Xmas eve hamper - better than last year

jetty

lol, i hijacked the making thread by talking about xmas eve hampers, now i'm here talking about making things!!! :rotfl:

ailuro2

Cutterby wrote: »

My DD is 7 this year so she's much more wanting to do things now so I'm planning planning planning! I'm such a Christmas nut cos we didn't have it when I was a child... (unfortunately not due to religious reasons ) So I want to make memories that last forever for my gorgeous girl!

Sorry you don't have Happy memories of Crimbo, I don't really either but in our case it wasn't for the want of trying...

We were under so much pressure when I was a kid to enjoy Christmas because of the sascrifice and effort put into it, something would inevitably go wrong then it would end up unravelling pretty swiftly into a big ding dong of an argument because tempers were so frayed:o.

Keep the easy baking in the list for Christmas Eve, plan time to relax during the next day. We have had years when we all had a nap after Christmas dinner after being up really early in the morning. It's a special day, but too easily ruined by a massive build up followed by the realisation that it's just another winter's day.;)

pixie1

Im going to make one of these for my neice who is visiting us from the UK, i cant wait!

So far on my list i have -

Christmas pyjamas
Christmas slipper
christmas bubble bath & soap
a santa please stop here sign
food for the reigndears and a mince pie for santa
christmas mug and hot choc drink
popcorn and a christmas movie
christmas bedtime story book


anymore ideas? she is 4?

Thanks

Pix x

Cutterby

jetty wrote: »

Last year was my first year at making things and i was surprised at how easy some things could be. As Midnight said, start with pots of gold, they can't go wrong And i'd definitely recommend a sock monkey, your daughter will love these! I'm planning to do a cookie in a jar but have no clue so i'm off to find help, everyone here is lovely so whenever you're stuck, just ask

Aww, thank you Jetty Can't make my mind up about the sock monkeys, they look lovely but I'm not sure I could do one

ailuro2 wrote: »

Sorry you don't have Happy memories of Crimbo, I don't really either but in our case it wasn't for the want of trying...

We were under so much pressure when I was a kid to enjoy Christmas because of the sascrifice and effort put into it, something would inevitably go wrong then it would end up unravelling pretty swiftly into a big ding dong of an argument because tempers were so frayed:o.

Keep the easy baking in the list for Christmas Eve, plan time to relax during the next day. We have had years when we all had a nap after Christmas dinner after being up really early in the morning. It's a special day, but too easily ruined by a massive build up followed by the realisation that it's just another winter's day.;)

Thank you ailuro I didn't have the best mum (is that a violin I can hear?! ) so I think I probably try and overcompensate for that with my own daughter - which did turn me into a nightmare last year actually... I'd planned and made lists and planned some more and just like you said, something went wrong and I had a [STRIKE]big small [/STRIKE]medium sized hissy fit. Was actually quite ashamed of myself so I took myself off upstairs to calm down, when I came back downstairs the gingerbread house had been made and was being decorated - made me feel even worse! I'm determined that won't happen again this year though, which is why I'm wanting to get as organised as possible so the few days we have together as a family (husband has asked for the week off work, fingers crossed!!) is as wonderful as possible

Thank you again, I'm off to raid your wonderful ideas some more

Cutterby

pixie1 wrote: »

Im going to make one of these for my neice who is visiting us from the UK, i cant wait!

So far on my list i have -

Christmas pyjamas
Christmas slipper
christmas bubble bath & soap
a santa please stop here sign
food for the reigndears and a mince pie for santa
christmas mug and hot choc drink
popcorn and a christmas movie
christmas bedtime story book


anymore ideas? she is 4?

Thanks

Pix x

Hi pixie I did this last year for the three of us, DD was 6 and we had the same as you've got, plus a blanket each for snuggling into (Winnie the Pooh for DD and Spongebob for DH :rotfl:) , some free printouts off the net for DD - a "you're officially on the nice list" certificate from Santa and a letter from Santa - I laminated both and they're still up on her bedroom wall! - some colouring in pages and a few scraps of paper for her to write Santa a little note to leave out for him. Think that was everything... Oh and a small basket of our favourite sweets each for us to pig out on while watching Christmas tv - surprisingly these baskets lasted well into the New Year!


Hope that's some help

Edited to add, we've started buying a new Christmassy ornament each year for DD to put on tree on Christmas Eve, last year's was a bauble with DD's name on which she found in the hamper and was thrilled with!

abdonz

wow i love the idea of a christmas eve hamper there are 5 of us so need to start early so can spread out the cost. but having been reading for past hr i have put together my first ever chrismas eve hamper
pjs
slipper socks
christmassy dvd
christmassy book
popcorn t/brush
magic key

what do u think? i am going to put everyones in a little bag then put them in a basket with a tin of eg roses and the magic key

smiler34

Hi all, thanks to the person who bumped this thread. My list so far is

PJs
Snowman soup
Biscuits
xmas dvd
xmas story
bubble bath
reindeer food
xmas mug
santa plate and carrot

Mine is gonna be left on xmas eve afternoon and my babies are 4 1/2, 3 and 1

xx

MultipleMumma

Hi I just joined the forum today and am an utter Christmas nut ( that's how I found it ) I thought I just about had everything covered for the festivities when I discovered this thread. I know people who just buy new pj's for Christmas Eve but a whole hamper!! What a fab idea :T
There are 6 of us here, two adults, two grown up boys & twins aged 4. I am sorry that I didn't know about the hampers earlier as my boys didn't get them so I think I will do a very large combined hamper for all of us so we all get something? Does anyone else do this? Do people wrap the things ( is that a silly question?)
I do stockings for everyone and at 21 & 17 they take some creative filling now the chaps have outgrown top trumps & bubblegum packs

Am going to put my thinking cap on - I think over the last 20 years we've seen all the movies although you'd be hard to beat the Santa Claus - even at 42 it's the most magical film you ever saw. I love watching their faces when they see it for the first time - utterly priceless.

BTW years ago, I copied the card from the Santa Clause movie, I put it on a disc ( yup that long ago!) and took it to the printers & they made me 20 of them. I left one under the tree amongst the prezzies Even though my eldest was 13 at the time and thought he had it all worked it it stumped him and made the magic last that little bit longer...the cards were identical. I caught them rewinding the video watching it over & over to check it :rotfl:
Dont you just love making magic!!!!

wotnext

Am going to make these for the first time this year. Will do them for my four children and I want to include:

PJs
Christmas DVD/book
Snowman Poo
Reindeer Food
Biscuits
Knitted Christmas toy
Christmas pictures (to colour)

Can't wait to start all the preparations! :rotfl:

Money_maker

Did my first one last year thanks to this thread and it went down well. Mine are 14, 13 and 2 1/2. I did fleeces for the older ones, pyjamas for all, nibbles etc. Will try to be more creative this year by sneaking back every so often to steal ideas!

Have picked up the cheapie Logo board game from the grabbit thread which is for ages 12 to adult so my older ones can have that in their hamper. Will have to think on the rest although the little one should be quite easy.