frugal tip roundup: 9 christmas gifts to buy or make for kids

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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.

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Crystal & Co. November 21, 2013 at 12:30 am

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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Barb November 21, 2013 at 5:59 am: 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.

Chrissy November 22, 2013 at 11:07 am

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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Barb November 24, 2013 at 10:30 am: I love knitting, especially socks. It’s such a portable craft, too.

Gemma Stines November 25, 2013 at 6:06 am

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!

Barb November 25, 2013 at 6:52 am: 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

Emma March 5, 2014 at 4:38 pm