Using textile paint, you can design handprint napkins, placemats, t-shirts, or lampshades, or even make a wall hanging of the family tree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOther Handmade Gifts<\/p>\n
There are many gifts the children can make with you: cookies or muffins, painted rocks for paperweights, books of your child’s artwork, etc. Children not only enjoy and learn from these activities, but also delight in the anticipation of sharing their creations.<\/p>\n
Though the process of making something from scratch is more creative and fun, it’s not always possible.<\/p>\n
When time is limited, your child can make gifts from kits, such as the rolling beeswax into candles, creating paper flowers, or painting a box. Make cookies together from refrigerated dough or have your child decorate gift containers for nuts and dried fruits. Stickers and decorative rubber stamps provide great beginnings for homemade wrapping paper, holiday cards, or decorations.<\/p>\n
Receiving Gifts<\/p>\n
As parents and adults, it’s helpful to remember that children also derive pleasure from giving as well as receiving. There is no gift more precious that seeing a child’s eyes light up when his handmade gift is received by a loved one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tis the season when the true spirit of giving is often overtaken by a frantic schedule. Before that happens, let’s find ways you and your child can create a more meaningful holiday. Your child’s innate sense of generosity can be expanded as you focus on the activities of giving thanks and making gifts. Begin with …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yycmontessori.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yycmontessori.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yycmontessori.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yycmontessori.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yycmontessori.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yycmontessori.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yycmontessori.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yycmontessori.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yycmontessori.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yycmontessori.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}