Win £200. Festive Fivers Competition 2008: The best Xmas pressies for under £5

mellymeep

• Name of present? Movie Lovers Gift Box
• Do you make it or buy it? Make/Buy
  
• Total Cost? £5
  
• Details (the more the better) Purhcase a cheap DVD, one you know the reciever loves, decorate an empty shoe box with film related pictures printed off (e.g. film reel, movie stills) fill the box with popcorn/sweets and wrap with cellophane. If you're feeling extra crafty make a personalised movie poster online
  
• Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer
  

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/poster.php
http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/3-/132623/0/-/Promo.html?ob=price&sp=1

p3browning

Home made fondue set
buy and make
about £5 (depends what you want to add as to how much it would cost!)

Buy:
ramekin (Asda) £1
A bar of chocolate (Asda smartprice) 23p 100g

Buy some of these for dipping:Marshmallows 68p 200g
Brazil nuts £1.50 250g
Apricots (Tesco value) £1.98 500g
Fudge (Tesco) 79p 250g

Wrap a selection of items for dipping in celephane and ribbon and the whole set in celephane with ribbon.

There you have it - a home made fondue set! The ingredients will go far so you can make more than one of these quite cheaply!

Leanne

superslim_2

• Name of present?
• "do it yourself" kids activity book
• Do you make it or buy it?
• make it
• Total Cost?
• paper, ink for printing (as much or as little as you wish)
• Details (the more the better)
• web search free downloads/printable items for kids such as :
• colouring pictures, quizzes, word searches , dot to dots, etc and print them out for your own instant book. A cheap file can be purchased for as little as 50p from a supermarket or make your own cover out of card for the child to personalise

pig_let_cool

Name of present: Vinyl Record Bowls
Make or Buy? Make
Total Cost: about 50p-£1
Details: Basically grab some old records you have lying around (or pop to a local charity shop/car boot etc) You then place the record on top of an oven proof glass bowl (i actually used a ceramic cassarole round dish) then put the oven on at about 200 degrees, WATCH IT ALL THE TIME! each record will start to "flop" at different stages!
When you see it flopping i open the oven and with a gloved hand just push the center down a bit into the bowl, this causes the edges to bend and shape into strange shapes which makes each one unique!

Picture:

Linky: http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/vinyl_record_bowl_2_2_2

elliejay2006

Name of present? Homemade vouchers for romantic treats
Do you make it or buy it? make it
Total Cost? free
Details (the more the better)

One valentines day after we had just moved in together and had no money I gave my boyfriend a wad of homemade vouchers. 1 voucher for a 30 minute massage, 1 voucher for a homemade dinner of his choice, 1 voucher for certain other romantic treats (enough said I think - use your imagination to dream up as many different things as you can). He loved them. I made them pretty and funny/ authentic you can do them on a computer, or with some coloured paper and fancy pens. Top tip - put an expiry date on the vouchers, my oh is still harbouring one of his for a rainy day!

Annieuk75

• Name of present?

Grandparents Brag Book

• Do you make it or buy it?

Make and buy

• Total Cost?

A few pounds for a cheap notebook, some coloured card and sellotape
P & P for photos

• Details (the more the better)

Sign up to one of the online photo sites that offer free prints (eg. snapfish) Sign up and use your free prints to print pictures of your children. Pay the P &P and then when they arrive mount onto coloured card and then stick into the notebook. If you want you can add captions or dates to each photo.
My Mum loves showing off her book to all her friends.

• Where possible please add a link if it's an online offer

http://www.snapfish.co.uk/

Annieuk75

Name of present? Handprint Keepsake

Do you make it or buy it? Make it

Total Cost? You can buy cheap card and childrens paint in Wilkinsons for under a pound

Details (the more the better) Print out the following poem for a family member and get your child to either make a border with their handprints or decorate the card with handprints. When I was teaching we always made these as Christmas presents for the children to give their parents - they were always a big hit.

There are always so many of my fingerprints to see,
On the furniture and walls from sticky, grubby me,
But if you stop and think a while,
You'll see I'm growing fast,
Those little handprints will disappear,
You can't bring back the past.
So here's a small reminder,
To keep not throw away,
Of how those tiny hands once looked,
To make you smile one day.

eoweeling

Name of present? I.O.U.
Do you make it or buy it? Make it
Total Cost? Under £1
Details (the more the better) Print out customised I.O.U. vouchers free from websites or you can stretch your creativity and make your own! You can offer anything from a dinner to an hour of dog walking to be claimed by the recipient as and when he/she likes.

AllisonMary

name of present - personal picture frame
do you make it - yes
total cost- around £2.50
details- select a favourite photograph of a loved one or a special memory, choose cheap frame and print own photo off at home. A special memory to let somebody know you care.

SolarFlux

Name of present: Piggy Jar
Do you make it or buy it: Re-use empty coffee Jar
Total Cost: pennies
Details: Don't throw away empty coffe jars. Give them a good clean. Cut a slot in the lid and give them as away as piggy banks. Useful for keeping loose change in. Also encorage kids to save if they see the pennies filling up in the jar.