Tell us more about what kind of materials you want to use. For small things it is pretty to cut light weight card board into wreath shapes, glue on pressed and dried flowers or artificial flowers and add a ribbon at the top for a tree ornament. Glitter can be added. Also, wreath shapes can be cut out and wrapped with colored yarn. I would suggest keeping it to something that could be finished within an hours time. For larger things the small straw wreath bases can be wrapped in cloth or ribbon and decorated.

A good gift is to make a sewing kit out of a terracotta pot. I used to teach seniors crafts and we would use the four inch pot. Paint it with acrylics. It needs about three coats. Then we would sponge a contrasting color on it. For the top we would cut a cardboard disk the same size as the top and then cover the top of that with batting and cover with a large gingham circle gathered at the edges and pulled to fit around cardboard. The last steps were to glue a felt circle to the bottom of the cardboard to hide the fabric edges and stitching and then we would make a tab of felt to glue to the side of the pot and glue to the bottom of the cardboard making the lid attached to the pot. Sorry it that sounds vague...wish I could draw it for you. We would then glue one of those dollar store small spools on thread on the lid and fill it with dollar store mending supplies.