Kids gifts to Grandparents

If you have a close bond, they'll know anyway.

I should add that everything I made for my own Mum, be it a card, something made in school, or a school cookery effort was put straight in the bin with a look of distaste. Just imagine how that made me feel. However, once I was earning money and bought cards for her she kept many of them. After she died I kept more things of my GMs than my mothers.

I don't keep bought cards, either. (Miserable old bag that I am!)
A couple of days on show, then away with them.

How fortunate you are. How I wish my two grandchildren would send a little drawing or even a birthday card. I haven't seen them for three years due to them living overseas and Covid lockdown. It’s been FaceTime which is nice but how nice to receive something they take time to make to give to you. You are an extremely lucky lady

I don’t think she is odd. Most art in primary schools is engineered by the teacher. I wonder how much is actually creative, rather than ‘cut out here, stick that there.’etc, They could practice drawing from objects in front of them instead , which would be a useful skill to acquire.
However, my grandchildren are never going to know how I feel about the sticky egg boxes offerings etc, as we make a huge fuss of all of their efforts.
I kept large A1 plastic folders and put everything in from my own children, and gave them to them when they had houses. I believe they promptly binned the stuff themselves.

I love everything my grandsons make for me. I waited a long time for them as my daughters didn't have them until they were older. My eldest grandson who is 10 lives in Australia with my daughter and son in law and i miss him desperately. He was born in Australia and i only see him when they can visit us. Every so often my daughter sends me a parcel of things he has made or painted and some of his school work. I treasure these items and i have them in a memory box. My youngest grandson is 4 and the greatest joy in my life. Anything he draws or paints for me i love and i do put them on the walls, front of the fridge etc. Every so often i take them down but keep them in a folder. You are so lucky to have grandchildren and they grow up so quick. Treasure them while you can as one day they wont give you anything.

Give me handmade over anything else every time and that goes for my adult children and grandchildren .

i have loads of pictures, paintings on my freezer from over the years, soon it will be time to put them in my keepsake box. i still have paper roses my daughter made when she was about 7, to cheer me up when i had broken my ankle.

My children were lucky enough to have gone to a comprehensive school where boys and girls got the opportunity to do woodwork, metalwork.. cooking and sewing.

Many many years later I treasure a wooden egg stand. a wooden key rack, a wooden paper towel holder, a pair of wooden salad servers, a metal tea caddy spoon, and a metal poker which are all in constant use.

Make the most of them your Grandchildren will soon grow up and you will never get those hand made presents again, you will miss them.

Handmade items that children made would be wonderful pass-along gifts to show their own children . For example .... "Look at what your daddy made for me when he was your age." Any child would be fascinated.

How can you possibly call your grandchildren’s gifts rubbish?
I call that comment not only odd but unkind. I can't wait until my two granddaughters aged three months and nearly seven months are old enough to draw their own pictures.I still have gifts from their fathers (my two sons) who are 34 and almost 44.
We are so fortunate to have grandchildren.

Yep.

I love the handmade gifts, they’re often personalised (there’s some very weird drawings of me ?) and are done with a lot of thought. My sons’ (now 36 & 34) young makes still adorn the Christmas tree every year

The hand made gifts & cards from my GDs are very special and I'll keep them forever as they were made with love just for me.

Grammy666, I give things to them - they don't give me stuff - as yet. Do be very careful of their feelings, though. My mother openly rejected gifts (handmade or bought) as unsuitable, 'tacky', cheap, 'Wouldn't give it house room' etc.. It really upset me.

I was keen on pottery as a child. My father appreciated my efforts and welcomed my gifts (never seen in the house, though). When we cleared his shed (selling the house) there were all my little pottery efforts, 70 decades later, with little field mice nesting in them!

Hanging in my kitchen window, I have a wind chime, made by my DGD in her first tech lesson in Y7. I'm so proud of it, even though she is now almost 19 and soon to be a student of design technology. One day I will be able to say that this was the first attempt of a famous designer. Think about that when you dismiss your GCs' artistic endeavours. You may have a future Picasso.

Would much prefer the things made by my Granddaughter than anything shop bought. I always make things for mine as it means a lot of effort and thought has been put into it.

My 16 year old grandson did roll his eyes when he spotted a picture he had drawn stating “I can swim wif harf arm bands”.

I also have a picture from DD2 with me dressed in sparkly lurex, high heels, red lips “My Mum went out last night. She went to the pub”. I was actually out for five minutes checking the time of a Tupperware party.

I did eventually resort to one in one out when I used to collect grandsons from nursery.

How lovely Hetty

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Whiff

How can you call something your grandchildren has made for you rubbish. I love everything my grandson makes for me because he has made it with love . I had horrible in law's everytime my children made them something they would say thank you and throw it away . It upset my children. My parents on the other hand keep everything from all 5 of their grandchildren. We only got rid of them when clearing out their house after they both died.

Be grateful you have grandchildren who love you .

Im not calling my Grandchildren rubbish .. its the stuff I don't want ... I must be on the "spectrum " ... I don't understand why people don't understand what I am saying ... they seem to think they are wonderful because they keep stuff ( thats the only thing I can call it )

Im not calling my Grandchildren rubbish

Whiff didn't say you did.

Even my DH who was not a child lover (even his own) was rather pleased with the little hand painted presents he was given by the grandsons.

When we cleared out my parents' home after they had died, we found box loads of my artwork from scribble when I was about a year old to cards I made as an adult for them. There was lots of it.
Then there was more and more from my 5 children to them...
It would have become a big issue in a tiny home!
These items had all moved house with them as well.