subject: Best Present Ideas For Family Gifts At Christmas [print this page] There are instances when a gift must be purchased for a whole family. The most common time of the year this issue pops up is during Christmas. There may be a special neighbour and family that have been particularly close and a present is warranted. There are many gifts that are perfect for families and they will make the holiday season brighter just to know that friends are thinking of them. The following are some of the best present ideas for a family at Christmas.
A basket can be filled with all the things each family member enjoys. This is a great gift if you know the family well. You may know that one family member loves to cook and another likes to fix cars. You may know that one of the children loves movies and another collects toy frogs. This is easy. You just purchase individual gifts for each family member and add some gourmet cookies or ones you bake yourself or some fruit and present it all neatly. But, there are times when you do not know the family intimately and therefore have to guess what they all would like. That is when you do something a little more generic but it will still be appreciated.
Buy a board game for the family that they all can participate in. There are so many to choose from. You can easily find some of the old standards like Monopoly that have new twists for modern times. Guessing games are great like Trivial Pursuit or games like Pictionary or PassWord are oldies but goodies. If you know the family has certain video gaming equipment you can purchase games that they will all enjoy.
One of the best present ideas for a family gift is a movie and popcorn. You can do this in several ways. Most theatres offer coupon books that can be purchased and given as gifts. Sometimes they even include snacks at the snack bar. If they don't you can give a package of microwave popcorn and give them the coupons for the movie. The other way is to purchase a DVD of an old favourite or a new movie you know they do not have and give them a large bucket of popcorn or other nibbles.
Food baskets make a great gift if you do not know what else the family would like. You can get fruit baskets from the local grocery store, but some mail order companies provide them as well. There are some places you can get a variety of jams, jellies and honeys. Catalogues offer cheeses and meats while others sell pretty fairy cakes and cheesecakes.
If you know the family are ice cream enthusiasts you can get them a modern ice cream maker that takes a small amount of ingredients and you do not have to crank by hand. Include any of the ingredients you need to make ice cream except the perishable ones. Maybe they enjoy popcorn so give them a popcorn maker if they do not already have one. A snow cone maker is a great gift and so is a candy floss machine if they have a sweet tooth.
One of the best present ideas is to give them a subscription to a magazine that they all enjoy. There are lots of them out there for families in general with activities and games. You can get something more sophisticated that will educate both adults and children in the family. If they all like to cook find a magazine that will fulfil that need.
If all else fails, a gift card or certificate to the local video store or restaurant will suffice. These seem a little impersonal but the family will enjoy and appreciate them anyway. It is not easy to take a whole family out to eat these days and some of the best present ideas are the simple ones.
Giving a gift for a whole family is not as daunting as you thought. Some of the best present ideas are simple ones that will make a family happy and bring some Christmas cheer into their lives.
