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Children love to be creative. They can make many things from papers, cardboard boxes, and plastic bottles available at home. You may never know what a rubber band can be used for other than fastening something, but your kid might create a gun out of it.
The best way to use their creativeness is to keep them busy. You can get your children to create attractive gifts. Following are some helpful gift making ideas for children which keep them occupied for hours together:
Crafts and hobby kits:
Find a craft and hobby sets such as kid's crafts, craft templates, and arts and crafts projects for every vacation and season. These sets have easy-to-follow instruction manual in them which will help your kid in making gifts. You can also help them in making some gifts. They can create some wonderful gift items such as paper mache figurines, baskets, a Christmas tree, Easter eggs in a basket etc.
Picture frames:
Give your kids some thick white paper, some crayons or paints, some pencils and let them draw whatever they want to. During Christmas, they can draw a Christmas tree. Get that picture framed in an expensive looking frame. This will prove to be a unique gift because it has your child's imagination in it.
Colorful stones:
Let your kids gather smooth palm size stones. With the help of some colored paper and glue, kids can make cutouts of eyes, mustaches, bow, tie or anything from colored paper and glue them on to the stones. They can also stick velvet paper all over the stones to make Easter eggs.
Rock candy:
Among other easy gift making ideas, the easiest is making a delicious rock candy that can be prepared from home. For preparing rock candy, a child should have parental supervision and guidance. Dissolve sugar in water and boil it. Put the mixture in a jar and cover it with wax paper with a string, make your child add some strawberry or vanilla flavor into the concoction. As the water evaporates after one week, your rock candy will be ready. These can be given as gifts or added into a gift basket.
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