Know a Grad? These Easy College Gift Bags Only Cost Reader Michelle $3.50 Each to Make!
Attn: parents, relatives, friends, or anyone who knows a grad.
This week’s Happy Friday idea comes in from Hip2Save reader, Michelle, and she put together some cute and easy graduate gift bags for only $3.50 each!
Thank you for the $1 flip flop deals! I made these cute flip flops for some high school seniors. I cut out the university logo using heat transfer vinyl and just heat pressed them into the heel.
I am coupling these “shower shoes” with an embroidered bath towel with their name for a nice grad gift!! I picked up the towels at JCPenney with a $10 off of $10 coupons (with the help of my husband and daughter). Each towel cost about $2.50.
Total cost for each grad gift was $3.50! I am so excited to give these away! Thanks, Hip2Save!!
What a thoughtful gift!
Not only is this college-ready gift bag such a sweet gesture, but we also love that Michelle upgraded her frugal finds with personalized touches. What a fun way to send those recent grads off to college.
Thanks for sharing your adorable gift idea, Michelle!
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Such a great idea Michelle!! Those shower shoes are awesome and the monogram towel will help with the disappearing act of their towels that sometimes happens at college! LOL! You rock!
Thank you for your kind words! 😊
How creative and super cute!
Thank you! I am so happy you like the idea!
Awesome gift idea!! Nice work!
Thank you, I am so excited to give them away!
I love your gifts Michelle!! Great work ❤️🙌
Thank you, Lina! You are the queen of fun, frugal gifts! 💕
I love this!!
Thank you😬
Love it! I always envy people who can be soo easily creative. Such a unique idea but also simple and not pretentious. Nothing beats the feeling of a cool gift that everybody who sees it talks about. This IS that gift… 👍👍
Thank you, this made my day! ❤️
Did you get them embroidered or did you do it yourself?
I embroidered the towels myself!
What did you use to embroider the towels if you don’t mind sharing. Thanks!
This is super! I’m looking for ProGrad gifts & this would be a winner!
Hi Evan, I have a Pfaff Creative 2144 sewing machine that I purchased 15 years ago. Still works great! Maybe you could find a used machine. Otherwise, you could find a local embroidery place that would embroider a name onto your towel for less than $10. Just an idea to check out.
Michelle, what brand of vinyl transfers did u use? I know some are not that good. Are these ones I can pop into an inkjet printer or are these cricut ones? Thank you!! Love your idea!!
I use siser easyweed HTV. I cut it with my silhouette cameo. Super easy. Just heat press for 10 seconds, doesn’t require a lot of pressure. Hope this helps!
Super cool idea. What do you use to heat press?
You can use an iron or a heat press. I have a heat press that I bought on Craigslist, but I know cricut has a craft press that is reasonable. For this small project an iron would be just fine.
How creative! And useful!
Thank you!
How perfect! Great job!
Thank you for the sweet comment!
Love this idea!
Thank you!
Such a great idea and something they will use daily!
I sure hope they use them! Thank you!
Wow, so very impressed! You did a super job, thanks for sharing!
I am glad you like them! It was a fun project!
These are gifts that will get used again and again. I love personalized embroidered towels!
Me too! Thank you!
This is so creative. Love your personal touches on these. It adds so much!
You are so sweet, thank you!😊
Wow, these turned out great! You are so creative! The towels would make an awesome wedding gift too! 🙂
Yes, I have made these towels for wedding gifts too! They are also great for birthday gifts at any age!
I don’t have a way to embroider but I can use my cricut for the flip flops. What would be something else that I could make that is inexpensive to go along with some flip flops?
You could personalize a make-up bag, or a laundry basket. If you find a towel that has a non-loop stripe, you could use HTV to personalize instead of embroidery. Or personalize a pillowcase using flocked HTV. I have also made university logo car window stickers using Oracal 651 adhesive vinyl. Or customize a small dry erase board for them to hang on their dorm room door.
Wonderful ideas. Thanks so much.