White Elephant Gift Ideas for Family Reunions

The great thing about a white elephant gift event is that your options are endless. There are so many great white elephant gift ideas that can be used. Our family has a family reunion every year and we use the white elephant "sale" to raise money to fund our next event. The "white elephant" sale is the most humorous part of our gathering. Below are some fun and inexpensive white elephant gift ideas.

5. A family scrap book- A plain scrapbook can be purchased for about 15-20 dollars. A fun twist on this book is to start one page about your family and then pass it on. Each year the book can be added to by different families. Then it becomes something sentimental and fun. It is also a great way to learn about distant relatives that you don't really know very well.

4. Quilt Patches- Creating a family quilt can be very rewarding. Each member can contribute a patch and then attach it to their own and continue to pass the pieces on every year. Quilt patches are a great white elephant gift because they can be individualized and they are very inexpensive to put together. You can use scanned photos, mermoribilia, and much more to create your unique patch. Include a note so people will know what you are trying to accomplish with the piece.

3. Oversized boxes full of toilet paper- This is a hilarious white elephant gift idea. If the box is wrapped just right you will see the bids go up and up. Who would expect to get a box of toilet paper as a white elephant gift? Our family almost always wraps some sort of prank item for some unexpecting family member to open.

2. Pictures- Capture someone at your next reunion doing something funny or unexpected. Do not tell them you are taking the picture. Be sneaky and then blow it up for the next year's reunion. You can even alter the image or create a funny newspaper with a large headline on it with a funny caption. Just try to keep it clean so no one will be offended. This is a creative and inexpensive gift. It is sure to be a big hit.

1. A white elephant statue- What makes a better white elephant gift idea than an actual white elephant statue? This has also become a fun tradition at our family reunion. We pass the same elephant on every year. It has become our Pulitzer prize of the family reunion. Each owner is instilled with the prize under the condition that they must protect it and pass it on for the next year.