Help! I need ideas for creative xmas prezzies!

[bourneville]

I have told all family & friends that I am not buying xmas presents this year as I have no money. So, dd and I are making them instead...
dd is nearly 2.4 so there is a limit to what she can do. I am totally stuck as for what to get my parents, it ought to be something a bit special.
So far, for my own grandad & aunt, we have painted in all different colours a big cut out I did of a cat, it looks really nice actually. My parents were well impressed with it so I wish I'd saved it for them!
And for all my friends & my sister, we have cut out the shape of dd's arm/hand and painted them, to make bookmarks. dyou think this would be appropriate for my boyf too, who hates clutter/junk? something for him would have to have a specific use I think, he isn't likely to put up pretty little kiddy arty stuff in his room! (I have actually bought him something else myself too).

I did buy 2 t shirts for my parents, I was going to do some of dd's handprints or footprints on them but a) discovered the finger paints wash out anyway b) dd decided she didn't like having her hands painted and c) I'm a bit paranoid about giving them the t shirts cos my mum is pretty big and i'm worried i got a t shirt that's too big . gone off the idea....

so, any ideas along those lines that grandparents would appreciate please??? i am at a loss.

Oh PS it was my mum's bday recently & we made a big birthday card of a collage of different painted shapes so it'd need to be something different from that ...

[UCM]

Those bits of card in the vest packs are good? I used to think I should save them and stick them to things with words on like table, television, chair when DS starts spelling. I never did though.

[newnamefornow]

Could you bake?

My ds (similar age) has made shortbread stars recently and they're very cheap. I've put some in pretty Christmas bags from Lakeland.

I'm planning to make truffles with him too.

[charlietherednosedpussy]

We are melting chooccy and putting it in pretty boxes after putting it in Xmas moulds.

[dingdongmeggymooonhigh]

What about making some bath salts. You could get a set of inexpensive nice glasses, fill them with the salts and then top with some lovely fabric(off cuts) hats and some rustic string (like jam) your DD could put her hand prints on the labels and then you could glue them on.

You could vary the essential oils in them for male/female??

[dingdongmeggymooonhigh]

Glass painting. Again using cheap glasses you could both personalise the glass according to the person??

[hullabaloo]

Ikea had gingerbread stars with a hole in the top - 6 I think for 40p. I'm putting gingham ribbon through them and letting my son ice them for his grandparents as a nice wee tree decoration. Also got him to draw his granny etc and then uploaded them to the t-shirt studio who will turn your pictures into mugs ( or lots of other things.) The mugs are about £8

[jinglinggoblin]

we are doing mugs. 6 plain mugs for £1 at wilko, have got some ceramic paints and the kids will paint them, then they go in the oven and set so they can be used. paints are about £3 each, i have one blue, one red and one yellow, plus a black which is like a felt tip for them to write and draw the outline with. they last ages, i suspect my parents will end up with an entire painted dinner set done over several years

other relatives are getting fudge, cinder toffee and either stollen or nigellas chocolate xmas cake made by us.

[jinglinggoblin]

nice decorations are biccies with hole cut out of middle and a boiled sweet meted into it so it makes a kind of coloured window. i think you just put the sweet in the hole when you bake the biscuits and it melts (might want to check that 1st tho)