Homemade Gifts Kids Can Make

What better way to teach children the true spirit of the holidays than by helping them to make homemade gifts for their friends and family?  This year families are searching for ways to make holiday traditions without all of the costly expenditures, and I have some of the cutest and most inexpensive ideas to make that happen.

There is an immeasurable value in doing arts and crafts with your children.  I hope that all of you parents and teachers will use the free holiday gift making instructions on the Crafters 4 Kids website to help children create gifts for their family and friends this year.

Here are just a few:
Holiday Pencil Toppers – Children can create pencil toppers with pipe cleaners.  This is a perfect gift for teachers, classmates, and school age siblings.


Holiday Notepad – Personalize a notepad with foam holiday decorations and give it to adult relatives.  It can be used as a phone message pad, a grocery list, or a place to jot notes.  Children can make an additional notepad for school and use it as an autograph book to remember their friends over Christmas break.


Jewelry – Foam is the perfect crafting material for children.  Children can cut foam into strips, add ribbon, and decorate for fun cuffs and bracelets. This craft requires limited supervision and children can really use their imagination with it.  They can make several different styles depending on the gift recipient.


Decorated Wooden Boxes – Use simple wooden boxes and decorate them with little miniatures tailored to the gift recipient.   Add a little gift or gift certificate inside of the box.


Holiday Coasters – This craft uses recycled lids from glass jars and foam and transforms them into something very useful like coasters.  Children will roll strips of foam and place them into the lid in a mosaic like pattern.  No two coasters will look exactly alike!
 

About the Author

Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com