Kids make art - it starts with homemade Christmas presents

Christmas is there for the children - the children know this and deal with the desired selection of gifts carefully long before the Advent season.

This preoccupation with your own wishes is a bit different depending on the type: Sometimes it is planned almost accounting, with lists in which information is neatly entered for adults, so that at Christmas the cult sneaker is not in the wrong color or from the wrong company under the gift table.

Small chaots manufacture several wish lists, and the parents are often easily panicked for help with the search for the last wish list, or you have to listen to the fact that desired lists will soon replace desired slips 7, because on the wish lists a lot is no longer true.

The dreamy good faith delights their parents with long stories in which excursions with the new mountain bike are described, together with their parents, of course, with a good child and in perfect harmony.

The little tactics sometimes do that too, but their stories are garnished with a wealth of references how important it is if a drinking bottle from the company X is also "delivered" to the mountain bike, and a hoodation from the fashion brand Y, and if it has to be a helmet, but then only that from company z ...

What usually comes up with the kids a little too late are their own gifts. Children want to give, they enjoy it, and the little tactics also know very well that only they will be given plenty of the next Christmas, which is also a little exhausted.

If the first perplexed questions come, what should only be given to Omi and Opi for God's sake, the hour has come to a skillful adult: If you now have the right program at hand, you can keep your children away from computers or game console for a long time and instead stimulate it to creative activity.

A little hidden pressure can be helpful, e.g. B. the hint that Grandma will definitely be happy about this or that perfume, but then the pocket money was gone for an felt eternity.

Older kids should now receive a few good suggestions, for tinkering things that really go through as full gifts that is no longer done with a picture crawled, these children already feel. These children can even make real trend gifts if they put them on the right idea.

Here are a few suggestions:

01 laying of a lotus candle

Lotus candles are among the gifts that are in great demand. Lotus candles are the candles that turn out like a kind of flower when they are burned down. This then results in a miraculous development, never for predictable, but always extremely attractive.

The professionally manufactured lotus candles are poured in one piece, but a flower shape can also be deliberately designed, namely with a candle that bears a coat of several wax layers. And you can make such a candles yourself with your children, you only have to pour wax residues on a marble board into a blossom -shaped panel and then put these panels one after the other in a throatable, shaped condition around a thick stump candle. At the top the panels are bent like petals on the outside, liquid wax can be poured for fastening between the layers.

Self -designed candles are very nice gifts for quite a few people, namely for all the people who actually don't need anything - a candle is not a gift for eternity, but consumes it. And candles don't always have to be cast, it is much more creative to model candles, and the results that come out of here are often really unique.

To do this, your children need so-called kneading and cutting wax that is sold in handicrafts. This kneading wax has a very low melting point and can be kneaded or rolled out if it is only easier to heat and then cut into applications.

So your children can either knead (hopefully really crazy) figure candles, this is the variant for all gift recipients with humor and good sense of creativity, or finished candles with self-designed applications (the kneading wax is already liable on a slightly preheated candle). This can be letters or other decorations, ornaments and ornamental lines, that is the variant for the grandma, which does not have so much in mind with craziness.

02 Designed photo book

The self -designed gift can also be a photo book, in the design of which a teenager can live out his entire imagination (and perhaps also gets to know an area of computer graphic that is more important than the latest game).

If a child shows interest in photography and has its own pictures on the computer/cell phone that it can use, this is of course ideal. If not, or if the image selection is not sufficient, you may be able to help out: Really funny photo books for grandparents can be created from photos that document any family reunion or trips together.

Such a photo book is then given a lot of comments that make the grandparents laugh - you will also learn better than from every postcard how the vacation really was and feel involved.

03 photo calendar

The photo calendar combines your own design and use value as a gift . The photo calendar is a good solution for all kids that do not find enough photos to put together a photo book.

And it can also be made shortly before Christmas. There is nothing more than a wealth of ideas and a photo shop.

The preparation of the required photo series could then also be extremely fun: the 15-year-old Melanie spends an afternoon in front of the Mirrors with a girlfriend, a bunch of make-up and the photo shop, with the result that Omi finally has enough photos of her granddaughter-every month in a different style and with a different face.

Girls also like to play the cladding artist, then the grandparents see their granddaughter as an angel in the nightgown in the photo calendar, as a sex bomb in the disco outfit, as a tough business woman in the straight business outfit and as a bump in last year in last year. Son Leon, 14 years old, does a cross -country tour by bike with his buddy Jannick and snap a lot of photos for the calendar on which he is really nicely smeared.

The photo calendar can of course also be equipped with a series of photos that absorbs the interests of the grandparents, e.g. B. Photos of various theater performances, from a photo database on the Internet that contains free photos. Or a walk along the sights of the hometown, or a city that has been planning the grandparents for a long time.

Or the kids simply take pictures of something beautiful, e.g. B. a whole range of flower heads in the next flower shop, which the shop owner allows you to be in a friendly way. This series of flower photos is then placed against a background with the help of a computer program and possibly an adult who can operate it. The background fits exactly with the colors in the grandparents' apartment.

Other ideas for decorative or amiable serial photos: various wine bottles, in front of a colorful foil from behind with light, tree tops from below, in the back light, a number of strangers who were asked to wire in the camera in a friendly manner and like to do that.

It is not uncommon for gifts from an astonishing artistic value, it is also very personal Christmas presents that the recipients are really happy about, and the kids also had fun making.