If all your recipients live up there in the cold near you, you might want to make fleece hats and matching neckwarmers. 5/8 yard will make a matched set since the fleece is usually well over 45 inches wide.
I cut rectangles of fleece about 20 inches by 20 inches. Fold in half right sides together and stitch along the stretchier edge (fleece stretches more in one directions than the other) about a half inch seam allowance, stretching slightly as you sew. This is the edge that will have to stretch to slip over the head. The seam will probably come out crooked and ugly, but fleece is very forgiving, and it won't show once you turn it.
Turn the tube right side out. Match up the seams right sides together and pin the single edges together as far around as you can manage. It gets a little awkward here as you end up working inside the tube . Try to stitch as much of the edges together as you can. You won't be able to sew the complete edge. The remaining opening will have to be hand stitched from the outside.
You can manipulate this ring of fabric placing the stretchy seam anywhere inside the ring so that the design shows the way you want it on the hat or leave the stretchy seam on what will be the top edge. To complete the hat you will need to hand stitch the top edge shut. You can simply stitch straight across resulting in two points, or fold and pin it to make 4 or 6 points, or even gather the top and sew on a pom pom or fringe if you desire.
Kids have remarkably big heads for their body size compared to adults, so the 20 inch size will work for most of them. Some adults might need you to cut the fleece an inch or two longer than 20 inches so the hat is not tight and popping off the head. These hats are just long enough to pull well down over the ears or to fold a brim. The neck warmers can be anywhere from 8-10 inches wide and still pull up nicely to cover the chin and nose.
If anyone can't make heads or tails of these instructions I can try to put up some pictures of the process.