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Ideas for pressies
cristin
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Apologies if this has been asked before and if it has maybe someone could point me in the right direction - but I need some ideas for some cheap pressies. My daughter has been asked to two unexpected birthday parties one for a 3 year old and one for a 4 year old, both girls. It is the end of the month and money is a little tight - any bright ideas anyone?
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Do you have a pound land near you? They are fantastic for kids birthday party presents, colouring books, pens and pencils and pencil cases, teddies, stickers, games and puzzles., character bubblies, ... the list is endless and just because they are a pound they are not rubbish. I have bought some really nice stuff in the pound shop! They even sell great gift bags and wrapping (and packs of lovely cards 10 for a pound)I have had brain surgery - sorry if I am a little confused sometimes
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Have you ever tried thebookpeople.co.uk - you can get a set of children's books - ten for under ten pounds and you would then have some presents in reserve for the future.
They do other offers of books that should be £8 for about £2 etc."This site is addictive!"
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I NEVER spend more than a fiver for kids' birthdays. What about a plain flowerpot, some paint and a pack of seeds? dThe child can decorate the pot, plant and grow the seeds. Really cheap, educational and lasting - hopefully!Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
I have done reading too!
To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
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Sarahsaver wrote:I NEVER spend more than a fiver for kids' birthdays. What about a plain flowerpot, some paint and a pack of seeds? dThe child can decorate the pot, plant and grow the seeds. Really cheap, educational and lasting - hopefully!
I like that idea, if you have some seeds you can use a few of those and wrap them up in a little piece of paper and write out the instructions seperatley0 -
cheap, but does your daughter have any bits and pieces that she doesn't want (can't remember having, you know how cute they are when they open their mouths....that was mine but I didn't like it...) that you could recycle??0
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Using SarahSavers and Chris25 ideas how about making them a cress head. Do everything apart from dampening it, leave intructions for them to do that so they can watch it grow.
You could make a 'pot' to stand it in out of decorated strong card (your daughter could decorate it) to make it a bit more gifty you could model eyes/ nose/ ears etc. out of fymo (do they still do that??) or painted sugar dough or plastercine. Just do big ears or just a big nose then draw/ paint the other features on. If you don't have enough tights stuff it with sand or soil.
A fun personalised and educational gift which, with a bit of luck, might go down so well everyone will want one and you won't have to think up ideas for presents for a whole year (though you might be short of tights)
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Some great ideas everyone - they have got me thinking that I don't need to spend a fotune for once :j First thing tomorrow I will hit the pound shops etc and see if I can find pots/seeds/paints to make the "cress head" and maybe make several of them for the price of one! thank you. Just need to get daughter to try and "make" a card and some wrapping paper!0
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Looking for something else I stumbled across THESE Maybe you could call them crayon pots instead of plant pots. You could put all of the items you need to make them in the pot with the instructions printed off the website.When life hands you a lemon, make sure you ask for tequilla and salt0
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when my daughter was helping to fill an xmas shoebox for guides,she made rainbow crayons using the old bits of crayons from the 'art box' and melting them together.Then she bought a little drawing pad to go with them.
A bit stingy but we really didnt have the money for buying a lot of new stuff.0
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