well if you are a crafty person you can always make something! How about offering babysitting services for your relations, try secondhand shops or dollar stores if you have any in your area.

Hi there,

Buy some cheap t-shirts and small amounts of funky fabric. Get some vilesofix ( iron on stuff for applique) and some bright embroidery thread. Applique the first letter of their first name on the front of the t-shirts using blanket stitch.

For girls, pick up some pretty hair ties and clips ( the $2 shops have heaps) You can make scrunchies from scrap material and elastic.

Bargain shops have some great bits and pieces- just wrap each thing seperately and they think it's fantastic! Ideas water paints, scrap book, textas, glitter pens, sheets of stickers, a bottle of bubble bath.

For female relatives- make some bath salts ( find recipes on internet) These you can put into jars that you have recycled and top with some fabric and ribbon on the lid.

There are a stack of other body products too - grab a big tub of sorbolene and a couple of bottles of essential oils. Mix and put into pretty screw top containers for scented body lotion. Can also make massage oil- use a mix of Olive oil,, Macadamia Nut Oil, Avocado Oil ( all from supermarket) and a couple of drops of essential oil. You can piick up cheap glass bottles to put it into from $2 shops add a homemade tag or label attached with raffia or ribbon.

Hope these help!

all our toy shops have bargain bins at the front aye... pick up some MAD toys heaps cheap. most of the time they are just the last one in the store n they not sellin it again.. still great toys though