homemade presents for grandparents

boredjellybean

please help !!!

we are totally broke this year & both our sets of parents are telling us they don't want anything but that doesn't sit well with me, does anyone have any ideas of things we could make with the children to give? their ages are 11,nearly 9 & nearly 3

thanks you

tanith

How about some homemade christmas type cookies/ or fudge , wrap it up prettily in cellophane and ribbon... the kids would enjoy it too..

Possession

How about a photo of the children too?

LEJC

Grandparents in my experience adore anything made by their grandchildren and usually if its edible then thats a bonus too...

Fairy cakes are brilliant or muffins which you can bake and put in a nice tin or as others have siad biscuits....

If the children are a little more adventurous you could try a cristmas cake, with fruit marzipan and icing

Take the idea of the photo a little stage further and you could perhaps take a few snaps of the children making the cakes to go with the present...just as a twist on the normal type of school photos grandparents usually get...

qwiksave

My boys (similar age to yours) made a free gift for their grandparents last Christmas and they absolutely LOVED it!

It's a gift in a jar that they draw a picture of the grandparent on


(Each child did one for their nanny and one for their grandad)

And then you print out - or write out some questions that they each answer in their own personal way:



(The answers often are funny, make sure they aren't rude though!)

Just put all the slips in the jar, some nice ribbon round the jar and there you have it.

HTH

You can see my blog post about it here

dizzytina

i agree with LEJC about Grandparents appreciating gifts made. If you want some idea's of really easy and cheap items to make have a peek at my homepage hun as most of the things i make are easy and cheap and personal. Also have a look on www.craftycrocodiles.co.uk they do really reasonable things like packs of A5 calendars with a space for your photo to be inserted (or get children to draw a family picture in the space). i think a pack of 5 or 10 is only 99p!.
xx

ginnyknit

Am loving the crafty crocodiles site, loads of very reasonable priced bits and bobs - thank you dizzytina :T

moments_of_sanity

Hi, we too are broke this year but my DD's who are 14 & 15 have made a cross stitch bookmark for their Grandparents. One has stitched Winnie the Pooh and the other has done a cute bear, cost me about £3.00 for both so very inexpesive and the Grandparents will love them

macma

Speaking as a grandparent (I was a child bride ) me and the OH love anything the kids have made themselves.Our granddaughter (now 10) has for the last few years sat with granddad and made my birthday cards I would now hate one from a shop from either of them.
Anything with a photo on gets the thumbs up in this house.
Often parents do the buying even the wrapping so the child doesn't really "give" anything so even in future when you're not hard up I bet they'd still love home-made

christie13

i have bought canvas pictures for DD to paint for each set of GP - from wilk0's and they were only a £1 each... i think there was four diff christmas scenes to choose from... i know GP will love them as they think my DD (age 3) is a genious so it will truley be a work of art and will have a prime hanging place each christmas :j

Willow_K

Depending on how skint:

Put together a photocalendar featuring the kids. Snapfish are half price until Sunday - we use them every year (if you have siblings with kids, include all the grandkids).

Find a largeish picture frame and get the kids to do handprints around this poem or similar:

"Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small,
And always leave my fingerprints
On furniture and walls.
But everyday I'm growing,
I'll be grown up someday,
And all these tiny handprints
Will simply fade away.
So here's a final handprint
Just so you can recall,
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small."

Other poem ideas here: http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/handprint_poems.htm

Get some air drying clay and make christmas decorations?

Keyrings, bookmarks etc are all easy and cheap to make.

HTH