipient’s face on a reindeer and include a quote like, “This is how I’ve Been Carrying the Company on my Back.”

Puff vinyl Christmas shirt designs are perfect; you’ll perhaps see the receiver(s) turn them into their favorite clothing. Consider puff emoji artwork, or explore holiday concepts like the lazy Grinch. The secret to making a cool puff vinyl shirt pop is using a simple design. Therefore, avoid wordy texts or extra-large images. 

You don’t have to buy Christmas cards at Walmart or Target. Various crafting methods can help make DIY cardstock Christmas cards. You can create cute and cool Christmas images like Santa, Xmas tree, or pom poms. This is in addition to getting a desired write-up font, and size. Therefore, you’re free to include factors like emojis and glitter in between the text. Cool, right? 

Depending on your specific colleagues, multiple other DIY Christmas gift ideas like personalized caps/hats and branded shoes are also perfect. Explore the mentioned designs to get a reason to put a smile or even bury the hatchet with a work colleague.

So, what will you be crafting and gifting your workmate? If you want something more creative, combine the discussed Christmas gift ideas for workmates, like the wrapped wine plus the bouquet. We hope they’ll love your present, good luck!