Cheap Ideas For Christmas Gifts

Cheap Ideas For Christmas Gifts

Games & Toys



Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Jenga is a towering good time and worth screaming about. For 1 or more players, ages 6 and up. Stack the pieces to build the tower. Try not to cause the tower to tumble. Packaged in a customized coffin-shaped box.

The classic Peanuts story is now a fun board game. Join Charlie Brown and his friends to see who makes it back to the Season’s Greetings Patch first to be the one to light the the star on top of the Christmas Tree. Includes the game board, Peanuts cards, character pieces, spinner, and instructions.

Test your Christmas knowledge against friends and family. Over 1000 questions in 5 categories. Fun for the whole family

Nightmare Before Christmas Trivial Pursuit
It’s the infamous Pumpkin King teaming up with America’s favorite trivia game to bring you the frightful Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Quick Play Collector’s Edition of Trivial Pursuit.

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Narnia Susan’s Christmas Gifts

Precious gifts from Father Christmas, Susan’s ivory horn, bow, and arrows save her life, just as he predicts. Her gifts also enable brother Peter and the great Aslan to track the evil White Witch, launching the battle of good versus evil and putting an end to the Witch’s wintertime reign over Narnia forever.

Relive Susan’s transformation from stoic child to gentle Queen with these incredibly detailed 1/6th scale prop replicas. Modeled after the original Weta Workshop, Ltd. props, each piece is constructed with the quality and authenticity you’ve come to expect from Master Replicas.

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Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game Win/Mac

Turn cranks, rotate gears, pull levers, and use catapults or any objects to build crazy machines with this fun software game for Christmas. This brain teaser will lighten up imagination with creative and addictive fun.

Features: Create your own unique contraptions Solve more than 200 challenging puzzles Put your machines to work.Engines with air-pressure, electricity, gravity, and particle effects. Experiment with gears, robots, explosives, and more.

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Barbie A Christmas Carol - Eden Starling and the 3 Christmas Spirits Gift Set

Eden is a picture of Victorian London perfection. Barbie is wearing a stunning red ball gown with flowing gold bow and shimmery accents. Beautiful details that are true to the film – her signature cameo necklace, pearl earrings, her voluminous draped velvet skirt and her glamorous gloves.

This special gift set also includes three Christmas Spirits characters from the movie. They are dressed here as the spirits of Christmas past, present and future.

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University Games Super Why ABC Letter Preschool Game

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Bob Moog and Cris Lehman founded University Games in 1985. The company has added many divisions and broadened our scope a lot since then, but the University Games’ products remain true to the standards set more than 24 years ago.

Our games are easy to learn. Start playing in five minutes. Our games keep all players involved, even when it’s not their turn. Our games are different every time you play. Our games combine luck and skill, so every player has a chance.

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Christmas Facts

Christmas trees were first lighted with actual candles, which presented a fire hazard. As a result containers filled with water had to be kept near the Christmas tree.

Workers in the construction industry are responsible for the tradition of having a Christmas tree on display at Rockefeller Center in New York City. They are credited with placing an undecorated tree at the site in the early 1930s.

Since the mid-1960s, The National Christmas Tree Association has maintained a presence in the White House at Christmas by donating a Christmas tree to the First Family.

The former Woolworth department store first sold manufactured Christmas tree ornaments in 1880.

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More Christmas Facts

Plastic became the primary material used to make tinsel after their use for decorative purposes was at one time prohibited because lead was used in the manufacturing process.

The idea of Christmas greeting cards started in Britain in the late 1830s when John Calcott Horsley started to produce small cards that had festive scenes and a holiday greeting written inside. Similar cards were also being made in the United States at about the same time by R.H. Pease, in Albany, New York, and Louis Prang, who was a German immigrant. The idea of sending the greeting cards during Christmas gained popularity in both countries about 10 years later when new postal delivery services started.

The shortened form Xmas for Christmas has been popular in Europe since the 1500s. It is believed to be derived from the Greek word 'Xristos' which means Christ.

According to the National Confectioners Association, for 200 years candy canes were only made in the color of white and it wasn't until in the 1950s that a machine was invented that could automate the production of candy canes.