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DIY Homemade Gift Basket Ideas for Football Players and Fans

Every summer, fall, and winter, hundreds of thousands of football fans and players across America hit the streets, fields, and living room couches to watch or play football. To these fans, football isn’t just a game, it’s a lifestyle. Whether it’s high school football, college, or the NFL, football means everything to anyone who loves the sport. So if you’re considering putting together your own DIY football basket to give away as a prize in a raffle, or as a gift for a friend or family member, you’re making a great decision!

Creating a fun homemade football-themed gift basket isn’t all that difficult, as long as you have a general idea of what to include. There are plenty of cool football related gift items for people of all ages that will fit very nicely within your football gift basket. Choosing among the thousands of options however, can be a challenge.

If you’re having trouble coming up with ideas on what to include in your gift basket, don’t worry because we’ve got you covered like a shutdown cornerback! We’ve put together a great selection of items that you can purchase directly from Amazon and other online retailers to build your own unique DIY football gift basket. We’ve included highly-rated selections at various price ranges to allow you to accommodate your budget, while still allowing you to create a super fun and useful gift basket your gift recipient will go nuts for! Of course, you don’t have to go with our selections, we are only presenting you with a few ideas for items that would make a great addition to your football gift basket theme! You can also find many of these items at your local retailers. Just make sure they are small enough to fit in your gift basket.

For your convenience, we’ve broken out the basket items by category to make it easy for you to build your gift basket. Just select one or more items from each category. And before you know it, you’ll have everything you need to create a super fun and unique football themed gift basket.

DIY Football Gift Baskets are the Perfect Gift for Christmas, Birthdays, and Other Special Occasions!

When deciding on what type of gift items to include in your Football-themed gift basket, consider the following ideas and suggestions. You’ll want to include anywhere between 6 and 10 individual gift items to fill out the gift basket or gift box. The individual gift ideas we selected below generally fall within the $10 – $20 price range, which will allow you to put together a really fun and fantastic looking football gift basket for less than $90. If your budget is around the $50 range, just choose from among the lower cost items.

What to include in your Homemade DIY Football Themed Gift Basket

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Water Bottles and Tumblers

Officially Licensed NFL Water Bottles

Football Design Tumbler

Officially Licensed NFL Tumblers

Gatorade Water Bottle

Football Books

Ultimate Football Trivia Book

The League NFL Book

NFL 100 – A Century of Pro Football Book

Touchdown Kid Book

Think Like a Warrior Book

Relentless Optimism

Legends: The Best Players, Teams, and Games in Football

Football Apparel

Novelty Football Fan Socks

Nike Dri Fit Football Head Tie

NFL Team Joggers

NFL Team Bath Robe

NCAA Kids Football Uniform Set

NLF Team Slippers

NFL Team T-Shirt

More Football Gift Items

Football Dice Game

Under Armour Duffle Bag

Gatorade Sideline Towel

NFL Team Chef Apron Set

NFL Team Wood Bock Stackers Game

NFL Team Sports Sunglasses

NFL Team Jigsaw Puzzle

College Team Beverage Insulator

NFL Team Logo Hanging Wall Bottle Cap Sign

Footballs

Wilson NFL Super Grip Football

Rawlings NFL Team Youth Football

Rawlings Gridiron NFL Team Junior Size Football

Wilson NFL MVP Football

You may also want to consider including some fun things to eat. We suggest adding foods such as dark chocolate, protein bars, trail mix, football shaped cookies, chips and salsa and some other fun snacks to round out your basket. You can probably get the best deals on food items from your local store.

Of course there are thousands of other small gift ideas that would make great additions to your football-themed gift basket. We’ve only scratched the surface. Hopefully our ideas have sparked your imagination and have provided you with a great place to start building your homemade DIY gift basket!

Empty baskets to put your gift items in. You can also consider putting everything in a nice gift box in lieu of a basket!

Best way to arrange your gift basket for a football player or football fan

There is no right or wrong way to arrange or organize your gift basket. As long as you have a great combination of gift items to fill your basket with, you should have a great looking gift. Follow these steps and you’ll have a great looking gift in no time at all.

Line the bottom of your basket or box with tissue paper or some other filler such as shredded colored paper.
Add the larger items that you have selected to the bottom of the basket.
Arrange any smaller items to sit on top of and between the larger items.
Wrap your basket in cellophane and tie off with a colored bow and gift tag.