12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas and FREE Printable

Five golden rings…Oh! Are you here for the 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas? Well, you are in the right place! We have the best gift ideas for this timeless tradition – along with some free printables for your gifts.

Ideas for 12 Days of Christmas

You know what Christmas song I really don’t like — I don’t care to listen to it, and I especially don’t like singing — is?

The 12 Days of Christmas. I know, bah-humbug. But it’s such a long song, and it’s really not that exciting. I mean, half the song is about birds…and I don’t really love birds.

However, I do love doing the 12 Days of Christmas to people, and even being the recipient.

A few times growing up, our ward at church would organize a 12 Days of Christmas — anyone that wanted to participate would sign up and get matched with another family and anonymously leave small gifts or treats for 12 days.

It was always so fun to try and catch the people, or to go drop off treats and get away before the other family caught us!

It’s also always such a great experience to do the 12 Days of Christmas to a family in need. While we aren’t the position to be able to do that right now, I look forward to doing it in the future. I know of several people who have been the recipients of the 12 Days of Christmas, who may not have had much of a Christmas otherwise, and have been so grateful.

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12 Days of Christmas Gifts

Day One Ideas (A partridge in a pear tree)

• Can of pears or basket of fresh pears
• Pear Pie
• A Partridge Family Christmas Audio CD

Day Two Ideas (two turtle doves)

• Dove Chocolate and Caramel Turtle Chocolate
• Items that come in pairs (fuzzy socks would be great!)
• Dove Soap

Day Three Ideas (three French hens)

• French macarons (because, you know, you have to use eggs to make these!)
• Sorting eggs learning toy
• Chicken noodle soup
• A gift certificate to Chick-fil-A or KFC

Day Four Ideas (Four Calling Birds)

• Three Hens and a Peacock (children’s book)
• A set of four stuffed birds
• Cell phone case

Day Five Ideas (Five Golden Rings)

• Five Ring Pops (maybe even paint the wrappers gold!)
• Pineapple in any form
• Unpeeled pineapple with pineapple slicer and corer
• Five golden chocolate coins (they look like rings, right?)
• Bag of frozen onion rings
• Bag of Funyuns
• Peach Rings

Day Six Ideas (Six Geese a-laying)

• Six eggs and ingredients for fancy omelets (maybe an omelet pan with instructions to make the perfect omelet.)
• Breakfast sandwich maker
• A gift card to Fast Food Restaurant for egg mcmuffins, perhaps?)
• Quiche Dish to make quiche in (with recipe)
• Cadbury Cream Eggs

  Day Seven Ideas (seven swans a’ swimming):

• Swan Princess (movie)
• Swimming toys (floaties, noodles, goggles, etc.)
• Bubble bath
• Rubber Ducks

Day Eight Ideas (eight maids a’ milking)

• Chocolate milk (or plain) and cookies
• Milk chocolate candies or chocolate chips
• Hot chocolate and a mug or hot drink holder.
• Hot chocolate bomb

Day Nine Ideas (nine ladies dancing)

• The Nutcracker book or movie
• Tickets to a ballet
• Just Dance video game
• A CD with great dancing songs (or maybe one of the bazillion versions of Kidz Bop.)

Day Ten Ideas (ten lords a-leaping)

•  Sugar Daddy Candy
• Jump rope

Day Eleven Ideas (eleven pipers piping)

• Whistles or flutes
• Licorice
• Pipe cleaners
• Pixie Sticks
• Straws (with a fun drink!)

Day Twelve Ideas (12 drummers drumming)

• The Little Drummer Boy Book
• Pentatonix CD with Little Drummer Boy
• Little Tikes Tap-a-tune drum
• A bag of dum dum suckers

Alternatively, you could just go with the number of the day, instead of the theme, and give a certain number of items on that day!

• Christmas Candy
• Chocolates (like truffles)
• Muffins
• Cinnamon Rolls
• Donuts
• Little toys
• Toy cars
• Hot chocolate
• Money
• Cookies
• Coins
• Bells
• Beads
• Crafts

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