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Running out of gift ideas for people on your list? Working with a budget to bring holiday cheer to friends and family? With rising prices and limited resources, it can be a challenge for young consumers to share in gift exchanges. This issue suggests unique ways to make creative gifts from objects found at home. Follow written directions to magically turn a favorite T-shirt into a fun, functional, washable, and reusable shopping bag! Look through cabinets and cupboards for a jar that’s just the right size to fill with a year of happy memories. Delight your devoted dog with a colorful crafted chewing toy. You can even recycle a newspaper into a hunting game! No cost options will help stretch tiny budgets, recycle objects into useful items, and put a smile on faces of those you love!
In this issue students will:
- read informational text about recycling goods to make gifts
- follow visual and written instructions
- identify identical reindeer
- use the newspaper to locate items on a scavenger hunt
- write your favorite holiday jokes for sharing
- practice eye-hand coordination to solve a maze
- visually discriminate layered objects of different sizes
- learn to draw a reindeer in five easy steps
7 page PDF
