Creative gift ideas with poinsettias. Symbolic presents for every taste

A poinsettia in a homemade flower bowl is a beautiful gift which can easily be tailored to the personal taste of the recipient.

This bowl made from old book pages is the ultimate gift idea for all bookworms. With a polystyrene hemisphere, cling film, an old book, paste and a paintbrush, you can create this unique project in just a few steps. A poinsettia, candle, wooden star and cones are the perfect finishing touches to the gift.

Here’s how to make it: Wrap the hemisphere with cling film. Remove the pages from the book and tear them into small pieces. Coat the pieces with paste and stick them onto the hemisphere one by one until it’s completely covered with several layers of paper.

A poinsettia in a bowl made from nuts and cones is a great gift idea for anyone who loves nature. This rustic DIY container is simple to make.

You’ll need a poinsettia, posing compost, a polystyrene bowl, hazelnuts and walnuts, cones, a hot glue gun and glue sticks, moss, mossing pins, cord and a decorative wooden star.

Here’s how to make it: Attach the moss to the outside of the polystyrene bowl using the mossing pins.

Then stick the nuts and cones close together on the moss, fill the bowl with compost and plant the poinsettia inside. Finally, attach the star to the arrangement with the cord. Done!

If you’re looking for a floral gift that will be remembered by the recipient for a long time, we recommend a homemade Advent poinsettia arrangement. It’ll be on show for at least 24 days so will last much longer than any bouquet of flowers.

An Advent display, featuring a calendar candle in a bowl of mini poinsettias, makes a lovely gift idea you can create in no time. Adding a layer of drainage to the bottom of the bowl helps prevent waterlogging. Wax stickers are ideal for fixing the candle in place.

Tip: Alternatively, you can create this arrangement with floral foam and cut poinsettias.

Instead of a bowl, you could also create an Advent arrangement using a Christmas biscuit tin. For this DIY floral display, you will need a metal biscuit (or other) tin, two mini poinsettias, a matching Advent calendar candle, three small planters, clay, moss, spruce and juniper branches, secateurs, reel wire, small cones and golden Christmas baubles.

Step 1: Fill one of the small planters with clay and place the Advent calendar candle in it. Place the mini poinsettias in the other two planters and arrange all three in the tin.

Step 2: Fill the spaces in between with moss, spruce and juniper branches.

Step 3: Wire the cones and insert them between the green branches.

Step 4: Decorate the arrangement with gold baubles.

Tip: Ideally, give the mini poinsettias a tiny amount of lukewarm water every day  to avoid waterlogging!

This will keep these little plants looking beautiful throughout the Christmas season.

This poinsettia display is the perfect gift for nature lovers who appreciate something special. It’s easier to make than it looks. To frame the poinsettia, place it and its planter on a log slice.

Cut a metal hoop and insert each end into pre-drilled holes on either side of the log slice. Cover the top of the ring with wild clematis vine (Clematis vitabla).

Loosely wrap the lower part of the hoop with chicken wire, then wrap the wire with moss and decorate with natural materials of your choice. A decorative star adds the finishing touch to this craft idea.