Creating the Perfect Graduation Gift

April 19, 2024

By Dayana Quezada

Graduation is a time to celebrate all the accomplishments and achievements with friends, family, and classmates. It marks the beginning of a new era but also marks the end of one. The end of your high school journey is filled with good memories and bittersweet goodbyes. Getting a gift for your friend is a must for graduation. It’s a great way to say goodbye to your friends and showcase your friendship and the fond memories you have created together through the years. 

A photo album or scrapbook 

You can get your friends a photo album and put pictures of your friends, trips, and memories you have created together. It can start off with pictures of when you first met, all the way up until graduation. In each picture, you can add a note about your friend, what you enjoyed that day, or what you’re going to miss from each memory. You can leave some extra space for future trips and friends. 

Card and stuffed animal 

Another gift you can get your friends is a card and a stuffed animal. This gift might seem like a simple one, but it’s a great keepsake object that your friend can keep forever. You can buy a card or make one yourself, but preferably you should make it by hand because it adds more value to your gift. You can add a heart-filled message about the things you have done together, something you’re going to miss about them, inside jokes, or anything that your friend can look back on and remember all the good times you had together. These are all good messages you can add because you can show your friend how much these memories mean to you, which your friend might not have known meant so much to you.

A basket 

Image provided by Nelly Mercado

You can get our friend a basket filled with their favorite snacks, candies, perfume, chips, drinks, jewelry, self-care products, clothes, stuffed animals, games, etc. This basket can be filled with lots of goodies or anything that your friend likes. Once you have that, fill the basket with crinkle paper and add the stuff. Add a graduation balloon and graduation stickers to the box, and add other graduation gifts.

You don’t need to spend a lot of money to show your friends how much you care about them. A simple hug or gesture can be just enough!

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