Helping Santa’s elves this Christmas doesn’t have to mean buying the latest Star Wars merch or Playstation (along with their price tag). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Creating a magical Christmas can be done from home to help you save time and money – and make lasting memories which will last long after the Baby Yoda phase has passed.
Here’s our list of stress-free, wallet-friendly and environmentally conscious gifts for the babies, toddlers and kindy kids in your life.
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Now, we get this may sound a little odd at first but hear us out. Babies are often showered with a million gifts from family and friends, sometimes for no particular reason. Before you know it, they have too many toys to know where to start when it comes to play time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our tip is to take note of the ones they’ve forgotten about and slip them away in a safe spot. Come Christmas Eve, wrap them up and watch as their joy is re-ignited on Christmas Day! After all, we all know babies just love the wrapping paper \u2013 so this way you save money while not adding to the world’s waste. You could even put the money you saved from the present into donating a gift for an underprivileged family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When it comes to toddlers, there’s no doubt you’ll have a few pieces on Santa’s list. So, to add a little magic to your Christmas morning (and create a memory that will last forever) grab some crafts from your local craft store and spend some time with your little one creating ornaments<\/a> for your tree. It’s cost-effective, encourages your child’s creativity and creates an opportunity for you to spend some quality time<\/a> to create together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re buying for other children, create a craft box and package it for them to pull out on a rainy day. Fill the box with modelling clay, a paint set, glitter pens and a DIY kit (there are loads of options depending on what they’re interested in: everything from jewellery to gardening kits).<\/p>\n\n\n\n While we’re sure your older child will have a few packages under the Christmas tree this year, it’s a really important time to acknowledge and support the families who may be doing it a little tough. Organisations like Oxfam offer online gift purchases which start from as little as $10 and can help an entire village. Why not offer your little world-changer a small budget and help them to decide how they would like to help the less fortunate this Christmas? It’s a gift and a lesson which could plant some important seeds in a young mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Helping Santa’s elves this Christmas doesn’t have to mean buying the trendiest toys. Check out these 3 out-of-the-box gift ideas for the kids in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[99],"oe_author":[],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home","tag-christmas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"oe_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oe_author?post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}3. For the older children: give a gift that keeps on giving<\/h3>\n\n\n\n