Easy Christmas Gifts to Make
Make One-of-a-Kind, Inexpensive Gifts for Christmas
Compiled from popular crafting and cooking Web sites, these thrifty gift ideas are sure to please this Christmas.
Gifts kids can make
Kids can create original, fun gifts for their grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends while having a blast.
Family Fun magazine provides more than a decade of crafting and gift ideas for children at its Web site. Easy and popular ideas include handprint coasters and printed memo blocks.
Kids can also craft gifts for each other. Suite 101.com’s kids crafts site features a super recipe for homemade no tears bubble bath. Gingerbread and chocolate playdough recipes add fun scents to your little one’s sculptures.
At craftster.org, the forum for hip crafters, you will find a host of simple and off-the-wall crafts to make, including marbled paper using shaving cream.
Gifts from the kitchen
Better Homes and Gardens offers some tasty and unique ideas for homemade food gifts. Who wouldn’t love to receive hazelnut-mocha sauce, bourbon-infused honey, papaya-rum chutney, or snazzy red pepper spread?
Homemaking diva Martha Stewart features a host of tasty quick breads perfect for gifting to teachers and neighbors. The yummy offerings include chocolate marble bread with ganache, carrot and dried-current muffins, and rosemary cornbread.
Gifts for the tree
The Home and Garden Television Web site lists a massive number of ornament projects, from homespun to glittery. Thread-wrapped photo stars recall the God’s eyes children make at summer camp. Grow a tree on your tree with a terrarium ornament!
The paper ornaments at Woman’s Day are simple and adorable.
Gifts for the yard
The folks at the Garden Junk forum at GardenWeb.com can whip up a beautiful lawn ornament from any curbside throwaway. Go to the forum’s FAQ site and see what this group can do with bowling balls, old teacups and tin can lids. Then craft a one-of-a-kind piece for a lucky person on your Christmas list.
