To me, Christmas has always included homemade gifts. As my kids have grown from babies to older kids, 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.
Christmas Gifts to Make for Kids
I had so much fun pulling together these Christmas gift ideas for kids 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 | Anders Ruff
- Felt Flower Book Hugger Bookmark | Organized 31
- Homemade Play Dough Recipe | Prudent Living on the Home Front
- Pocket Purses | Family Home and Life
- DIY Upcycled Picture Frames | The Vintage Mom
- Peanut Butter and Jelly Game | Family Home and Life
- How to Make Grippy Socks | Brown Thumb Mama
- Build a Better Sandbox | Family Home and Life
- DIY Hunger Games Shirt | Wilker Do’s
Christmas Gifts to Buy for Kids
Sports Equipment and Classes
If a child on your list is into a more expensive sport like football or ballet, offering to pay for a class or buy a piece of equipment may be a huge help for the parents. Football equipment, for example, can cost a few hundred dollars. Ballet requires both special shoes and classes.
Books
Book choices can be targeted towards interests like dinosaurs, Legos or penguins. You could also give a copy of your favorite childhood book. Books are also available as MP3s for downloading onto iPods or burning onto CDs.
Experiences
Spending time with children is the absolutely best gift to give them. Yes, you can take them to alocal museum or some other fun place, or simply kick off your shoes, sit on the floor and read books. Or make your favorite dish. If you have a teen on your list, spending time with them in an activity that involves their hands is a wonderful way to give them time to open up their heart without the pressure of answering questions.
More Christmas Gift Ideas for Kids
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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.
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!
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.