The Incredible Kid Christmas
Gift Idea List

Take a look at this super list where you can find the best kid christmas gift idea. There are extra special store bought gifts, quick and cheap gifts, and even homemade gifts that cost nothing at all.

You know, if it wasn't for the kids, the celebration of Christmas might die out! In my family, it is the young and young-at-heart that help us tired old ones keep the traditions alive. As the holidays get closer, I start keeping my eyes open for a kid Christmas gift idea everywhere I go. One of my favorite times was when we found a really nice model horse at fall auction for only a couple dollars for our oldest son, Zeb. We wrapped it up and put it away in a safe place. When Christmas came we packed it in our luggage and brought it across the country to my grandparents' Christmas celebration. When he unwrapped it, he couldn't have been any happier! That's my idea of a perfect kid Christmas gift idea - It doesn't cost too much, encourages imaginative play, has nothing to do with fads, and the kids love it. Here are many ideas like that:

Store bought Kid Christmas Gift Ideas

Big beach towel and pool toys with winter swimming lessons at your local YMCA

Sand box or sand table

Indoor or outdoor basketball hoop

Explorer kit - pair of binoculars, orienteering compass, signal whistle, flashlight

New pillowcase with a fun design or cartoon character

Toy cash register

Ice skates or roller skates

Bike basket, lock, pump and helmet (especially great if someone else is getting them the bike or if you want to dress up an old bike)

A really nice rope (only for older kids who understand safety rules)

Outdoor game like tetherball or badminton

Ice cream maker

Set of strong magnets

Drawing book (I especially recommend Ed Emberly's books which have helped all my children immensely!)

Miniature Tea set

Rain boots

Set of fun and unusual rubber stamps and inkpad

Personalized lunchbox

Boomerang

Picture Bible

Tape recorder and cassettes

Sled

Nerf toys for indoor cold-day play

Wading pool

Hammock for storing stuffed animals

Bean-bag chair

Homemade Kid Christmas Gift Ideas

Duct tape wallet with some $$ or a gift certificate in it

Box of supplies for building a fort or playhouse - wood, pallets, sturdy cardboard, tools, rope, pulleys, shingles, tarp or canvas, small pieces of furniture, book with building plans and a letter promising your help

Bubble Kit - bubble solution, shallow dipping pan, wire or rope bubble blowing tools, tubes, straws

Soap Crayons

Nurse Kit - band-aids, candy pills, dropper bottles with colored liquid (tea or juice?), pad & pencil, gauze or pull stretch bandage, old digital thermometer

Car Games like travel bingo (rows of items to look for as you go down the road - hand drawn or on your computer)

Memory game made with photocopies of favorite images glued on sturdy colorful cards (cartoon character, jungle animals, horses, etc.)

End of roll of newsprint (free from newspaper co.) and sponges cut into shapes for making prints OR homemade fingerpaints

Secret Code Kit - include supplies for invisible ink and instructions off the web or copied from a spy book at the library

Snow paints - deeply colored water in spray bottles

Piggy bank

Old sheet made into a tent (to go over a table) with door, windows and decorations

Book on making puppets with a supply kit - small paper sacks, socks, googly eyes, yarn, scissors, regular and fabric markers, felt NOTE: You can print your own puppet making instructions off the internet to save money.

Art smock made out of an old shirt with pockets for supplies

New book covers for school books made out of fabric or fancy paper

Set of notecards made on your computer with a picture of the kid's pet on the front

Giant game of Pick-Up Sticks made out of painted sticks about 2-3 feet long

Tire swing

Set of colorful streamers - 18 inch dowel or stick with length of ribbon attached to one end

Faux Animal skin rug - fake fur from fabric store cut into shape of zebra skin, bear skin, lamb skin, etc.



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