Even though we didn’t make a lot of gifts when I was growing up, to me Christmas has always included homemade gifts. As my kids have grown, I like to make them a new pair of homemade knitted socks each year. Sometimes I’ll make something for their room like the initialed pillow I made for my daughter one year. One of my sister-in-laws makes a simple knotted fleece blanket for each new niece or nephew in the family.
I had so much fun pulling together these Christmas gift ideas for kids from past Fabulously Frugal linkies to help you get started with making gifts for your kids. The projects are simple to make, though the sandbox project is better suited as a weekend project.
- Felt Pizza from Raising Crops and Babies
- Felt Flower Book Hugger Bookmark from Organized 31
- Homemade Play Dough Recipe from Prudent Living on the Home Front
- Pocket Purses from Family Home and Life
- DIY Upcycled Picture Frames from The Vintage Mom
- Peanut Butter and Jelly Game from Family Home and Life
- How to Make Grippy Socks from Brown Thumb Mama
- Build a Better Sandbox from Family Home and Life
- DIY Hunger Games Shirt from Wilker Do’s
More Christmas Gift Ideas to Buy or Make for Kids
- More than 20 Gifts Made in An Afternoon
- Give the Gift of Experience for Christmas
- A Children’s Gift Guide
- More Children’s Gift Ideas
- Flea Marketing: Gifts for a Girl
- Alternatives to Mass Produced Toys
- Christmas Homemade: Personalized Pillow
- Treasure Boxes
Find more Frugal Tips for Christmas on my Budget Page and my Frugality and Personal Finance Pinterest Board.
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Teach Me Tuesday, The Mommy Club, Natural Living Monday, Chick and Crafty Party, Show Off Your Stuff, Living Big on Less Money, Inspire Me Monday, Motivate Me Monday, Thriving on Thursdays, Between Naps on the Porch, Penny Pinching Party
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I am so jealous that you can knit socks! What an awesome and intentional gift idea.
That felt pizza project looks like a gift idea my little Matthew would love to receive! Off to check these out.
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I loved making the felt food because the felt naturally didn’t fray. It was so easy to cut the pieces out and sew them together.
I would love to learn to knit! What a great skill to have! Thank you so much for sharing at our weekly Mommy Club Resources and Solutions linky party! I hope you continue to stop back each week!
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I love knitting, especially socks. It’s such a portable craft, too.
Barb, you are SO amazing! I love this list of lists. I was going to buy my kids a membership to an educational games website (like http://www.knowledgeadventure.com ) but it would definitely mean so much to them if I could put something under the tree. Especially something I took the time to make for them. They’re going to love me for this. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I’m off to go check out every one of those pages now!
Awe, I’m so glad I could help! I know my kids would love the educational games website membership, too; I hadn’t heard of knowledgeadventure.com
I found a lot of helpful tips on The Best Gift Advices – http://www.easygiftadvisor.com -
I can only recommend this page.
Very difficult and time-consuming task of selecting an appropriate gift.
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