Kids gifts to Grandparents

Aw every craft from a child is made with love and shows their self expression and view on the world. Perhaps do some guiding and nurture - teach them something it makes it more meaningful and can turn into a childs aim in life, and they will pass it on when they are your age.
Working with wooden toys we see these benefits come back time and time again

Yes!!!! -well you did ask! i still have stuff my children made and treasure the stuff my little grandsons are starting to make, and their pride and joy as the explain they made it for me. Unique and priceless gifts as far as I am concerned , but it would be a very boring world if we were all the same

My youngest GD made this for me when she was 6, now almost 13 and it lives in my purse behind a clear section. I see it everytime I open my purse.?❤

I really do not understand your attitude. I am not a dotty gran gazing lovingly at shelves.

My youngest son made a paper doily christmas angel and I still bring it out every year. Eldest son made a felt camel - still have that on my dotty shelf. Daughter knitted a teddy bear and its in my bedroom. The list is endless and they will stay in life forever. Just wish I had more. Sorry but I don’t feel the same way as you and as you can see on this wonderful site - a lot of others do not feel the same as you either. Have a lovely day.

I always gladly welcome any gifts from my grand kids. After being estranged from my daughter for 7.5 years and yet still able to see her two beautiful daughters i treasure everything that they make for me. Also my eldest son’s children haven’t made or sent me anything in such a long time. Treasure them and please do not moan.

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.

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.

Im not calling my Grandchildren rubbish

Whiff didn't say you did.

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 )

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How lovely Hetty

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

Yep.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.