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

thevicster

Name of present: Edible Art Set
Do you make it or buy it? Buy the ingredients then make the set up
Total Cost: £3 - £5
Details: Fill a shoebox/compartment box/other small box with some sheets of wafer/rice paper, a couple of cheap paintbrushes, some writing icing or icing sugar, food colouring, small sweets (mini bags of haribo starmix are 8p in Asda), smarties, and anything that would make a pretty picture. Attach a sign to the front of the box and hey, you never know you might get an edible thank you card in return! Yum!!

ih8stress

ih8stress wrote: »

Festive Fivers Competition:

Having submitted 2 entries (so far) I now find that the competition was for 2007. As some people had made recent entries I thought it was for THIS year?

Can anyone from MSE confirm what the position is exactly please as I am now confused!

Thanks

Does anyone know if the competition is running again this year? I'm sure there are a few of us who would welcome the chance of winning some money and getting some fresh pressie ideas.

greenpixey

ih8stress wrote: »

Does anyone know if the competition is running again this year? I'm sure there are a few of us who would welcome the chance of winning some money and getting some fresh pressie ideas.

If you look on previous page you'll see that "Mysisterlola" bumped this thread from last year to give people an idea what to buy or make.
The competition is no longer running.

Emily_Hall08

Pandora123 wrote: »

• Name of present? Paper models
  
• Do you make it or buy it? A bit of both
  
• Total Cost? Around £2
  
• Details (the more the better)

Paper Toys has free patterns for making models of landmarks such as:

Taj Mahal

Angkor Wat

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre


They also have a good selection of models for cars, including:

Ferrari Testarosa

Dale Earnhardt NASCAR #3
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Chrysler PT Cruiser


Print the models out, then enlarge them onto cardstock (10p per sheet). Buy a nice set of Artist coloured pencils in a tin for £1.49.

A great present for children (or adults who are still big kids).

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I'd like to make the globe http://papertoys.com/globe.htm
to give to a friend who loves the place, but the instructions appear to be just the one little picture, is this really going to be simple?

Lizbeth

I know the competition's finished but I thought I'd share this one...

Name of present: Poo in a box
Do you make it or buy it? Buy it from Natural History Museum website
Total Cost: £5 + p&p
Details: Odourless poo in a box with seed to grow xmas tree (raindeer poo), banana plant (rhino poo) or rose (elephant poo)
http://www.nhmshop.co.uk/gifts-for-him/reindeer-poo-in-a-box/product.html

Emily_Hall08

Lizbeth wrote: »

I know the competition's finished but I thought I'd share this one...

Name of present: Poo in a box
Do you make it or buy it? Buy it from Natural History Museum website
Total Cost: £5 + p&p
Details: Odourless poo in a box with seed to grow xmas tree (raindeer poo), banana plant (rhino poo) or rose (elephant poo)
http://www.nhmshop.co.uk/gifts-for-him/reindeer-poo-in-a-box/product.html

That's quite tempting, though still more than I wanna spend

almar_2

This thread should keep going it's very helpfull.
I am chuffed to bits to have found this xmas present for a younger person.

Name of present: Paint your own piggy bank (a plain piggy in a box with coloured paint pots & brush)
Do you make it or buy it? Buy it From Wilkinsons.
Total Cost: £3.50 + £1 coin to put inside £4.50
Details: Wilkinsons Stores.

Blackspaniel_2

Make it
Approx £ 2 plus patience
Give a child , young person a card inviting them to your house at an arranged time and day ( with thier parents agreement) and let them bake. This could be butterfly buns, muffins, gingerbread men.etc. Or for the older ones eclairs, fruit flan , or maybe ginger snaps. Make sure you have all the ingreadiants and equipment plus nice apron. The child can then take home their efforts, and Mum has no cleaning up to do

redwellies37

Name of present? Easy to make lip balm
Do you make it or buy it? Buy then make
Total Cost? Less than £5

The quickest and cheapest way of making your own lip balm is to warm up some vaseline until is soft and malleable (you can do this by leaving the pot on top of a warm radiator) and then mixing in some other products to make it either taste nicer or have a bit of colour. To make it taste nicer, add a small amount of hot chocolate powder to some hot water then add a few drops at a time to the melted vaseline and mix together to get the required flavour. Leave to cool. This can be done with any powdered drink.
To add some colour, melt down a cheap lipstick (again by leaving it on a warm radiator) and then mix it with the vaseline and leave to cool and set.
Tins for putting this in are easy and cheap to come by in pound shops or empty make up containers e.g. eye shadow containers.

RachelD

• Name of present? Glass nail files

• Do you make it or buy it? Buy
  
• Total Cost? Around a fiver for 3
  
• Details
  

You can buy glass nail files from some shops and specialist sites dealing with nail care but they are very expensive.

Last year I sourced some on EBay , where the seller was doing packs of 3 coloured nail files each in a plastic sleeve for about £4.50. He did a presentation box for a more expensive set of nail files with crystals. I asked if he would give me a price for 3 ordinary coloured files in a box. I bought abut 15 boxes for under a fiver each and he provided whatever colour I wanted. They were marvellous and everyone loved them. I gave them to the girls in the office and it was my most successful prezzie ever.

Glass nail files are gentler on your nails than metal and you can sterilise them.

I can't remember who my supplier was but if you key 'Glass nail file' into Ebay you will find lots and maybe one who will box them as nicely as my guy did.