Low Cost Christmas Gifts You Can Make at Home

As Christmas approaches, it is time to consider what you will give to your loved ones as gifts. For many gift givers, while the gifts must be meaningful, they also need to be inexpensive. Here is a list of low cost Christmas gifts you can give.

Baked Goods: Use your very best recipe to make cakes, cookies, or pies for your loved ones this Christmas. For those who are closest to you, you may even want to include a recipe card so they can try to re-create it themselves.

Scrap books: Scan pictures of you with your loved ones into your computer and create personalized scrap books. You can have these printed and bound for a reasonable fee, or if you have a high quality printer, you can print them at home and purchase a binder to house the scrapbook at the local office supply store.

Music CD: Make a CD of their favorite songs to play in their car. Download the songs on your computer and burn them to disc. If you make this gift for several people the cost will just be a couple of dollars each.

Ornaments: Personalized Christmas ornaments make great gifts and cost so little that you can give them to everyone on your christmas list. There are numersous options for making Christmas ornaments. Here are a few tutorials you can try.

How to Make Homemade Christmas Ornaments with Cinnamon and Applesauce

Turn Ball Christmas Ornaments into Posh Gifts, in 8 Easy Steps

Unique Homemade Christmas Ornaments

Coffee mugs: Pick up coffee mugs at the dollar store and fill it like you would fill a basket. Add candies, creamer, and a small trinket or two that the gift recipient will appreciate.

No sew hat and scarf: You don't have to be able to crochet or even sew to make a fleece hat and scarf. Give an easy to sew fleece scarf and hat set. Pick a pretty but non-seasonal pattern so that the recipient can wear your gift long after the holidays. You Tube also has a series of great tutorials for making a no-sew fleece scarf and hat set. A scarf is simple enough to cut from fleece and you can follow these tutorials to make the scarf.

Patternless Fleece Hat Tutorial

How to Make a Winter Hat from a Sweatshirt Sleeve

Bath salts: Mix up some home made scented bath salts and give them away in a pretty jars. Here are some great recipes you can use:

Easy Handmade DIY Bath Salts

Stress Relief Lilac Bath Salts

How to Make Soothing Almond Bath Salts!

Personalized Apron: You can make an Apron for her out of an old cotton dress. Use a standard apron as a pattern to cut out the apron from the old dress and then add lace trim. For an apron from him, get a standard apron from the craft store and some iron on letters to write his name or something clever.

As you can see, giving an inexpensive gift can take a bit of your time and effort, but it will save you a good amount of money. By making gifts, you will not only be saving money, but stress from fighting through the mall for that perfect gift.