Small Christmas Gift Ideas

RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By (Guest Post) (12/14/2007) u could maybe.... say if it was a boy maybe like go buy like a little bouncy ball and put it in a box with some cooking. I did it with my ten year old bro. He loved it last year. Girls.. um.. i'm not really sure but u could maybe buy some clips or if they have a mobile buy a mobile holder. Easy as! Thanks 4 ur time! Later! RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Michele (Guest Post) (12/08/2007) One year I bought scratch off tickets and attached a card that said- Just wanted to you to know I feel "lucky" to have you in my life. Merry Christmas- tied it to the ticket with a christmas ribbon. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By puppyluv (Guest Post) (12/08/2007) i love all of these ideas, but my favorite was One year I bought Jiffy brownie mixes, they were under .50 and put them in a decorated bag, tied curly ribbon around the top and used my scrapbooking supplies to make little cards that I attached that said "Poinsettias are red, Christmas is sweet, I'm stressed out. Make your own darn treat." I handed them out to neighbor and coworkers, everyone loved them. by frogluver Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Rebekah (Guest Post) (11/27/2007) Having six brothers and being the only girl it is hard to figure out what to make them. So my mom suggested counter cross stitch book marks. They are really easy and you can find patterns free on the internet. They take about two hours each. People just love them and it nearly costs you a dime. I am 13. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Kristina (Guest Post) (11/18/2007) I'm going to put my favorite holiday recipes in a mini photo album to give to my extended family. The photo albums can be purchased at the dollar store and the recipes printed on the computer. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Kay (Guest Post) (11/15/2007) What I've done a couple of times and really love is you go to a dollar store and buy 3-10 full sized chocolate bars and make something up to go with the name of each chocolate bar to compliment the person. It's worked really well in the past. Or you can buy the chocolate and make a story using the names. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post by imaqt1962 (738) | (11/09/2007) Profile | Contact kathy I like your basket what all did you put in it and about what was the total spent I am on a very limited budget this year and want to be frugal as possible without it looking frugal RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Kathy Rollwage (Guest Post) (11/08/2007) I have a gift basket business and I love to find bargains at Tuesday Morning, Dollar Tree, Ross, Michael's and more and then customize a gift basket for a lucky recipient. I just did 4 matching baskets for breast cancer patients at a local church in DFW area of Texas. Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By julia (Guest Post) (12/14/2006) I know craft stores like Michael's sometimes have chinese food take-out boxes in winter themed patterns, they are really cute, and you can fill them with home made cookies or fill them with tinsel and use them to hold a small gift or an ornament, RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Erin (Guest Post) (12/10/2006) A great idea hit me while i was scrolling through everyone's posts. I'm going to pick up several inexpensive plastic coin purses from the dollar store, and decorate them with old magazine clippings. I have PILES of old magazines that aren't getting used any longer! I work in the music industry, so I will cut out names & pictures of bands, etc. and glue them on the coin purse. (Obviously you could do this with any old magazine, depending on what the person you're giving the purse to likes.) Then I will finish it with a thin layer of clear glue across the pictures so that they won't easily peel. Haven't decided what to do for men yet. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Sweetie (Guest Post) (12/07/2006) Love the idea i have my classmates and i dnno what to get them RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By angelica (Guest Post) (12/04/2006) Hey. I made this for my little neices and they love em and it's really easy and cheap. you can buy the empty glass ornaments that opens up, at the craft store. and then just fill them in with little things like candy and chocolate. and if your ornament is big enough you can buy little toys and jewelry. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post by Persnickety Paula (381) | (11/20/2006) Profile | Contact Thank you, IMAQT1962! I knew I saw it somewhere before, just couldn't remember quite where! RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By IMAQT1962. (Guest Post) (11/20/2006) PERSNICKITY PAULA... THAT IDEA WAS ACTUALLY POSTED ON THRIFTYFUN AWHILE BACK RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post by Persnickety Paula (381) | (11/20/2006) Profile | Contact I don't remember where I saw this idea, but I thought it was cute. Take a wire kitchen whisk, put Hersey Kisses inside the whisk, tie a bunch of curling ribbon to the top, and a little note: We whisk you a Merry Christmas! (or you could say We whisk you a Merry Kiss-mas!) RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post by imaqt1962 (738) | (11/20/2006) Profile | Contact FROGLUVER, I LOVE YOUR LITTLE SAYING RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By frogluver (Guest Post) (11/19/2006) One year I bought Jiffy brownie mixes, they were under .50 and put them in a decorated bag, tied curly ribbon around the top and used my scrapbooking supplies to make little cards that I attached that said "Poinsettias are red, Christmas is sweet, I'm stressed out. Make your own darn treat." I handed them out to neighbor and coworkers, everyone loved them. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post by fishingal (9) | (11/12/2006) Profile | Contact I also like to make christmas ornaments--i get the old-fashioned clothespins, not the spring-loaded kind, but the ones that look like 2 little legs. You can buy them in a bag in the craft department at Wal-mart. You'll need 2 clothespins for each ornament, brown, black, and red acrylic paint, and wiggly eyes. You will also need gold elastic thread to use for hangers. I have my husband drill small holes through the one of the clothespin legs through the "sides". I paint the clothespins brown, allow to dry, and glue them at the round point where the "legs" of one are up and the other are down. The one with the holes drilled through should be on top and the legs should be pointed up. This will be your head. Glue on wiggly eyes, paint on a red nose, and a black smile, thread your thread through the holes and tie, and voila! you have a Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer ornament for the tree!!! RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post by fishingal (9) | (11/12/2006) Profile | Contact I also like to make christmas ornaments--i get the old-fashioned clothespins, not the spring-loaded kind, but the ones that look like 2 little legs. You can buy them in a bag in the craft department at Wal-mart. You'll need 2 clothespins for each ornament, brown, black, and red acrylic paint, and wiggly eyes. You will also need gold elastic thread to use for hangers. I have my husband drill small holes through the one of the clothespin legs through the "sides". I paint the clothespins brown, allow to dry, and glue them at the round point where the "legs" of one are up and the other are down. The one with the holes drilled through should be on top and the legs should be pointed up. This will be your head. Glue on wiggly eyes, paint on a red nose, and a black smile, thread your thread through the holes and tie, and voila! you have a Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer ornament for the tree!!! RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By yaneke davey. (Guest Post) (11/12/2006) this site has given me some great ideas to get creative before christmas. too much pressure is upon how much is spent and what people buy but i much prefer to use more of my time to make that something extra special that has taken some of your time effort and care for that person RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Tasha Williams (Guest Post) (10/18/2006) I took old jam jars washed them out and put all the dry ingredients for hot chocolate layer by layer i even gave them a little twist by adding special ingridents to make them different. I bought cheap christmas muggs at the dollar tree. I also included biscottie and platic white chocolate covered spoons. i am 15 RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Jennifer from michigan (Guest Post) (09/30/2006) 1. Baked goods, wrapped in boxes or decorated bags (usually buy bags for $2 for 50 bags) 2. Ornaments- glass ornaments filled with potpourri 3. Family picture 4. Coupon book- works with kids too for example day at the park, picnic, zoo trip, museum visit, science center exploration. decorate the "coupon" with the theme of the coupon these idea's are all lower cost things. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Becky (Guest Post) (12/13/2005) My grandma used to take her old costume jewelry (necklaces, earings, broaches, etc.) and take them apart and pin them onto the satin balls. She added ribbon and even a doll from the shoulders up, which sounds really odd, but looked really great! She died before I was born and they are still around. My mom even gave me some for my tree after I got married and moved out on my own. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By tanya (Guest Post) (12/09/2005) hi i just made gum drop tree ornaments. take a styrofoam ball and use a hot glue gun, then take mini gum drops and glue them on add a ribbon on top so you can hang on christmas tree. very cute and look great also very cheap idea make a set of six and put in box wrapped up. a great homemade idea that can be used each year . RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By WALTON0903 (Guest Post) (10/31/2005) Hi, I just happened to run across this forum, and was delighted to find some cute ideas. I really like the hershey bar idea. That would be perfect for business gifts, etc....or to have on hand in case someone you weren't expecting gets you something small. My idea is making little figurines. I use Sculpey and make little Christmas guys, and it is SOOO much fun to do. In fact, since I started giving them out as presents, I have had some of the people ask me if they can buy them to give as gifts!! Anyway, you don't have to be extremely artistic...and it is from the heart anytime something is homemade. Another idea is making fleece blankets...you can usually make a 2 yard double thickness one for about $8.00, if you check for sales on fleece. Also Fimo and Sculpey go on sale a lot for $1.00 bar....Or you can always check my favorite place for lots...Ebay!! Good luck! RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Tim (Guest Post) (02/05/2005) I give all of my friends gift boxes. Last year I bought the decorated fold up boxes (10 for $3) and some tissue paper. I ordered 2 year planners & a note pad from Oriental Trading Company for 50 and 10 cents each and inserted a $5 gift certificate to a local theater. I also included a couple bads of microwave popcorn, a box of Cracker Jacks, goldfish crackers, and about $1 worth of candy (minature snickers, m&m's, etc). I always try to keep the gift under $10. This year it came out to be about $8 per person. (I also give this to my friends children). RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Misty (Guest Post) (12/20/2004) I am working 2 full time jobs and have absolutely no time, so this is what I did this year... (someone I work with saw this at a craft sale---I would only do this for people who really know you and won't be offended with such a simple thing) I gave a big Hershey's chocolate bar with a note on it that said... A night or two ago, we thought we'd make a treat. For all our special friends, a christmas treat to eat. Our intentions were top notch, but our schedules wouldn't budge- Hence, here's this years edition of homemade Christmas fudge!!! (a poem to the tune of jingle bells). Anyway, simple and inexpensive-but everyone thought it was a really cute idea! RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Sofia (Guest Post) (12/19/2004) I bought a cheap pack of martini glasses and you can put homemade candies or any little treat in there. To make it personal you can get some coasters and on the back write your message; then they will recieve " a cup and a coaster" this cute for around new years eve. To top it off, attach the coaster with curling string, volia an elegant yet inexpensive holiday present! free chrismas gift Post By ikle (Guest Post) (12/04/2004) thanks, RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post by Princess Frogee (67) | (11/27/2004) Contact My mother and her sisters used to make each others gifts for each other at Christmas time. One year my aunt made our family Christmas ornaments. She took styrofoam balls and cut them in half. She put glue on the back of the ball half and wrapped a pretty silky material around the back (rounded side) of the ball and brought the edges around to the front (flat side) of the ball. The edges were glued in place. SHe then took pretty hat pins and placed glass beads on the pin then stuck the pins into the rounded side of the ball. She did this all over in various designs. On the front of the half ball she had placed a photo of each of us and glued it to cover the edges of the material that had overlapped. SHe then used rick-rack to glue around the top edge of the picture to make a border. She bougth those small screw eye-hole screws to place on the top of the ornament and then used elastic as the ornament hanger. My ornament even had a tassle placed on the bottom of it. THis is still one of my most treasured ornaments and I place it on my tree every year! RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Superb (Guest Post) (11/24/2004) You could make little baskets out of newspaper or just regular paper, design it, and just put candy (or odds and ends) in it. Sometimes, schools have cut outs (dye cuts?) I think they're called of different shapes and they may even have one of a basket you can fold together. You could just go the old fashioned way and do a family picture, personalize it with a poem you wrote of the person (Sue, S=sweet, U=unbelievable, E=exceptional) RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Superb (Guest Post) (11/24/2004) You could make little baskets out of newspaper or just regular paper, design it, and just put candy (or odds and ends) in it. Sometimes, schools have cut outs (dye cuts?) I think they're called of different shapes and they may even have one of a basket you can fold together. You could just go the old fashioned way and do a family picture, personalize it with a poem you wrote of the person (Sue, S=sweet, U=unbelievable, E=exceptional) RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Becca (Guest Post) (11/12/2004) One year, I found these inexpensive wine glasses (probably from Dollar Store or Shopper's Choice) and bought some glossy paint in small bottles. I painted these glasses in gold, silver, green, and red colors in all different patterns and such. Then I bought some cheap votive candles at Wal*Mart and used the glasses as candleholders. It was really fun to make and the glasses were really unique! By the way, I'm 15. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By marcy (Guest Post) (11/10/2004) we took glass ball and painted each of our family members name on the ball u can use color or clear one but the color one are nicer. and they all just love them. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post by wandat (4) | (11/08/2004) Contact I have a LARGE family. I usually visit Dollar stores (where everything's a dollar). A lot of the items these stores have are very nice. Last year I got some potpourri and square candle holders (I was able to get 3 for a dollar). I filled the holders with the potpourri and covered it with plastic wrap. For men I usually buy some screw drivers, and hammers (for some reason they can't ever remember where they put them last, best if it's a bright color!!). For the younger kids I'd buy a few (2 or more) items and put them into a box (if not breakable the bigger the box the better). Such as activity books, pens, figurines, memo pads, ect I also sometimes get candy canes that has candy in them, but (I'm big on a kid not having too much candy) I will only leave about half of the candy in them and add some cars for the boys and nail polish for the girls. For teens it's a bit harder, and luckily I haven't had that problem. I usually have a friend go with me (whom happens to be 17). She's usually really good at finding something everyone will like if I'm not sure what to get. I go a bit out on a limb for her at Christmas, LOL, It's only fair. I have found most teen girls enjoy bath beads and salts, and cubes; also lotions. Most teen boys enjoy anything that they can take apart later on (Ive only had to buy for one teen boy, so far, so Im not much help there). Some places it's hard to find a true Dollar store, some are more like a 5 and Dime, but they all seam to be cheap and have many wonderful items that (unless the person goes to them also) most people wont even know the difference. (The only place I found that wasnt a true Dollar store the most I paid was $2.25 for something.) RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By kay (Guest Post) (11/08/2004) I am on a small income and like to give Chrismas presents for my family so what I do is go to Wal-mart and buy the little cross stich ornaments. You can easily learn how to cross stich by following the direction, they turn out really cute and are about 1.00 so they are cheap also, and it is a gift they can use next year for the tree. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post By Teresa Shearer (Guest Post) (11/08/2004) You can buy the Satin Christmas Balls in bulk and also several different kinds and colors of sequins. Using straight pins, pin the sequins onto the balls. Each one will be unique with different sequins and designs. I also use ribbon on mine too and usually buy the thin ribbon. The best thing to do is to buy this stuff AFTER the holidays when it marked down to 75% off. RE: Small Christmas Gift Ideas Post by valleyrimgirl (440) | (11/08/2004) Contact How about making Christmas tree ornaments? Last year I went to a craft store and bought glass balls that had a cap and hanger on the top of them. I bought some acrylic paints in the little bottles also. First you rinse out the balls with a solution of 1 part vinegar to 3 parts water and let dry. Then you pour a little paint down the inside of the ball and twirl the ball to get the paint to run around the ball. Add another color and do again. I liked using about 3 colors, one of which was a gold or silver (it adds sparkle to the ball). Don't add too much paint or twirl too much, your colors will run together. When the inside is covered, place the ball upside down on a styrofoam cup so all extra paint can drip out. Let it stay there for up to a week, to dry. Put your cap and hanger back on and add a gold or silver ribbon to the top. This Christmas ball ornament turns out to be very pretty and each one is unique. It costs about 50 cents to $1 for the ball and on top of that is the paint...depending how many colors of paint you need to buy. My daughter gave one each to the family she babysat for and each person in our extended family received one also last Christmas. Everyone loved them. We brought enough along for the number of people we were giving one to and let them choose the ball ornament they liked and wanted.