24 Christmas Ideas: Recipes, Homemade Gifts & More
Looking for some frugal and fun holiday inspiration?! Check out some of our favorite holiday-themed posts – you’ll find free printables, crafts and recipes that are sure to bring plenty of holiday cheer. 🙂
Crafts
Christmas Ornament Wreath
Magic Reindeer Food (with Printable Labels)
Peppermint Lip Balm
Puzzle Piece Ornaments
Homemade Gingerbread Play Dough
Lemon Sugar Scrub
DIY Paper Poinsettia (Present Topper)
Homemade Stovetop Christmas Scent
Free Printables
Homemade Christmas Countdown
Magic Reindeer Food Craft with Labels
“We Wash You a Merry Christmas” (Soap Gift Label)
Official Santa Letterhead & Gift Tags
Recipes
Almond Roca (Easy Toffee Candy)
Cranberry Crumb Bars
Cream Cheese Squares
Sausage & Egg Breakfast Casserole
Red Velvet Box Cake Cookies
Grinch Fruit Kabobs
Hazelnut Spread Hot Chocolate
Hot Cocoa Decorated Cupcakes
Hot Spiced Wine
Bacon Jalapeno Cheese Ball
Parmesan Artichoke Dip
Pull Apart Pizza Bread
Cinnamon Apple Monkey Bread
Nutella Crescent Rolls
THank you so much for all of these!! I LOVE DIY stuff around the holidays. Can’t wait to give the reindeer food to my neice.
Cute ideas! Does anyone have any brilliant ideas on what to get a boss that makes enough money to buy whatever they want, and therefore, some little trinket or homemade gift is often overlooked?
Food is always a good idea I find when you don’t know what to get someone. Everyone loves food.
It’s really never about how much money someone has, a little ‘trinket’ that is meaningful would not get overlooked I’m sure. I bet you’ve received gifts from people (kids) that make less than you and you loved!
How about a funny poem with some of the key players in the office in it? You can do a “twas the night before Christmas” poem and throw employees in and what they do in rhyme…I’d like something like that to hang at work..
How about a homemade zombie apocalyps kit.
Good ideas ladies. Thanks.
How about a donation to a charity they support? It is thoughtful and they can not toss it aside.
Wonderful to see it all together..thanks!
Cream cheese squares.. omg! So yummy and easy! I am a horrible baker but even I can make it! 🙂
omgosh, I know!! they are to DIE for!!!
How do you make them?
Kara third recipe cream cheese squares 🙂
Those cream cheese squares are AMAZING!
I love all the ideas! I really love the stove top christmas scents. Last year I did the william & sonoma one for days in the slow cooker. My house smelled amazing!
Thank you for compiling these. I thought it was an e-book at first great job ladies!
I do the magic reindeer food that helps guide Santa’s sleigh to your house. I just used uncooked oatmeal and something fun like edible glitter or sprinkles. My son loves to sprinkle it over the front lawn and I’m sure the rabbits and birds like it too:)
Thanks! I’m making reindeer food again this year, but I’ll jazz it up with a jingle bell!
I made that Cranberry Crumb bar recipe and just an FYI, once chilled its as hard as a rock and impossible to cut. I recommend eating it warm or room temp cool and cut before the refrigerator. It was even a bit difficult to cut before putting in the refrigerator. It tastes great though!
Last year, we bought a house and after Christmas went to the stores and bought all our decorations for this year. I bought two of the 100 count ornaments at the Home Depot for $5 and turned them both into beautiful ornament wreaths this year. I can’t wait to have them for many years to come.
Awesome! Great deal
I been cleaning peeling pecans ! I need a recipe for a snack! Toasted pecans with chili powder help please! I had a masectomity 7 weeks ago and this is good therapy to get my arm and shoulder moving for swelling to down cracking pecans
Sorry a mastectomy ! Thank you for any recipes!
You can go on line or living social and by a star and put it in his name.. Name a star after him.. I’ve done that a lot for my friends and for a baby gift.. Very cool