Here we are again, a few weeks away from Christmas! It’s the time of the year where the holiday is characterized by the exchange of gifts among friends and family members.  Christmas gifts.  The questions are usually whom to give what and what to give whom.

Young people expect Christmas gifts more than adults seem to, and the idea of choosing  and deciding what  hot Christmas gifts  mean to the youth varies from one to the other.

However, here are a few examples of perfect Christmas gift ideas  that you may think about. Gifts that quickens the brain and sharpens the intellect of the young in many ways. 

Gift ideas that can open up and evolve a passion that was hitherto unnoticed in an individual or a young child.

GOOD CHRISTMAS GIFTS

A good Christmas gift is one that is positively beneficial to the recipient. Some may say when you receive a Christmas gift, it's the thought that counts. But there is no point in giving out a gift that goes unappreciated and gets tossed away into the closet without a backward glance.

Try to know the interests of the person you want to give a gift. It doesn't matter what the interest may be, but it has to be something that the person does, likes or loves to read or play with, etc.. Maybe a hobby, or a great area of interest, a game freak or a plain reader.

If your child knows what they want, that is a great advantage you have. You may ask them to give three options of what they wish from Santa. That way, it's easier for you to decide, especially if you are on a tight budget.

You may notice a flair that your child may possess, and decide on one of the hot Christmas gift ideas that's the rage. Your child might evolve a passion that started from a game and ended up a thriving and lucrative career.

Listed below are a few collections of great christmas gift ideas that are fun, exciting and challenging, without leaving a hole in your pocket! There are links to write-ups of each described game.

This is a wonderful Interior design game which can inspire a creative young person into a great career in the interior design, or, interior decorating industry.

You may detect a type of creativity in a young person who loves to decorate around the house. Knows how to place decorative objects in strategic places in the house, or tries to! Encourage this creativity. Who knows, he or she may decide to pursue a career in the interior design field in the future.

You can unlock hidden talents this way. A simple game as Imagine Interior Designer may spur a young child on to become a professional interior architect, interior designer or interior decorator.

You too can discover the fun in this game if you've always wanted to be a planner or a decorator. This exciting game, surprisingly, will serve as a 'beginner's course' in the fabulous interior design industry.

If you are young, and wish to learn what goes on in the fashion industry, about the runways and the worlds most glamorous profession, you just need to play this fashion designing game.

This Nintendo DS game, has everything you may need as a fashion designer, including clothing, customisable patterns and colours, shoes, hats, bags, belts, coats and other accessories that serve as add-ons.

Designs that can be created include skirts, gowns, pants, shirts and suits. The added fun tools can be used to create collars, pockets, belt loops etc. Create your own style and dress up the models to strut on the runway.

While having fun creating all of this, you are actually working as a young fashion designer and completing tasks and missions, and having deadlines. This brings in an aspect of a quest to the game. There is a project to begin and to actualise, including planning and holding fashion shows.

Have great fun, when playing Imagine Fashion Designer, exciting tasks to complete. This game may actually spur you on to become a fashion designer in the future, thus discovering the glamorous world of fashion and professional fashion designers.

Playing this numbers game has immense benefits to an addicted player, sharpening the intellect and offering a challenge to the brain.

A subtly deceptive game, Sudoku surprisingly, is easy to learn, but is highly challenging. Its really a "brain bending " game of numbers and logic. People have been captivated by this game and you can easily get addicted to Sudoku.

Sudoku doesn't require any special math skills or calculations. It's really just a simple, captivating and fun game which has a unique solution that can be reached logically without guessing. And all that's needed is brains and concentration.

Sudoku, with its many benefits, may have originated from a game called Latin Squares or Magic Squares thought up by the Swiss mathematician, Leonhard Euler. He invented Magic Squares in 1783, which had fewer restrictions than Sudoku with no lines dividing the square.

Identifying symmetrical patterns draws on the addictive nature of the brain, and Sudoku offers a challenge to the brain that encourages logical thought processes utilising the short-term memory.

It is thought that this type of puzzle helps prevent the advance of Alzheimer's and this offers some comfort for short-term illness, through its therapeutic thought patterns.

Playing Fifa 09 video games, a Pro Evolution Soccer Game, is such great fun that can hold you spellbound for hours!

It's like stepping out onto the football pitch, right in the comfort of your home! That's basically what FIFA video games are all about.

In Fifa soccer video games (the most authentic football simulation EA Sport have ever delivered), you can live your dreams and fantasy of playing as a football professional. A game that mirrors real-life performances, and can be customise to suit your own style and ability.

You can be player, coach and manager. You make the decisions about your teams strategy, and how they will play in any situation, in any stadium.

There's a vast number of leagues that abound on Fifa video games, including the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, French Ligue 1 Orange, German Bundesliga, Italian SerieA and Mexican Primera Division.

The soccer match day experience is incredibly 'true to life', with a referee and his assistants, cheering and booing crowds, stadium atmosphere and commentary, and all have been regionalised in exact details with the real life soccer stadiums.

The games of a past era are still very much around and are now the rave! And for those who love to play the good old games, many of these games now have modern and computerised versions.

I love games of the past era, especially playing the traditional board, dice and some card games. With a passion!! And there is now a comeback.

• Ludo - A very easy board game, Ludo is for 2 or 4 players. Players play by racing their tokens from start to finish, depending on dice rolling.

You must throw a six on the dice before you can make your first move from the home area and onto the starting square.

Subsequently, a player moves according to the dice throwing result, moving 1 to 6 steps at a time.

• Dominos - Are simple building blocks assembled in many ways to create a large variety of games that require great skill and strategy.

They are something of a generic game, like playing cards and dice and consist of playing blocks (or tiles as its also called), with black dots on a white background.

• Snakes and Ladders is a classic board game, mainly for children, but enjoyed by adults playing games with kids.

The playing board is made up of a grid with numbers from 1 to 100, which varies from board to board but most commonly 8x8, 10x10 and 12x12.

• Mancala, a group of games that originate from Africa, is in a way similar to Dominoes and Card games in that it’s a group of games which fall under a heading.

Also called Ayo, Oware, or Aware, this game is played on a board of sorts, with 2 rows, or ranks, with 12 holes and two store pits at each end used to hold the winnings.

There are variations to this board, as some can have more holes on either side or more rows, to create four rank Mancala boards.

• Chess is one of the oldest games of skill known to man, and has become the true game of the brain. Chess enhances the power of thought in people who play regularly, and is known to enhance and sharpen the intellect of young players.

Some historians date it as early as the 2nd century, but many believe playing a form of chess started as early as the 7th century. There are documented evidence to prove this.

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