I mostly don’t like gifts. But one year my kid decorated a really simple book bag. I do use that regularly. If i ever washed it, the design would come off. But it does get used. I think a pre school teacher had them assemble a tiny clay pot, clay in pot, popsicle stick in clay. Stick is flower stem. Has a paper flower shape glued together the top. In the middle of the flower is a tiny picture of my kid.

I like that these are simple, and fast activities. I remember making stuff in school as parent gifts that took one million years of effort.