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A Homemade Christmas Gift Idea

When I was ten, a homemade Christmas gift idea meant asking Grandma for fabric from her scrap bag, then making her a strange fringed apron from some clingy rayon and wrapping it up. Now I look for handmade Christmas gift ideas with a little more class! You will have fun with these gifts:

• This homemade Christmas gift idea is especially nice for an older person with many years of memories, but works also for young people. Make a christmas memory board or scrapbook. Start with a large poster or foam board or scrapbook. Fill with pictures from past christmas times, cutouts of ornaments or snowflakes, written memories and lists (guests, menus, gifts, etc.), scraps of wraping paper, newspaper headlines, and other Christmas mementos.
• Create a custom mixture CD or cassette of Christmas carols.
• Give some parents you know the gift of time for holiday preparations or fun. Offer to take their children to a free christmas performance or for a movie night at your home. If you are brave, you can help all the kids bake Christmas cookies.
• This is an especially nice handmade Christmas gift idea to send to someone who lives far away. Gather family or friends and make a video recording of you all acting out or reading aloud a classic Christmas story or singing Christmas carols. 

• Videotape an "interview" with a grandparent or elderly relative asking questions about memories of Christmas past. Give copies to all the grandchildren or younger relatives.
• Handpaint a tile, wooden sign or T-shirt with a funny or meaningful quote. You can find dozens of great quotes at the Inspirational Quotes Cafe .
• Put together a family Christmas cookbook (or cook-booklet!) with all your family's traditional recipes.
• Make a set of hand stamped Christmas cards or Christmas postcards. You can buy blank pre-stamped postcards at the post office and decorate one side.

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