Xmas Present Ideas for Children

rainmac

RustyFlange wrote: »

You can pick up cheap recorders in most places, espceially pound strechers etc definately a good idea

To be honest my little men don't need instruments to make a lot of noise :rotfl:

RustyFlange

rainmac wrote: »

To be honest my little men don't need instruments to make a lot of noise :rotfl:

LOL Neither do mine ... My daughter can do that lovely high pitched wail when she doesn't get her own way which is most of the time ... she follows it with a very loud EEEEEEEE in a geordie accent! My son has taken the name ...


ARISTON ... and on and on and on and on and on .... etc

sethsgran

No sew blankets are great I would go with these. I usually buy a nice patterned top fabric then buy a throw from Ikea about £2 and use that for the back.

Titch89

Ride on trike for the 2 yo and a bike for the 4 yo? Or is that not the sort of thing you mean?
Train track
Building blocks

What you said in your original post sounds good to me.

bigmomma051204

My ideas really depend on how healthy you like your kids to be lol - if the kids arent allowed treats of the sugary kind then these will be NO good

Basically what i do as little extra pressies for the kids (ie nieces nephews etc) are things like sweetie dishes...i bought some plastic sundae glasses from john lewis clearance (also places like InStore and Matalan are good) and i then filled then with sweeties.... they can eat the sweeties then re-use the glasses. One year i went a bit further with this idea - old jam jar (covered lid in pretty fabric), filled jar with sweeties, then gave the kids glass painting kits (admittedly not for the younger ones lol!!) as well so that they could decorate the jam jars themselves and keep for pocket money,sweeties etc etc.

Also another good one i have done is even more simple - did a "baking" hamper - bought a baking tin (shaped) and then in it put some plastic cookie cutters (xmas shaped of course!) then added some of those pots of cake toppers (ie silver balls, sugar paste animals, hundreds and thousands etc) and finally some of those gel icing pen thingies.

Also for my sisters little girl (i say little...she is 12 lol!) i put together a "craft basket" - little box with hinged lid from Instore (couple of quid only in january sale) made little felt needle case (couple of pieces of felt sewn together and folded to create the book effect, with flower pic sewn on front) made little pin cushion (which i found really hard for some bizarre reason and i dont expect she uses that either lol!!!) then put in some basic cross stitch patterns which i downloaded from internet FREE and then laminated (on the sly at work tut tut )....trying to think what else i put in....the obvious - cross stitch silks, needles etc. oooh yeah - and i put in a load of patchwork samples (flowery ones,pretty colours etc) which i requested free from various internet sites and off cuts from my materials.
She loved it lol and is still really crafty!

HTH - will try to think of more things i have done...i have to say though - the easiest WAS the sweetie glasses AND they were the faves LOL...no big surprise there then!!!!

greenpixey

I'm due to give birth to my third child any day now so I don't think I'll have much time to do Christmas shopping in town this year.
A baking hamper is a great idea for my 5yr old for Christmas. Also looking at the no sew fleece blanket that has been mentioned a few times.
I learned how to knit earlier this year so I have knitted scarfs and hats for the boys but that's all I got at the moment...

rainmac

greenpixey wrote: »

I'm due to give birth to my third child any day now so I don't think I'll have much time to do Christmas shopping in town this year.
A baking hamper is a great idea for my 5yr old for Christmas. Also looking at the no sew fleece blanket that has been mentioned a few times.
I learned how to knit earlier this year so I have knitted scarfs and hats for the boys but that's all I got at the moment...

Sounds like you're doing pretty well pressie-wise! Good luck with baby number 3

Melon78

greenpixey wrote: »

I'm due to give birth to my third child any day now so I don't think I'll have much time to do Christmas shopping in town this year.
A baking hamper is a great idea for my 5yr old for Christmas. Also looking at the no sew fleece blanket that has been mentioned a few times.
I learned how to knit earlier this year so I have knitted scarfs and hats for the boys but that's all I got at the moment...

Good luck with number 3, my 3rd is 5 months now and having 3 is fab