Gifts for Parents

[georgie456]

For parents Christmas gifts, I always buy some plain white cake boxes from ebay and we fill them with pretty tissue paper, and put in lots of home made treats and biscuits made by the children.
The boxes arrive flat so the children can decorate them first. Last year they made coconut ice, truffles, chocolate shards, cookies and biscuits. They always go down well

[Dragonfly]

Thanks debbie26, same recipe as I done for christmas decorations they are brillant and smell lovely:

[gegele]

last year i done glitery bottle for younger ones, a hand prints on small canvas for all parents, 1 tree decoration, and put the lot in a shoes boxe decorated. they al loves it, this year i have wooden tree decoration to be painted with a picture of kid inside, smelly tree decoration, an other handprint canvas because they're cheap and great to check difference in kids, maybe a picture frame...

[miss mopple]

I've bought plain votive holders for them to decorate this year. The older ones can use glass paints and the littlies stickers and gems, and I'll pop a nice scented yankee candle in each. Have also got little wooden flower picture frames we may do

[fiona]

we have made salt dough tree decorations that we have sent to grandparents, and for parents i took all my little people to Potz and they painted a wall plate with hands and feet! one per family we also done calenders and cookies.

[sandy64]

hi some great ideas may have to try debbies recipe sounds cool and will also do the calender, i have 2, 3yr olds and a 18 mth old so will do lots of decorations ie tree, baubles stars and a card but think i will do pepper mint creams as there easy. last year i bought felt stockings from tesco for 30p each. got lo to decorate them and put some of there crafts in it and then put a lolly in with some sweets and any prizes they had won at our xmas party. any ideas for cards this year?? cant believe christmas is so close

[ZoeAlli]

I have 2 babies so can't really do much with them.....although any ideas are gratefully accepted!With my 4 year old we are going to be very busy making tree decorations and sweets as well as a candle holder. Bless her she comes in and says what am i making today![/QUOTE]

You could do handprints on canvas, like gegele has done.
Handprints on calendars for next year.
you could press their hands gently into bakeable dough with name & date on.
Have a look on DLTK, they have some nice ideas for lo's (you just may have to do a bit of putting together for the babies),
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/gifts.htm

[maisiemog]

We've already started as some of my mindees only come a couple of hrs a week. We've done handprints into clay....far cheaper than those sets you can buy! Also painted mugs at home....nice and cheap and they've LOVED them.

Next week we're doing salt dough decorations and christmas cards.

I think that the week before Christmas we will be making peppermint creams and biscuits.

Thankfully I think all the parents of my mindees would appreciate all the things we make. I hope so anyway! They've all worked really hard on them and put so much love into them!

[michellethegooner]

think we will be making these, thank u for sharing,

[It's a small world]

We are handprinting on tea towels....

Also doing lots of decorations for tree, snow globes and much more...hope mum has lots of room !!!

Older children made tile coasters with their own design..

[keeks]

Here is the idea

Thank you Debbie, that sounds lovely! If I get time I'll do them at nursery too.

xx

[Gizmo]

Last year I gave parents calendars with kiddies pics on, parents loved them we made salt dough decorations as well, have a wide age mix this year 10 mths - 10 years and I would like to get something to suit all

[SYLVIA]

we made calanders last year, each month was on a separate sheet that fitted in a cd case and had a piece of the child's art work on. And the year before that I made all the parents cry apparently as I gave them a portrait of their child drawn by my daughter.
This year we are make xmas wreaths

[hollyoaksmad]

Last year I gave parents calendars with kiddies pics on, parents loved them we made salt dough decorations as well, have a wide age mix this year 10 mths - 10 years and I would like to get something to suit all

where did you get the blank calenders from?xx

[teacake2]

I don't know what we are going to do yet, leaving it a bit late I know, but the problem is my little ones are just not interested in doing anything craft wise at all and it takes ages to even get them to do a picture so it will have to be something really easy, I like the idea of hand and foot prints in clay, they might agree to do this.
Teacake2

[It's a small world]

we did mugs last year and the parents loved them

just looking for something a bit different this year, and all my current parents are fab so i don't really mind

did you decorate them yourselves or go to a shop? What did you use to decorate?

[Chatterbox Childcare]

I've bought plain votive holders for them to decorate this year. The older ones can use glass paints and the littlies stickers and gems, and I'll pop a nice scented yankee candle in each. Have also got little wooden flower picture frames we may do

I did the candle decoration years ago and they looked fab, we made out own candles too with the older ones.

[shelly2012]

We will be making some sort of home baking

[theplayroom]

Here is the idea

no flour?....

[It's a small world]

I have small ones this year so we are making Cinnamon Dough Rings and then cookies on 23rd

These sound good. When would you make them ? week before Xmas ( I finish Friday before Xmas x)