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Top 10 Books About Making Gifts

By Sherri Osborn, About.com

Get a jump on making that perfect holiday gift! This collection of books contains something for everyone, crafter and gift recipient alike.

1. Gifts to Make and Eat

By Elizabeth Macleod, this book is packed full of wonderful recipes and ideas for packing and/or wrapping the treats you make. Great gifts ideas for everyone to make or receive.

2. Gifts Kids Can Make

More than 250 full-color photos illustrate gifts children can make. The most colorful, easy-to-use guide you'll find.
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3. Gifts with Heart

Subtitled 'Inspiring Stories, Handmade Crafts, and One-of-A-Kind Ideas'. This book presents a collection of stories and ideas to inspire readers to give with thought and feeling. Readers can plan a "date" for their parents, write the story of their grandparents' lives, or compile an heirloom recipe cookbook.
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4. Make-n-Gift It

The best presents are the handmade kind, and this book is filled with fun craft projects that are ideal for giving! From photo frames and bird feeders to soap and bath salts, there's something for everyone on your gift list. (And you'll even learn how to make wrapping paper and cards!) Easy step-by-step instructions will guide you through creating amazingly cool gifts for every occasion.
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5. I Can Make Gifts

With this book, kids can make gifts that are fun, easy, and great-looking. Using common household odds and ends, construction is no fuss, no mess, with no complicated instructions. Let your imagination and creativity fly. These amazing presents are as much fun to make as to give.
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6. Hey Kids Let's Make Gifts

Original, creative ideas for all occasions: picture frames, paper angels, gift baskets, sun catchers, paper weights, memo boards, magnets, magazine bins, book boxes, elegant "silver" reindeers and decorations, aromatic spice wreaths, adorable gnomes and dolls.
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7. Last-Minute Christmas Gifts

These 60 great-looking, distinctive projects will solve your Christmas gift-list problem faster than Santa’s reindeer can fly. Some take only about 10 minutes, and you don’t need any special craft skills or unusual materials.
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8. Christmas Presents Kids Can Make

In this book, Kathy Ross offers 29 handmade gifts for children to create for their families, friends, and even pets. Most of the supplies needed for these crafts can be found in the home and, more often than not, involves recycling items.
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9. 101 Great Gifts From Kids

With over 70 gift-making activities, children ages 3 to 8 can create unique presents for all of the special people in their lives! Create a personal mouse pad for Mom. Dad will love the peaceful chimes of his Terra Cotta Music Maker. From the card to the wrapping paper, and everything in between.
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10. Handmade Gifts Under $10

This book is jam-packed with designs that both beginners and advanced crafters will enjoy. Full-color photographs present these imaginative projects that can be made using skills such as sewing, applique, needlework, and more. So, when readers are looking for something special but don't want to spend a bundle, Handmade Gifts Under $10 is the book for them.
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