Looking for affordable Christmas crafts to make as gifts that a 5 and 9 year old can do?

I've written a hub on kids gift ideas you can check out, but some other ideas are to have kids handprint an apron or bag or pot holders with green/red paint and turn these into reindeer, santas, cardinals, angels. There are ideas out there if you look for them. Feet can be turned into snowment and you can make a really cute door mat if you get carpet scraps.

I'm not sure whether it would be classed as a craft or not, but maybe you could supervise them whilst they made and decorated some peppermint creams or coconut ice and put them into little individual truffle papers, they could also decorate the bags or little boxes to put them in. The shouldn't cost much either.

Thanks for the ideas! I think we are going to trying putting thumb prints on some glass ornaments I already have then making them into snowmen and reindeer. I have to mail everything, so I want to avoid food.

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