home made stocking fillers for the snowed in....

[hatwoman]

Any ideas for small presents (for 7 and 9 year old dds) that could be cobbled together from stuff lying around the house lovingly crafted in the next couple of days without venturing to the shops (apart from the village Spar) I am thinking of a little box with ingredients and instructions for biscuit making...but my creativity stops there...a guess I could find a tangerine or two.

a few sweets, some crepe paper to make chains with, pencils, mini craft kits, if you have stuff in the house- a few stickers, glitter glue, piece of card

got any chocolate to make truffles?

got any cloves to go with the clementines (can make pomander balls)?

do you sew or knit?

got any scrapbook papers? you can make nice notebooks with those and some plain paper, for their first diaries or journals.

can you print photographs? can make some ornaments with those or make picture frames for their rooms.

yes.....photos have potential...they adore looking at old ones of themselves...could definitely do a collage or similar - thanks for that (only problem is they know FC couldn;t have done that...but let's not worry about such details!)

I also own a laminator - just a small A5 one so perhaps could do something with that...

got a few sweets but I guess we could get a chocolate orange from the spar (we always had them as kids...and I adored them...will have to hide them from myself)

Will they have chocolate coins in your local Spar shop? Our DCs always find them in their stockings.

How about a favourite magazine or puzzle book?

Or cheap & cheerful "selection box", lollipops etc?

For Sinterklaas Feest (dutch celebration at beginning december) we give chocolate letters (using the initial of the recipient). You could do gingerbread cookies in the shape of their initials? Even if you don't have letter cut-outs you could fashion them yourself and bake.

Do you have any fabric, sequins, ribbons etc?

You could make a decorated fabric bookmark, purse, sunglasses case or bag.

Or do you have a neighbour in a similar situation?

If so you could find and swap bits and pieces that your DCs don't use or play with (creative re-gifting!)

well, my evening's work has produced them a little (very little) individualised cook book each - their favourite recipes, some pictures and a picture of them as toddlers cooking/eating. each page to be laminated then tied together with ribbon. dated Christmas 2009. I'm really rather please with them! not sure I'm going to get to any sewing...

Hatwoman - that sounds lovely, much nicer than bought presents IMHO.

I think DDs will love them