Festive Fivers Competition: The best Xmas pressies for under £5

Zith

• Name of present? Personalised Stockings
  
• Do you make it or buy it? A bit of both
• Total Cost? Not sure
• Details (the more the better)

I use some red felt and cut out two sock shapes and using a large needle and some natural coloured wool I blanket stitch the two together then using fabric pens write the persons name on the front. Really good for kids and adults.

• Name of present? Wooden toys/ decorations
• Do you make it or buy it? A bit of both
• Total Cost? From £0 - 5
• Details (the more the better)

Using a scroll saw use up spare pieces of wood to make toys and decorations then paint/ decorate and varnish them. You can get loads of free templates from magazines or make your own. Dead easy to do and fun too. Best to use left over skirting or pieces of a similar thikness. If for kids dont use MDF as the glue is poisonous if they chew on it. To make them more rustic you can shave the edges a bit or do distressed paint work. Brilliant for using up leftovers and putting feeling into the gift.

Greentoad49

All kinds of playing cards at £3.50 in Ebay Shop. Postage takes it slightly over £5 but good value.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Kildonan-Coll_PLAYING-CARDS_W0QQcolZ2QQdirZQ2d1QQfsubZ3QQftidZ2QQtZkm

TAMARIN_2

49p in Home and Bargain at the moment.

xx

alison6692 wrote: »

• Name of present?

Unazukin - Listening Doll

• Do you make it or buy it?

Buy it

• Total Cost?

£4.99

• Details (the more the better)

Hugely successful egg-shaped 'Listening Dolls', Unazukin have been dubbed the 'yes/no' dolls. They have been immensely popular in Japan with over a million sold in their launch year. Unazakin is your special friend who loves to listen to your stories and questions!

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

CLICK :T

angnnig

well the best one i can think of is something that might make more money .what else but a lottery ticket with 4x£1 lucky dips .you never now it could make them rich and if your lucky they might even treat you .lol.:T

Pandora123_2

• Name of present? Paper Animation Kit
  
• Do you make it or buy it? Buy it
  
• Total Cost? Free to £3.75
  
• Details (the more the better)

Flying Pig have some wonderful animated kits you assemble yourself, including Flying Pig, Ruminations, Ewe Boat and Paperoo. They are available either as downloads that you print out yourself (£2.50 to £2.95) or full kits that are precut and just need assembling (£3.75). They even have a free kit to download, Agreeable Sheep.

A really fun gift!

frannyscho

Make it - sort of
costs as much as the bar of choccy you choose, 79p for a dark fairly good one
and some cellophane wrapping with recycled ribbon or a saved box with tissue...something smart.

Take a bar of the best choccy you can buy. Melt it in a pan inside another with water in, lay out some clingfilm or foil onto a tray (that will fit in your fridge), and spoon large 4cm ish circles of melted choccy. About a dessert spoon will be right. Leave a little whip mark on each, like a flourish.

Almonds or other additions can be sprinkled on top depending on how flush you are, but plain look soooo fab.

Let these cool and handle them as little as possible with bare fingers as fingerprints show up. When they are cold, gather them into a standing circle or long length. Put them onto a circle or rectangle of cut out card as a base, inside a large cellophane wrap, (possibly alternating choccy types for effect) and tie with a big bow or raffia or something dramatic.

These make the most wonderful gift for any reason. Heart shapes are good too, but don't gather as well.

These cost an absolute bundle in Fortnum and Mason. As do marzipan fruits...another idea!

Pandora123_2

• Name of present? Locklite Mini Key Torch
  
• Do you make it or buy it? Buy it
  
• Total Cost? £4.99
  
• Details (the more the better)

A Locklite Mini Key Torch turns your house key into a torch. Fits over a standard round-headed key. Longlife Lithium batteries included.

frannyscho

I made these once when really broke.

Small basket hamper of similar colour ingredients.
Assemble it.
Variable cost - I did mine for under £2.50 each

You need to glean lots of those small bamboo baskets from old gifts, but a covered shoebox does as well.
I shredded coloured paper in green and red. Then bought utility goods in a certain colour.
One basket was green theme and the other red, and each had tea, olives, biccies etc... anything i could find that was nice, inexpensive and the right colour. They all nestled in the other colour shredded paper. I then covered it in clingfilm and wrapped it up.

They look mega fab.. try one.. you can be as cheap or expensive as you like, and they can be highly personal too.

The food was useful and the basket recycleable afterwards.... a very green (and red) prezzy. Loved by all that year because they knew I was broke.

queen_vi

name of persent box off luxury goodies(for friend age 70)
do you make it or buy it both
total cost£4.30
white box made of polystyerene filled with little bits of polystyerene
(box free came in post with sample from buzz)
shampoo and conditioner(pantene samples in mini tubes)
nivea(sample light feeling sun lotionmini bottle)
olay definity(free full size got from olay give away)
eau de parfum(lovely small bottle free sample)
fabulous nails(free sample cuticlepen plus nail growthmiricle)
tony and guy shampoo(went into boots this morning got shampoo and hairspray reduced £1.25 each used till voucher for £2.00 off cost 50p fullsize)
tony and guy hairspray.
nivea aroma shower gel(£1.00 poundland)
promise note to cut her lawn all summer(did it this year)
cottan buds(£1.00 poundland)
Flannel (50p savers)
box of tissue(box as picture of flowerson£1.00)
Promise note to take her shopping every week
small box teddy bear and everlasting rose(called forever rose 30p charity shop)

Rodoc

• Name of present? Oil/Vinegar Drizzler & Pasta Bowl
  
• Do you make it or buy it? Buy
  
• Total Cost? £1.99, currently reduced to 99p
• Details (the more the better) From Marks & Spencer. Good-sized round white bowl and square white bottle with cork and spout for drizzling oil/vinegar