Children Love To Give (Unusual Gift Ideas)

Member Name: carolinesite

Product:	Unusual Gift Ideas
Date:	17/11/00 (179 review reads)
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Advantages: Very cheap to make and the kids love to give presents (as well as receive them)

Disadvantages: If you don't have ladies in the family then this is no good to you

I have already written an opinion under the home-made category and unfortunately cannot find a way to add another gift idea so I have decided to put it here instead.

Well, it will be unusual when it is finished!

Children love to give and are very eager and proud when they can make something for themselves.

When my oldest children were younger they made these for Mum, Grans and Aunts and were very proud to give them. They were also received with gratitude and meant more to the receivers as they were made with thought and effort by the child.

Save all the empty coffee and jam jars. Peel off the labels and wash them thoroughly. Most labels come off very easy with normal soapy water.

Now they need to decorate these jars. Saving Christmas cards from the year before can work out cheap. Cut out the little cute bears, Santa's and baubles and glue to the jars.
Alternatively, they can draw and colour their own Christmas pictures or put glue on the jars and roll in some coloured glitter.

Now what are they going to be filled with?
Bath crystals!
Places like Superdrug do quite large bags of coloured bath crystals and very cheap too.
They brought 3 different coloured bags and first poured one colour into each jar filling it by about a third.
Then pour another colour on top and then the last colour on top of that filling the jar completely.

So now you have a coloured effect like those little jars you buy from gift shops with coloured layered sand.

All that needs to be done now is the lid.

You can either decorate the lid the same as the jar or cut out a circle of Christmas paper that is slightly bigger than the lid and fold it over the lid tying it with a piece of coloured string into a bow.

I for one prefer a shower but when I do decide on a bath I do prefer crystals rather than oils and bubble bath.

The jars cost nothing.
Decoration costs nothing if
they use last years cards or draw their own.

The only layout is a glue stick and the crystals. About 99p - £1.99 a bag.
If you have the jars then you could make at least 8 gifts.

Glitter, foil string and wrapping paper are optional but are bound to be amongst your Christmas items anyway.

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