If you are in the thick of holiday shopping and need ideas, I’m pulling up my gift guides from my archives in hopes they will be helpful to you.
Capability:Mom and I did two years of The 12 Days of Shopping which covered all our gift categories from kids making gifts to tutor gifts.
The 12 Days of Shopping
Saturday, December 1: Make Your Own Gifts with granola two ways. Hers and Mine.
Sunday, December 2: Kids Make Gifts Craft, Clove Fruit and Crafts.
Monday, December 3: Personalized Gifts, Hers and Mine.
Tuesday, December 4: Father-in-Law/Dad and Mother-in-Law/Mom
Wednesday, December 5: Tutors/Teachers
Thursday, December 6: High Tech/Low Tech
Friday, December 7: Hostess/Doing Good
Saturday, December 8: Sanitation Engineers, Mail Carriers, Hairdresser, Delivery People, Babysitter, Cleaning People, Dog Walker/Dog Trainer
Sunday, December 9: Husband, Me (Our Own List), CapabilityMom’s List
Monday, December 10: Cats/Dogs
Tuesday, December 11: Quick Gifts from Whole Foods and Gourmet Food Store
Wednesday, December 12: ’Cause I Am So Together, Last Minute Home Made Gifts, Homemade Ornament Crafts for Kids and Capability:Mom’s Homemade Gift
This was our first year of gift idea collaboration.
Dec 1: Make Your Own Gifts GRANOLA, Amazing Granola from Nigella Lawson versus Amazing Granola Bars from The Barefoot Contessa
Dec 2: Kids Make Gifts CRAFT (ModPodge versus Clove Fruit)
Dec 3: Personalized Gifts (Fancy Address Stampers versus Pretty Papers Giveaway)
Dec 4: Father-in-Law/Dad and Mother-in-Law/Mom
Dec 7: Hostess/Gifts That Give Back
Dec 8: Sanitation Engineers, Mail Carriers, Hairdresser, Delivery People, Babysitter, Cleaning People, Dog Walker/Dog Trainer, etc. (a.k.a. who else did I forget?) and Emily Post’s Etiquette on this subject.
Dec 9: Husband, Me (Our Own Wacko List); Capability:Mom Husband/Wife
Dec 11: Quick Gifts from Whole Foods versus Gourmet Food Store
Dec 12: ’Cause I Am So Together, Last Minute Home Made Gifts: Cookies & Personalized Holiday Tags
My Holiday Gift Guides are all here.
Popular ones include:
Gift Guide: Best Toys for Math and Science
Gift Guide: Best Toys for Arty Kids
Gift Guide: Toys to Get Kids Reading More
Top 10: Best Fun and Educational Board Games
Gift Guide: Musical Toys for Kids
Hope your shopping is going well! Happy holidays! What gift are you struggling with?
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My books:
Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Massachusetts Book Award Long List
- Selected as one of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023 by dPICTUS and featured at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair
- Starred review from School Library Journal
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award Long List
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
Amazon / Barefoot Books / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Amazon / Scholastic / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Great ideas, Mia–thanks for sharing them! My favorite to give is always homemade cookies in nice cookie tins.
Happy Holidays!
Hi Maria,
Homemade cookies are the best! I love receiving them as gifts but am tol lazy to make them!
Wow! This is an impressive collection of gift guides!
Thanks MaryAnne,
I didn’t create any new gift guides this year so this is just my list of gift guides (slightly updated) from past years.
I always love your gift guides- you give the best ideas. And thanks for the clove oranges reminder!
Thanks Jeanette,
The older I get, the less I want so I didn’t do any gift guides this year. Instead, I just put my old ones on one post with a few updates. As my kids get older, their lists get shorter and shorter as well (and weirder). PickyKidPix is totally into hair styling so her list is very specific to her and not to most kids her age. Grasshopper and Sensei’s is mostly Apple electronics or accessories. My son wants only Minecraft toys which barely even exist.
What about your kids? Do their wish lists get longer or shorter?
I loved our gift guide brain storming sessions! Agree, lists are more specific now – clothes, tech stuff, and love the arty kid guide 🙂
Hi Nancy,
We will have to come up with a different spin for gift guides next year! It was so fun creating them with you in years past. Maybe next year will be less hectic! (Famous last words!!!).