| Design Your Own Gifts | | | | The coolest thing you can do for anyone, young or |
| Express yourself with presents. | | | | not so young, is make your own gift for them. Make |
| Looking for a special gift for someone special? | | | | a collection of popsicle sticks and ice cream bar |
| Something unique? Something only you will give? | | | | sticks. A couple hundred of these wooden sticks and |
| Something that tells someone they are special? - | | | | a bottle of glue can go a long way. Use a little varnish |
| That they really mean something to you? | | | | or paint, too. |
| Remember the Good Ol' Day when we used to | | | | [Suggestion: Don't get fat collecting confectionery |
| make presents for our family members and friends? | | | | paddles. Make a Popsicle stick recycling bin out of a |
| Why buy impersonal presents from a store when | | | | couple shoe-boxes, and let all the kids in the |
| you can design your own gifts and make them | | | | neighborhood know how they can prevent global |
| unique and personal? It was a lot more more fun | | | | warming by bringing all their Popsicle sticks to your |
| than shopping. And it saved money, too. And we | | | | recycling center. All the kids including the 73 |
| always appreciated those home-made presents more | | | | year-olds]Put Your Face On A Tee-Shirt |
| than the store bought ones. | | | | Today, thanks to electronic wizardry, anyone can |
| Those days are back. With toy stores pulling toy | | | | design tee shirts, coffee mugs, caps, posters, and a |
| after toy after dangerous toy from their shelves, it's | | | | myriad of things. Computers help, of course, but |
| our chance to turn to our own creative talents. | | | | people do the designing. |
| Creative Gift Making | | | | All you need to do is find a photo and scan it to a |
| Have you ever thought of what you could do with | | | | computer. Technicians take that photo and, within, |
| some of the things you normally throw away? Like | | | | minutes, they've got your picture on a bumper |
| those cardboard rolls inside toilet paper? Make a | | | | sticker, or a key-chain, or a poster with a scenic |
| collection of those toilet paper rolls and paper towel | | | | background of some place you've never been to. |
| rolls and aluminum foil rolls, etc., and you will have the | | | | Handmade toys and homemade gifts probably have |
| materials for many kinds of gifts. For example, just | | | | more class than those made on computers and |
| those cardboard rolls alone make a great construction | | | | machines. But, today, people have a problem finding |
| set for kids. | | | | time to make things - even for people they care |
| And don't throw away those old socks, either - | | | | about. Even for themselves. (Can you believe how |
| unless they really are too old. Dry beans or peas are | | | | many sales of "pet rocks" there were, just because |
| still pretty cheap. And you can make some pretty | | | | people were too lazy to find a stone and paint it)? |
| nice toys with socks and beans. Kids with nice, little | | | | Hand-made or machine-made; any personalized gift |
| bean bags to toss around are having more fun than | | | | will go over well with the person you give it to. They |
| the ones who get those super-duper compressed | | | | will know you cared enough to put something of |
| rubber balls that sell for 39.95. | | | | yourself into the gifts you give them. And they'll |
| And the Older "kids?" The really old ones? | | | | remember you for it. (So be careful what you give). |