Family Christmas Gifts

Our pick of family Christmas gifts is The Family Christmas on a pillow or canvas, a Christmas Sweater blanket and a photo book of the year from Printerpix. The Family Christmas uses your last name as a headline over a single photo, plus the year and a line. Christmas Sweater wraps a few faces in a cozy knit pattern.

A big puzzle of last summer's lake trip is a holiday gift the whole family can share, finished on the dining table over the holidays. A Printerpix photo blanket of everyone on the porch suits the couch in a big family house. Pick a gift for a shared room, so it belongs to the whole house.

A puzzle or photo blanket fits a family that stays home over the holidays, while a canvas suits one that loves decorating. For a big family spread across states, a photo calendar brings everyone to the kitchen wall month by month. With little kids, choose a design with their names; without photos, the Family Tree works on a canvas, pillow or framed print.

A canvas or calendar displays family Christmas photo ideas worth printing: matching pajamas on the staircase, the kids in a laundry basket of wrapping paper, a big family lined up by height. Last year's best shots work too, so nobody needs a new photo shoot. Polaroid Garland lays several out like instant prints along a twinkle-light strand.

Photo Letters spelling your last name, the letters filled with family photos, is an unusual family Christmas gift on a blanket or puzzle. For something funny, put the family's worst group shot on a mug, red eyes and all. Fun gifts like these get passed around the room before dinner.

For a boyfriend's family, or family friends who host every year, a framed print of the family at an event you both went to makes a gracious custom gift. With no shared photos yet, the Family Tree with their names, on a canvas or pillow, needs none. Keep it about them rather than you.

From all the siblings, Our Year in Pictures on a canvas lays the year's photos in a grid around the big year numeral. One person collects the photos and orders through Printerpix. Dad on his own has Christmas gifts for Dad, Grandma and Grandpa have Christmas gifts for grandparents, and our Christmas gifts page lists every seasonal idea.