Children also enjoy it,to give gifts to their loved ones. However, of course they can't buy big gifts yet and they shouldn't and don't have to. Homemade ones are much better anyway because there is so much love in such gifts. Help your crafters make small gifts themselves and make grandma, grandpa, dad or mom and their siblings happy. We will give you a few ideas and instructions on how to make small Christmas presents yourself with children.
Practical and decorative at the same time – pot coasters will appeal to both mom andas well as grandmaand aunt are happy. For our idea, you use simple felt pompoms that you arrange in a square or round shape. You can use any colors for this - colorful or neutral ones for the whole year or typical Christmas colors if you would rather make a really Christmas gift. This is how you can make the felt coasters yourself as small Christmas presents with children:
Cut out the desired shape from felt and glue the balls onto it with hot glue, which the children can of course do. However, the balls will not be fixed sufficiently firmly and will fall off sooner or later. That's why you can also sew them in place with a needle and thread. That's not a big deal, soalso sewing beginnersand even older children can do it.
Salt and pepper shakers
Dad loves his breakfast egg salted or even peppered? Then such salt shakers are ideal! You can buy new ones as well as spice up old ones by simply cleaning them, letting them dry well and then designing them with figures. Simply glue the figures, such as Christmas trees (you can also make them out of dish brushes), deer and reindeer or snowmen and Santa Claus, to the bottom of the shaker with hot glue. This will probably be easier for little children's hands than it is for yours.
If you make salt shakers yourself as small Christmas presents with children, you should also clean the figures well beforehand. Another variant would be to put the salt shaker insmall snow globesor to transform trailers. To do this, simply fill them with a little artificial snow instead of salt or pepper. You can also thread string through the holes in the lid for hanging.
Make small Christmas presents yourself with children - crispy houses as pendants
Such amulti-colored crispy housewill look very pretty on the Christmas tree, as well as a window pendant or on the doorknob of a closet door. All you need is glue, popsicle sticks, brown paint to paint, and any other decorations like beads, string, glitter, leather, or fabricsweets. Then you can make the little houses yourself as little Christmas presents with your children.
In the instructions above you can see how to glue the stems together to create the shape of a house. You have to shorten some of the stems beforehand. Then you can paint the house with paints. TheWatercolor effectIn this case it looks very nice or you can dilute acrylic paint with a little water. But opaque colors are of course also permitted.
At the top of the roof, on the back, glue a loop for hanging and then the children can decorate the crispy houses as they wish. A great idea would also be to use leather or fabric to make a hinged door with a photo behind it. Feel free to write down the year on the back of the pendant so that the recipient always knows when they received the gift.
Decorate pots and fill them with sweets
Everyone in the family has their favorite treat! Fill a clay flower pot with them and let the children put the clay pots infunny Christmas characterstransform – how about Rudolph, a Christmas elf or Santa Claus? Can you think of a better packaging for candy?
The materials you will need will depend on what character you want to create. For example, would you like to make snowmen yourself as small Christmas presents?crafting with children, you need white acrylic paint, while for the elf or Santa you need skin color. Otherwise you will need wiggly eyes and felt material for the other elements.
Rudolph gets a red pom-pom for a nose and antlers made from pipe cleaners, Santa has a beard and hair with faux fur, while you paint the snowman's mouth with black acrylic paint.
Of course, you can also come up with other elements and materials to design the pots. Our ideas serve as suggestions only. You can then use the finished and filled pots with a simple,Pack in transparent foil. This way the gift remains visible.
It's easy for parents and grandparents to make beautiful Christmas presents that come from the heart
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