On my husband's side of the family, we buy gifts for a few sets of older children. Their ages range from 14 down to 6, so quite a wide span. A couple of years ago we decided to skip the usual toy gifts and give them a family movie night experience. This family movie night gift idea works for all ages!
This family movie night gift is great for:
- older kids, when you don't want to buy another gift card
- a whole family, when you want to buy them all one thing
- neighbors
- teachers
- and really anyone you know!
I got the idea from my aunts and uncles, who over the years bought my six brothers and me family gifts.
In past years, I went to Target, bought a big tin of popcorn, a set of hot chocolate mixes and a movie. And that's still a great, easy thing to do. But now that I'm home full-time, I have time to get a little more creative.
So, I made some M&M cookies in a jar. You can get the recipe HERE. I wrote the instructions on the inside of the card, like so:
You'll need a mason jar (pint size if you follow the recipe exactly, or quart size if you want to double it, which is what I did), some festive ribbon, twine and some Christmas printables. I searched all over the Internet and found these super cute {and free!} Christmas printables. I just hot glued them onto the lid.
I'm going to make some hot cocoa mix and jar that up as well. I'll post the recipe when I make it.
And this year, instead of buying one movie, we bought a gift card to RedBox. (Now I would buy a gift card to the movie theater or put money toward their streaming purchases!) That way they can have several family nights, more than one movie, and everyone can pick a movie of their choosing. RedBox sells gift cards for $6 for 5 movie rentals. Perfect!
So these families can bake cookies, make some hot chocolate and snuggle up for a movie night of their choice.
This gift is so versatile. You can customize it with different treats, or by picking out a great family movie. You could even include a blanket for snuggling!
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