How to Make Homemade Gifts for Cancer Patients
Cancer patients are often, scared, tired and depressed due to the ongoing battle that they are fighting. You can help to brighten the day of people who are battling this terrible disease by making homemade gifts that show you care. A small gesture such as a gift from a stranger can provide them with hope and comfort.
- Create caps and hats that will offer a chemotherapy patient a new hat to wear if they are losing their hair. You can sew, knit or crochet a hat or cap depending on yur ability. use bright fun cheerful colors when making hats and caps for cancer patients.
- Create journals that you can pass out to the cancer patients that you will be visiting. All you need to do is purchase stickers or scrapbooking paper with cheerful and inspirational sayings on them, and then cut them out and decorate the cover of a plain journal with your stickers and paper. This is a great way for a cancer patient to record their feelings and journey while battling cancer.
- Make blankets or small throws for cancer patients. Chemotherapy often makes a cancer patient cold. Combine this with the cold temperatures in the hospital, and you can see why a blanket would be a great choice. You can sew quilts, crochet or knot a blanket depending on your skills. Any blanket is sure to be appreciated.
- Frame an inspirational quote, poem or saying to boost the spirits of the cancer patients you will be visiting. Choose something that is going to brighten their day and boost their spirits when they read it. You want to remind them that the battle is worth fighting.