Easy Last Minute Christmas Shopping Ideas

We all thinks we are DONE holiday gift shopping.  Then we do our stocking stuffer inventory or say yes to a Christmas Day drop-in and realize we are a present or two short.  Here are some easy kid gift ideas to keep the kids busy (and out of your hair).

• Crayons and Paper - Easy stocking stuffers or gift for the neighbour-child down the street who drops-in to play on Christmas Eve day.
• Gift cards - From a Timmies card (to buy their own donuts) to itunes (for the itween you have no idea what to buy).  A stash of gift cards can save mummy's sanity.
• DVDs - Muppets, Jack Frost, Mr. Popper`s Penguins (a fav. around my house this year) - dvds are a gift and activity in one.
• Books - From a great baby book (Good Night Moon) to tween fluff (Breaking Dawn) - books are easy to get (and wrap).
• Magazines - Great stocking stuffers and reading activity in one. 
• Gloves - Everyone needs them,  everyone wears them. 

  TIP:  Wrap an extra kid present (like gloves) and put it un-tagged under the tree.  That way when a surprise kid visitor pops by you can - so Martha-like - produce a gift just for them.