Ideas please

A question about : Ideas please

Not sure if this is in the right place but as sort of crafty,here goes.

School my grandsons attend is having a Christmas fayre in November. They will be having a room where the children can buy a present for mum/dad and it will only cost Ј1.

Can you give me any ideas of things which could be made for this please, nothing expensive obviously.

The PTA suggested going to pound shops and picking up things which are 2 for Ј1, but I would like some more unusual things.

Any ideas gratefully received.

Best answers:

• I think things like snowman soup and flannel reindeer would come in quite cheap and give a small profit.
  You could also visit beauty counters and ask for samples. Make little bags to store a selection in.
  If you've got the time, chocolate slabs could be made cheaply if you use the supermarkets 30p chocolate. You could spell out mum or dad in a different chocolate or marshmallows etc. have them in cellophane bags or even cling film to bring the costs down.
  Design wrappers (or have a competition with the kids for best design) and cover shop bought choc bars with them.
• Or even homemade truffles in homemade boxes
• Would truffles keep until Christmas if made early November, any time I've made them it's been for immediate consumption.
• That is such a lovely idea. I've had a quick look at Pinterest and found these:
  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/452541462528898146/
  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/452541462529495752/
  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/452541462530155453/
  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/452541462530238051/
  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/452541462530256145/
  I'll have another look as I think it's an interesting idea anyway
• If you can knit why not make a few of these which can be made from scraps of wool. I knit them every year and my family love them, the only wool I buy is the silver stuff for the wings and the wand. I also had to buy small beads for the eyes.
  https://www.alandart.co.uk/product/al...y-fairiesfree/
  Edited to say I've just seen that you can knit
• Those knitted fairies are lovely but surely worth way more than a pound - how long would one take to make?
  I am actually really struggling to think of things which can be made so cheaply. Maybe if you can get cheap materials and jars, you could do salt or sugar scrubs but would that be allowed (thinking good old 'elf and saftey regs).
• It depends on how good a knitter you are ( or how bad in my case ), once I'd made a few they didn't take long to churn out and they are very easy to knit. I've just seen he also has a free pattern for a birthday cake on his site, the next time I get the urge to knit I might make one for my daughter who will be 30 in a few months
  https://www.alandart.co.uk/product/al...day-cake-free/
  I also knit small Christmas stockings to hang on the tree, I fill them with sweets for my grandbrats and they love coming in to see what's been put in the stockings. I've used this pattern in the past but I use white hairy wool for the top of the stocking. You just have to be careful that they're not near the lights on the tree.
  https://www.jeangreenhowe.com/Images/..._Stockings.pdf
• Christmas tree ornaments made from felt? Felt sheets (A4 assorted colours) are available from ASDA at Ј2 per pack and there are hundreds of free templates and directions on the internet. They take about 2 hours each to make if they are complex, ( Santa, elves, etc.) and about an hour if they are simple ( mittens, stocking etc.) Just download and print the templates and instructions, you can also teach yourself and others to sew using them!!
• Trying to avoid tree decorations as the items for sale will be for giving mum or dad on Christmas day. We will be wrapping them up for the children so they will be a complete surprise on the day.
• You could try xmas crackers made from a toilet roll tube wrapped with a face cloth and add cellophane bags of sweets inside.
  We did these last year and the cheapest place for facecloths was Home Bargains or Wilkinsons.
• check out Ikea "Guest Towels", only 20p each and bigger than a flannel
• Hobbycraft sell wooden embellishments in their 3 for 2 offer, you could take the sticky pads off them and substitute them for little magnets or brooch backs and sell 2/3/4 for Ј1.00. You could download chocolate bar wrappers from Etsy, personalise them Mum, Dad, etc then buy mutipack chocolate bar and change the wrappers. If you have the time and patience you could make simple stretch beaded bracelets in Christmas colours, you could even get some alphabet beads and make up Mum, Auntie, Sister etc. If you are a papercrafter you could make up some personalised bookmarks.