Have a sporty little one in your family? Here's a gift we made for our nephew last year.
All you need is a clipboard (even an old, re-purposed one since it will be covered), acrylic paint, scrapbooking paper, some mod podge, and some printed-out letters (I used font "Varsity Regular"). I painted the clipboard first, then decoupaged the paper on.
Then I downloaded a set of charts in a variety of sports from here. I laminated them and packaged them up with a set of dry-erase markers so he can design his own plays and then erase them again and again.
Voila!