Looking for gifts for your nieces or nephews? Need gift ideas for your cousins, brother or sister? Or maybe you’re in search of a gift to dazzle your own family? Perhaps it’s the holidays and you have too many people to buy gifts for. Whatever the occasion whether you are looking for a surprise random gift, in need of a housewarming gift or it’s for the holidays or birthday, one of the best ways to please one person is to please their whole family. Create some excitement for everybody. OK, so you have your typical ideas, movies, video game systems, board games and so on.

How about some truly unique gift ideas?

From small and inexpensive to radically different and a bit pricier, these gifts may be just the answer you’ve been looking for. Everyone has their own price point and barometer of how extravagant they want to go. So whatever your budget is, you want your gifts to go a long way to create lots of fun for a long time, right? Well, let’s go back in time for a second. Remember those days at the carnival or at the amusement park or even Disneyland or Disney World as a kid with your family? Well let’s bring those days back to the future. If you or the family you’re shopping for have a rec room or game room, or just spend lots of time on their patio in the backyard, old fashioned popcorn machines make great fun, especially for parties. Whether for a child’s birthday party, game night, movie night or Super Bowl party these machines create tasty snacks and loads of fun. They’re great for fundraisers and good to use at garage sales to create buzz and attention. Popcorn machines come in the tabletop size, like the ones at the movie theater up to the actual cart variety you’ve seen at carnivals. You couldn’t resist walking by the popcorn cart at the amusement park as a child (or even still now), now you have your own.

Playing off the carnival/amusement park idea you also get actual cotton candy makers or sno cone machines. I don’t know about you, but I still turn my head as an adult when I see a vendor at a ball game carrying that powdery, colorful stuff up and down the aisles. I still love the taste and your kids, or your brother’s kids will get a kick out of having their own machine for parties or barbeques. Sno cone machines take us back to the hot days by the pool when the only thing we could think about was one of the white paper cones filled with shaved ice drenched in cherry syrup. We laughed at each other’s blue and red tongues. Now you can bring those memories back.

Perhaps one of the best memories we can all share is sinking our teeth into a powdered sugar covered funnel cake glazed with rich chocolate or blanketed with smothered fried apples. If you’re looking perhaps considering a smaller gift idea, then this is the one. They’re inexpensive and very easy to use. Your nieces and nephews or your own children will have fun coming up with all different kinds of toppings to splatter on top of these doughy delights.

What did you do last Saturday night? Maybe you went to the movies. Maybe you went out to get ice cream. How about doing both at the same time from the comforts of your own home?

Ice cream makers will bring more good times to a family than most gifts. The immense variety of flavors and toppings is endless. Kids love to use their imagination and here’s a gift that will give them that opportunity. They can make up their own flavors, Cherry Strawberry Blitz, Blueberry Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter Toffee Double Chocolate Chaos and on and on. They’re easy to use and don’t take up much space. And we’re not talking about your ordinary ice cream here either. These clever devices create some of the creamiest, softest ice cream you’ve ever had. They make movie or game night even more fun, they’re great for birthday parties and big family outings. This is a great gift for multiple occasions.

And last, but not least, it’s time for perhaps the coolest, if not the most extravagant idea of them all. Close your eyes and picture yourself back at the malls as a teenager at the arcade. OK, maybe it was your brother and not you. Now imagine your own Pac Man arcade game. How cool would that be? Provided you had the space, this would make the perfect adornment in your game room or rec room. Your kids might be used to the more technologically advanced games, but give them a taste of the original video games. You could spend numerous nights competing for the high score in order to earn bragging rights. Or let’s face it, how cool would this be during halftime for football parties?

From small to large, inexpensive to a slightly bigger investment you could bring loads of fun for many years to anyone’s family, whether it’s your own or a friend or relative’s family. Bring out the kid in all of us and go back in time to the days you spent at the county fair or Disneyland. Enjoy and have fun!