Christmas Gift Ideas

• Have volunteer trees springing up in your yard? Pot up and give saplings (You can start them in the spring for bigger trees or dig up larger saplings in the fall.)
• Give a bath salt soak made with Epsom salts and essential oil along with a "recipe" of how to make it.
• Have kids memorize poem or song for parent
• Give a photo calender and fill in with birthdays & personal messages such as: today is the first day of spring, make dinner reservations your anniversary is tomorrow, the pool opens in a month do sit ups
• Babysitting "vouchers" for friends
• Make a homemade castle out of a fridge box (My parents did something similar to this when I was a kid and it was one of my favorite gifts of all time!)
• If you're giving a large or really exciting gift, tie a long string to the gift and hide it. On the other end of the string, leave a note instructing the recipient to follow the string to find the gift. The excitement builds as they follow the string from room to room or even outside! This is another one of my most memorable gifts- our uncle did this with a trampoline, hidden behind the garage!