Home made Christmas presents - what shall I make?

[Miaou]

As we are on a very tight budget, for the last couple of years I have made all my Christmas presents (bar one or two). Last year I painted jam jars with glass paint designs and put a tealight in each one. The year before I bought a box of "church" candles and stencilled a design on each one.

The trouble is, I can't think what to do this year!
Each present needs to fulfill the following criteria:

• be suitable for a couple or single man or single woman
• be small/light enough to post (tho' I did jam jars last year and they all arrived without breakages)
• cost £1 - £2 per item

I do something different for the children (so any ideas for them would be appreciated too!)

Any ideas?

TIA
Miaou

How old are the children - could they do HAMA bead pictures for people (or would they eat them )

What about buying a bag of pebbles/stones from Homebase or B&Q and paint lovely pictures or initials with acryllic paints. Once you have finished, you can protect them with matt varnish.

The painted pebbles are lovely, have some my mum made, outside the conservatory in the rockery, lovely subtle colour when things start to die down in Autumn.I also have some in my larger indoor pot plants.

KatieMac - the three oldest make HAMA bead pictures but the youngest eats them!

I made a recipe book for my mum's 60th, I found 60 recipes I thought she'd like (from all my books, so some Nigella, some Elizabeth David etc), scanned them, added comments, added some photos of me/ds/dp with various food and bound it. Would that be any good for anyone? We've also made a family calendar for the past 3 years (I say we, I mean I choose some photos and dp does all the hard work of finding great coloured card and backgrounds etc) with family photos for each month - we try to put each person in their birth month.

ks, how do you make the dolls, they sound fab!!!
I love all this crafty stuff, but never really done much with paper mache.

I would go to the get £everything for a pound" shop for this!

Would love to hear from you ??