| Kids are amazingly creative. Give them a
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| | Staple them in the middle to make a
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| cardboard box and they make a car, a doll
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| | booklet.
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| house or a robot. Give them a rubber band
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| | Give a booklet to each kid.
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| and they make a gun. Mine found a huge
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| | Let them plan out what goes onto each
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| rubber bad used by the florist and made a
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| | page before they actually start work.
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| gun using that rubber band and Lego
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| | Provide them with color paper, scissors,
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| bricks. It shot Lego bricks across the
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| | glue, pencils, pens and crayons.
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| room.
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| | Once they get the hang of it, they can
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| Getting kids to make Christmas gifts for
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| | make a book for each person on their gift
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| their friends and family members is a
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| | list.
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| sure way to keep them happily occupied
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| | They might even make a book for you.
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| and hopefully out of mischief. Here are
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| | 3. Friendly Stones
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| some suggestions.
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| | Get the kids to gather smooth palm sized
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| 1. Framed Art
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| | stones. Wash and dry them.
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| Any child can draw. Give them thick white
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| | Get white paper, black paper and colored
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| paper, pencils, crayons, or paints and
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| | paper. Get the kids to make eyes and
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| let them draw a christmas scene. Once the
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| | mouth out by cutting and pasting these
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| masterpiece is complete, Get the picture
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| | features on the stones. Let them get
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| framed professionally in an expensive
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| | creative and add in mustache eyebrows,
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| looking frame. It might even pass of as
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| | bow tie or anything they might think of.
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| fine art by a master people pretend to
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| | Once the glue on these stones are dry,
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| understand but no one really does. That
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| | cut a piece of velvet slightly smaller
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| might make a fine gift for a snobby
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| | than the stone and stick it underneath
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| relative, don't you think?
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| | each stone for a finishing touch.
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| On a serious note, a picture drawn by a
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| | 4. Bracelets
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| grandchild would be treasured by the
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| | Do you have a box of cheap beads with
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| grandparents. Frame the picture and let
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| | holes large enough for a thick, stiff
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| them give it to their grandpa or grandma
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| | elastic string?
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| for Christmas.
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| | Let the kids have the beads and the
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| 2. Picture Books
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| | elastic.
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| You could get the kids to make picture
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| | Teach them to thread the elastic through
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| books or activity books as gifts for
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| | the beads. When the string of beads is
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| those they love. When I asked my kids to
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| | long enough, teach them how to tie a knot
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| make a birthday card for grandpa, they
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| | with the loose ends to secure the
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| made picture books complete with
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| | bracelet.
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| lift-the-flap cut outs.
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| | Let them have the rest of the beads and
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| Bring the kids to the library to browse
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| | string to make Christmas gifts for the
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| through the picture books available there
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| | ladies.
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| for ideas. At the end of the outing
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| | With some creativity, the holidays can be
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| suggest that they make their own picture
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| | spent productively, making gifts for
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| books.
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| | everyone this Christmas. Who knows? The
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| Take 5 sheets of A4 size paper and fold
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| | kids might even surprise you with some
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| them in half.
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| | invention of their own.
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