presents from dc to grandparents

[ApuskiDusky]

DS is 15 months, I need to find presents from him to his grandparents. Sister in law already gives a calendar with grandchildren's photos on, so I'm a little reluctant to go down the 'turn a photo into a product' route. What presents do your dcs give to their grandparents when they're too young to choose for themselves?

Nothing . Their names get added onto our gift labels. We have divorced parents so 8 gparents. Would cost us a bomb....then there are the 7 aunties and uncles.....

We did wrap a photo up for them the year we had Tempest do a good shot of them, but they would have had that anyway...it just happened to coincide with Christmas.

Ha, that looks rude. It was meant as a thinking hmm not a rolling eyes emoticon...

If it was up to me, I probably wouldn't bother at his age when it's obviously not from him, but the precedent has been set by siblings...

i would say until they are old enough to have pocket money with which to buy presents, then children should give presents they made. this could range from a picture painted/drawn recently (handprints/footprints?) which you could frame, or some sort of christmas craft thing you can do with him. i've given biscuits decorated by my dd (ie make up some runny icing and let them loose then they can sprinkle over hundreds and thousands and put on smarties.) which i put in gift boxes/cake tins. in my experience the oldies love this sort of thing especially as the kids get old enough to talk to the grandparents about how they did it.

The footprints on a coaster/plate/mug thing.

Or a picture in a frame. Grandparents can never have too many photos IME

Last year when DS was 18 months he made foam snowmen which involved scribbling and sticking. This Christmas he has decorated plain white mugs with porcelain paints - some with handprints, some just artistic scribbles - fired in the oven. Look fab

Weegle love the mug idea. Did you buy it in a set or separates?

When dd was v small we just added her name to ours. When she got to about 2 she made things/painted pictures. When she started school we added school photo to dd's home made presents. Now she's getting a relatively decent amount of pocket money - £4 a week - she's started buying things; she's already got MIL and mum's presents and is looking out for uncles' presents (but will prob make them). I know she's bought mine and dh's 'cos she carefully didn't show them to me yesterday .

Ds and i did a canvas for my mum last year for her birthday. Circle in the middle with his foot prints round it making a flower. Mum loved it.
As im short this year ds has got a family gift for my parents and brothers (all in same house)
Going to be nice and send a recent photo of him in christmas card to xp, and paternal grandparents and auntie and uncle. Not doing Great aunties and uncles as will cost a fortune. (xp and I agreed he'd buy his side and id get mine as it was costing me far too much to do both)

last year I made some fridge magnets with boy ( then 19m)- I cut up chistmasy pics from catologues and mags, he stuck them onto small bits of card, I covered them with sticky back plastic and glued a magnet on the back. We made them on a couple of afternoons when he was a bit off colour and wanted to do sticking and calm stuff.
For other celebrations he has given GPS pictures and collages he has created.

Our DD's don't buy presents for thier grandparents. Their names are just put on the family one.