35 Easy Christmas Gifts Kids Can Make for Parents (Homemade Ideas for Mom & Dad)

I absolutely love this idea for a parent gift! Those sweet silhouettes ...cue the tears.

Nothing cuter than those little thumbprints! This also can be modified for an older child, too! I personally love to hang them from my rearview mirror!

Kids will have so much fun creating this - and it's a legit piece of art at the end!

This is a fun and festive keepsake parents will love to receive and display!

You can never go wrong with a homemade food gift! A healthy treat for Mom and Dad with a sweet thank you!

These adorable snowmen pots are such a fun idea for Mom and Dad!

This idea is perfect for a simple Christmas gifts kids can make! Adorable cookie cutter stampled Christmas tea towels are perfect.

These easy cookie cutter bird feeders perform double-duty- food for the birds and gift for Mom and Dad.

Salt dough ornaments is a sweet way to create homemade keepsakes that capture the little years. 

Simple kids craft to create a Snowman themed gift tin. Parents will love having this little guy around all winter!

These are so fun to make and smell amazing! (They are #16 on the list!)

I love, love, love making these mugs! This post shows 5 different ways to make them! This particular technique is simple for kids!

I absolutely love this craft and use it all the time! It's inexpensive with a Dollar Tree tray, and the paper on the bottom can be customized for Mom or Dad, depending on the paper! For an extra sweet gift, fill with a few treats!

This is super easy craft ... this one is designed for a baseball lover, but using any scrapbook paper you like, you can use this for pens, pencils, markers, make-up brushes, even small tools and charging wires!

Make these shrink film keepsake keychains with your students using Shrinky-Dink paper! These fun names will preserve how they wrote their name when they were first learning! We share how on Simply Kinder.

Oh my goodness, I couldn't love this more! What a fun, FUN idea!!! Parents will ADORE this!

Fun craft that can be given as a gift! This is so cute and the stamp on it is so trendy! A GREAT gift using popsicle sticks. Practical, too!

This is a fun idea for Dad for or for Mom, too! You can add any text you like with letter stickers, and any type of embellishment. However, a witty play-on-words is always my favorite!

Another practical gift for a male or female! There are limitless options for what you spell out here, and it's an easy craft for kids of all ages!

Kids will really enjoy making these candles with their own artwork. The technique is easy - using tissue paper, wax paper and a hairdryer! But what a fun, personalized gift to give!

Embroidery hoop decor is on trend for modern farmhouse style, but I love this kid version of it! What a clever way to display a child's artwork and a really unique way to give it as a gift!

If your child likes to play with PlayDough or modeling clay, this is a project that he or she will really love to create. Many ways to personalize this as well!

What a FUN idea! Sharpies, rubbing alcohol, and tiles... love it!

Tea towels are such a great gift to give! Decorated with your child's art or whatever message you want to write, it's something that will bring a smile to the lucky person who gets it!

Rock painting is such a popular activity for kids! Creating a picture holder with painted rocks finds a useful way to use all of those creations! This is also great as a paperweight!

Here's another option for both a glass magnet, kid art and fingerprints! Look at all the fun creations you can make with little thumbs and fingers! Just love this!

If you love to collect vintage jars or bottles, your kids can decorate them with paint pens for gifts! Perfect to fill with all kinds of goodies!

This is a fun gift for someone who works at a desk or in an office - or really, just has any kind of space for notes! Have the kids decorate the sides of these note cubes as a sweet reminder.

If you want to showcase your children's art or give it as a keepsake, a tea towel is a great idea. It's an adorable reminder of your child that will mean so much!

If Mom and Dad love books, a box like this would be so appreciated! Made with spines of old books, it's a truly unique gift. And, you can fill it with all kinds of goodies, too!

This super-cute project is made from scrap wood or even your child's own wooden blocks! This is perfect for a gift with a special picture!

If you can't choose just one, this idea doesn't make you! Sweet faces on every side.

I love this idea for a tray! A sweet reminder every time it's used.

This super-cute craft used the child's hand and arm as the trunk! You can use fabric or paper for the leaves - especially fun to add family names to the leaves, too!

What a sweet idea! You can use the family surname here - easy to make with broken crayons or buttons!