• Personalize Christmas gifts for children.christmas presents under christmas tree image by Maria Brzostowska from Fotolia.com
  
  If you are searching for the perfect Christmas gift for your child, then think about his interests, your budget and whether your family celebrates a religious or secular Christmas. These factors will work together to form the idea of a Christmas gift for your child that he will like and appreciate. Remember, it's best to set your budget before you start buying.
  
  

Stocking Gifts

• If you are hoping to have a simple Christmas, then consider filling your children's stockings with small gifts that they can use during the season and throughout the year. You can fill the stockings with candies, home-baked goods, a jewelry making set, a few small toy cars. Customize the small gifts to the interests and personalities of your children. Help your children explore a new craft or interest by dropping in art supplies, a camera or molding clay.
  
  

My First Cookbook

• Prepare future chefs in your house with a children's cookbook and a chef's hat. You can explore the recipes in the cookbook together--and you can make new ones together. If you have extra money, consider having the chef's hat embroidered with your child's name or nickname, preceded by the word "Chef." For children who are too young to cook, outfit a small table with used kitchen utensils--make sure they are plastic and do not have sharp edges--so that the child can "play kitchen."
  
  

Religious Gifts

• Christmas is celebrated as both a secular and religious holiday. The religious context is Christian, and commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ. Give a child of Christian faith a religious-themed Christmas gift. A few ideas are an illustrated children's book that tells the Christmas Bible story or a set of stuffed animals that represent the animals that symbolize Jesus Christ. For example, Jesus Christ is referred to as the "Lion of Judah" and a sacrificial "lamb," in the Bible.