Looking for some ideas...I've already done Gifts in a Jar and knitted scarves last year. Age range I'm looking at: two college students, a high schooler, and grandparents.
2006-11-13 10:15:09 · 9 answers · asked by Shovelbum 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Heres something that works for every age range:
Go to a 99 cent store and pick up small christmas themed tins or plastic gift bags
Bake some easy candy: fudge, peppermint bark, english toffee etc
Put the candy into the tins and pass them out. Its an easy gift that won't cost you more than 30 bucks total. A bonus is you'll get to eat some of the candy and have fun making it. Thats what I'm doing this year for my friends (all recent college grads)
Happy Holidays!
2006-11-13 10:24:00 · answer #1 · answered by lilgiggle33 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Homemade gifts I think are the greatest, because there made with time and love.
Maybe for the grandparents pictures of the grandchildren or family in a photo or got to a shop that can put the picture into a clock or put it into a frame and decorate it yourself with little keep sakes.
A highschooler that's much harder there much more picker. i'd go with a gift certificate. depending on boy or girl.. Girl maybe a homemade purse/male homemade leather wallet.
College students: that's even harder. I'd safe hat and scarfs. Depending on where they are going to school. How about and afgan for there beds or a quilt.
2006-11-13 10:25:33 · answer #2 · answered by dee luna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I make photo albums for my friends at Christmas. I buy cheap albums from the dollar store, some fabric, a cotton type sheet and some ribbon. cover the outside of the album with the cotton. I dont know what its called, but it just looks like a sheet of slightly thick cotton. almost anywhere with fabric will sell it...Walmart does anyways. glue the sheet to the front. cut a piece of farbic about an inch to an inch and a half larger then the album and use it to cover the front. glue it on the inside and fold the corners almost like you would if wrapping a gift. glue it down nice and tight. the cotton makes it feel puffy. take a piece of cardboard (cereal box works well) and cut it to fit the inside of the album...big enough to fit over where you glued the fabric down. cover it like you did the album then glue it in the inside to cover all the glue. then take the ribbon and cut it long enough to wrap around the album and tie in a bow at the opening to hold it shut. you can also buy little christmas things to decorate the front too. its really pretty. I also paint ornaments too.
2006-11-13 13:54:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jenn ♥Cadence Jade's mum♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am making stuff out of plastic canvas, Kleenex boxes, for my sisters, hmmmm 2 college students, a home cooked meal? I don't think much college students get good home cooked meals anymore,, think most of them eat on the go, fast food places.. or maybe fix up some baskets, with different kinds of inexpensive soaps,,perfume samples, chap stick,,
My sister-n-law gave us baskets one year she bought a few bars of soap and cut it into chunks, and got some ribbons,,and stuff and glued them on the baskets,
grandparents love stuff from grandkids,, get out the construction paper, let the kids make cards,,, get cheap bottle of paint , let kids make their handprints onto the construction paper, write a poem on it, about the handprints kids leave on their walls,and how they still love em anyway.
High school kids,,,you got a cd burner? burn a couple of cd's,there are so many options out there and every person is so different its hard to know what to get somebody or make somebody nowadays,
I say use your own best judgement and go with what you can afford/do or make,,afterall you know the people you are gonna give gifts to more then I do.
Good luck in whatever you decide to do this year and the years ahead and God bless you all.
2006-11-13 11:14:29 · answer #4 · answered by Ang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its the thought that counts with gift giving. I always try to get something that the person will use. College students may love stationary, CD-Rs, a yearly bus pass, etc. Make a a survival pack with lots of things that will come in handy. I always find that most highschoolers love to go shopping. Gift certificates for their favourite shops always go down well. I have found that Grandparents really love personal things that mean something to them. Special photographs, family gatherings, etc. I hope these ideas help.
2006-11-13 10:39:44 · answer #5 · answered by Jess 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What about candles for the college students, there are all kinds of candle making kits at Hobby Lobby and Michael's.
The grandparents maybe a collage of different pictures of yourself and other members of the family, and add pictures of all yall together.
2006-11-13 10:20:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think they would all like home baked cookies in a pretty christmas tin, and you can get the tins at the dollar shops
2006-11-13 11:01:42 · answer #7 · answered by Crystal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
friendship tea is always good...i gave my brother in law a
chili kit'...tomatoes, beans, chilies, spices...all packed into an inexpensive stock pot...
2006-11-13 10:29:51 · answer #8 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am pretty sure they would like home made triffle i know i do
2006-11-13 11:29:13 · answer #9 · answered by Mary Alice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋