101 & More Super Cheap Chirstmas Gift Ideas

Don't have a lot of money, but still want to give?
It really is the thought that counts.
Here is over a hundred inexpensive gift ideas.
Several involve service.
Even more involve activities that will help bring families together.

1. Four, a dice game using one die, one pen, and paper.
2. Can of Dates
3. FHE Jar
4. Cookies on pretty plate (from $1 Tree maybe)
5. Dry Erase Board (for FHE assignments, shopping list, or whatever)
6. Pine Cone Ornament Family
7. Family Calender
8. Minute 2 Win It Game Kit
9. Framed Family Picture (print picture off computer and use $3 Walmart frame)
10. Rice Hand Warmers
11. Neck Rice Warmer
12. Framed Proclamation to the World or The Living Christ (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint Publications)
13. Movie Kit (popcorn, Kool-Aid, candy, Nativity movie or other inexpensive movie).
14. Deck of cards with instruction for some of your favorite games from the internet.
15. FHE Kit (get ideas from Friend Magazine, other church sources and the internet).
16. Gumball Machine with M&Ms (gumball machine from $1 Tree).
17. Coloring Book and Crayons
18. Mentos Rocket
19. Washcloth Candle
20. Homemade Gourmet Popcorn. Scroll to the bottom of that link, lots of yummy popcorn recipes. I love the Peppermint Bark flavor.
21. Homemade Coco Mix and Marshmallows
22. Warm Bread
23. Journal (Notebook with cover)
24. Recipe Notebook (decorate a photo album and include some of your favorite recipes).
25. Stuff toys (only a dollar at $1 Tree - I really should ask them to sponsor this site).
26. Homemade Memory Game
27. Snow Painting Kit (Squirt bottles - nice ones under $1 at Home Depot in Cleaning row, and bathtub color tablets or food coloring, then they can make pretty pictures in snow. If no snow, give a cheap white sheet.)
28. Muffins
29. Bead Stars
30. Rock Group (paint a rock for each member of family - kids will have fun playing with them).
31. Tickets to Music Concert, then on night of show invite the family to concert location (probably your home), serve dinner then lip sing to music from their favorite group. Dress the part and let kids use spoons or shampo bottles as microphones. I know it sounds cheesy but it really can be alot of fun. When our family did it were were Peter, Paula, and Mary. I don't know who had more fun, us or the family we did it for.
32. Flag Football (let everyone unwrap a scrap of material the get to use as their flag and then say what they are for).
33. Capture the Flag (give every family a flag to decorate). Flag materials can be as inexpensive as you let them be.
34. Geoboard (board with nails and rubber bands to make shapes).
35. Art Kit (Glitter glue, paper, sticker, etc., take advantage of Dollar stores and such.)
36. Marble Magnets
37. Family or Nativity Candle
38. Girls Burrets
39. Crunchy Ball
40. First Aid Kit (can make it as cheap or as expensive as you want.)
41. Books (Take advantage of thrift shops, a used book is just as much fun to read as a new book).
42.Games. (Take advantage of thrift shops, a used book is just as much fun to read as a new book).
43. Carmel Apples (apples $2, carmel $2.50, chocolate $2.50, crushed Oreos $3, makes at least 5 apples so $2 each, sorry, forgot wooden scewers.)
44. Homemade Cereal Trail Mix and Family Hike Map
45. Jigglers ( let the kids cut out the shapes).
46. Survival Kits
47. Homemade Tamales
48. Frosties Mix
49. Bag of ballons (the possibilities are endless).
50. Flower Bulbs
51. Candy Cane Reindeer
52. Homemade Frosty's Mix
52. Homemade Tamales
53. Bag of Balloons (the possibilities are endless).
54. Flower Bulb in Dirt (plan it to where it blooms just in time for the holidays).
55. Car Garage Kit (2 cereal boxes, tp roles or paper cups, tape).
56. A Box (endless possibilities, a castle, a rocket, a car, just spend time making it with the kids, they'll love it.)
57. Pillow Case (just make one and put their name on it, then let them decorate).
58. Chalk and a sidewalk.
59. Homemade jewelry.
60. Fruit Loop necklace.
61. PVC pipe and marshmallows. PVC pipe makes great blow gun for marshmallows. Let the battle begin.
62. Homemade Syrup and Pancakes
63. Homemade Play Dough or Slime
64. Glow Sticks (Multi-packs at $1 Tree)
65. Balloon Animals (Kits available at $1 Tree)
66. Offer to do a single women's nails
67. Offer to cut single guy's hair
68. Puzzle & Christmas Music CD ($2 total if you get both from my favorite store.)
69. Put together book of 20 fun family activities.
70. Friendship bracelets.
71. Bean bags for juggling or tossing.
72. 3 Free Movie rentals from your collection.
73. Tablecloth then decorate with kids hand prints (honestly not sure price of table cloth, but get creative and you'll make it work.
74. Duct Tape
75. What's Your Talent? Use it. If good at singing sing a song to them, if welding weld something, if writing, write a poem, if math offer to do their taxes. Be creative, there are so many options.
76. Free home wind cleaning.
77. Free bathtub cleaning. (Someone once actually did this for me right after I had a baby, I thought it was weird but it was so WONDERFUL!)
78. Just give paper and origami instructions.
79. Just give paper and paper airplane instructions, and then see which will fly the farthest.
80. Get ideas from craft fairs (Just ideas, generally they can be pricey.)
81. Take advantage of black Friday sales, go for the doorbusters (DVDs under $2, shop the sale.
82. Do not under estimate the thrift shop finds.
83. Put together a list of possible camping spots and details in local area for them to use this summer. Likewise if the family likes hikes, print of hike ideas, if they like recipes print off recipes, or crafts or whatever do like wise. Putting them in a $1 photo album or and folder for binding will work perfectly.
84. Crossword or Suduko Book
85. Homemade Bowling
86. Personalized Soap Bottle
87. Treasure Hunt Map leading to a prize of some sort.
88. Endroll of newspaper often less then a $1 from the newspaper and a thing of crayons, markers, or paints. Could even trace out kids and make life size puppets. Just staple together front and back and stuff with more newsprint paper.
89. Family Testimonies with hand print and picture with each.
90. Ornament with kids pic on it (million ways to do this including a Popsicle stick frame).
91. Journal with cover and flower pen.
92. Homemade Cereal Trail Mix with near by family hike idea.
93. Collage of special photos
94. Sock Puppets
95. 8 Minute Cake Kit, that website also has Milky Way Cake in a Mug and only a minute and a half cook time.
96. Offer to take Family Pictures for them.
97. Offer to babysit so couple can go on date.
98. Offer to clean their house.
99. Coupon Book of Service
100. Offer to help them with Yard Work
101. Offer another service such as helping with a big project they have coming up.
102. Candy Card
104. Rice Balloons
What are some ideas you have?