Gifts kids can make for a children’s gift-making workshopThere are many gifts kids can make (our favorites below), but creating them from within a bustling children’s gift-making workshop brings on a very satisfying feeling.(Along with our gifts that kids can make below, check out our affiliate 101 Easy Craft Project Ideas. This resource is full of gift-quality crafts that aren't too difficult.) 
Maybe it’s partly because of the sense of magic it brings from growing up in a society with legends of elves’ toy workshops, or that our ancestors once worked cooperatively in village workshops. But it’s just a great fun interactive children’s group event that can be set up near winter holidays, Mothers’ and Fathers’ Days, or even as a kids’ party, camp or retreat project.I facilitated a full Saturday afternoon children’s gift-making workshop at an elementary school for about 20 children who signed up and paid for the class. But the “workshop feeling” can be created with just a handful of neighborhood or homeschool kids, or even a small group of siblings. I chose a collection of gifts kids can make both on their own and cooperatively with others (see below). This allowed children to experience both being an individual within a shared interest group, as well as being a valuable contributor to an important single unified group goal. As the unifying group project for our workshop, kids mixed four large batches of play-dough in four different colors, then formed a human assembly line to measure out and fill plastic re-sealable containers and put four containers in attractive boxes as the finished gift, each taking one home. After cleaning up, they then broke off and rotated around the room to make a variety of individual gifts. Gifts kids can make as a group unitWhen kids make gifts as a unit, they can either make one large gift (such as the quilt below), or make multiple gifts as a unit, as with the workshop described above where the whole group made enough play-dough gifts to each have one to give away.
Kids’ quilting bee You can get a kids’ quilt-making kit divided into 24 canvas squares kids can decorate with fabric paint or markers from Oriental Trading Company. Kids then tie their decorated squares together with provided ribbon using pre-cut holes. For fewer children, each can decorate more than one, or just leave some squares white and layout an every-other pattern, which makes a very attractive quilt. Another neat quilting project from HearthSong is a 24-piece quilt also with fabric patches that can be pieced and laced together without sewing. For kids aged 10 through teen, they offer a tie-dyed quilt kit with far more pre-dyed pieces kids lay out in pretty patterns then actually sew with a simple stitch. Finally, for kids six and older, they offer a kids’ quilting kit with brightly colored fringed squares. Kids tie the fringe together to create the quilt. More gifts kids can make as a group assembling project: 
Gifts kids can make as individualsTons of gifts kids can make at your public library Go to the children’s non-fiction section of your library and find the craft and science areas. You’ll find inspiring books with easy visual instructions for gifts kids can make that actually look quite impressive. Items to hand decorate Kids can hand decorate blank pre-made backpacks, travel mugs, totes, baseball caps, pinwheels, and even umbrellas and other items from Oriental Trading Company if it works for you to buy at low cost in quantities, often by the dozen. Gifts kids can make as a longer term project  Custom Search Return from Gifts Kids Can Make Workshop to Great Group Activities Home |
Kids experience and nurture their ability to persevere, delay gratification and see connections when gift-making is a long term project. 
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