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Christmas Gifts from Children to Family - December 2018

​When my grandchildren were younger, we started a tradition where the children gathered family photos and made personalized calendars for their parents. The kids were about 10 and 11 and 12 when they started, and I wanted to get them learning how to give gifts to their parents. The eldest was good with computers and he found the templates on line and then they all went through their photos they had taken all year, and jointly decided what photos to use that year. The theme was that when it was the month of someone's birthday they would find photos or scan old photos of that person to use for that month. Then they would all contribute a few dollars they had earned by gardening or washing cars or cleaning gutters or mowing and we would buy good quality cardboard to print their works of art, and I would take these to work and bind them for that years calendar. The gifts were really appreciated and each year it gave a update of how the kids had grown or their pets or both. Great grandparent got calendars too from the kids and it showed fun times that they had had with them either on visits or holidays when the family visited. 
Contributed by Penny Hughes