Accessory Doll Gift Gras Jester Mardi Blog

Expand this craft box with a strip of acrylic paints or a small watercolor palette. Include a few chenille stems, pompoms, and wiggle eyes. This is the perfect item for crafty kids but also will get discovered on a rainy day or when the child’s family goes on vacation and they look around the house for activities to bring along for the trip.

Create a Nature Explorer’s Bag

Begin with an inexpensive backpack or fanny pack. Tuck in a bug collection box or jar, a small hand net, a magnifying glass, and a notebook and mechanical pencil so the child can record their discoveries. Depending on one’s budget, inexpensive binoculars or a compass could be added. Lower costs by filling a large bug collection jar with a magnifying glass, a couple of small bug boxes, and a strip of insect stickers for a fun touch.

Another option is to take a divided plastic box (look with jewelry making supplies or fishing equipment) and decorate the cover with, ‘[the child’s name]’s Treasure Box.’ Tuck a couple of interesting rocks and seashells in a couple of the compartments and leave space for the child’s own collection.

Cookie Making Kit

Fill a jar with the dry ingredients for making cookies. Print out the ingredients in the mix as well as the recipe for completing the cookies (or brownies). Check beforehand with the parent to find out if the child has any allergies – when in doubt, skip this gift idea.

Another option would be to fill a large jar with gorp trail mix – mix up raisins or dried cranberries, peanuts, O-shaped or granola cereal, sunflower seeds, and chocolate or peanut butter candies. Tie on a label proclaiming this as ‘[child’s name]’ on-the-go energy snack’ – an appropriate gift for the kid who goes hiking or plays a lot of sports.

Each of these do-it-yourself gifts involves assembling an assortment of items into a themed gift. These are ideal when a child will be attending multiple birthday parties in a month or over the year. By dividing some items over several gifts, parents can keep costs down while giving gift that offer a variety of activities for young children.

I am the child who cannot talk. You often pity me, I see it in your eyes. You wonder how much I am aware of -- I see that as well.I am aware of much, whether you are happy or sad or fearful, patient or impatient, full of love and desire, or if you are just doing your duty by me. I marvel at your frustration, knowing mine to be far greater, for I cannot express myself or my needs as you do.

You cannot conceive my isolation, so complete it is at times. I do not gift you with clever conversation, cute remarks to be laughed over and repeated. I do not give you answers to your everyday questions,responses over my well-being, sharing my needs, or comments about the world about me.

I do not give you rewards as defined by the world's standards -- great strides in development that you can credit yourself; I do not give you understanding as you know it. What I give you is so much more valuable -- I give you instead opportunities. Opportunities to discover the depth of your character, not mine; the depth of your love, your commitment, your patience, your abilities; the opportunity to explore your spirit more deeply than you imagined possible. I drive you further than you would ever go on your own, working harder, seeking answers to your many questions with no answers. I am the child who cannot talk.

I am the child who cannot walk. The world seems to pass me by. You see the longing in my eyes to get out of this chair, to run and play like other children. There is much you take for granted. I want the toys on the shelf, I need to go to the bathroom, oh I've dropped my fork again. I am dependent on you in these ways. My gift to you is to make you more aware of your great fortune,your healthy back and legs, your ability to do for yourself. Sometimes people appear not to notice me; I always notice them. I feel not so much envy as desire, desire to stand upright,to put one foot in front of the other, to be independent. I give you awareness.I am the child who cannot walk.

I am the child who is mentally impaired. I don't learn easily, if you judge me by the world's measuring stick,what I do know is infinite joy in simple things. I am not burdened as you are with the strife's and conflicts of a more complicated life. My gift to you is to grant you the freedom to enjoy things as a child,to teach you how much your arms around me mean, to give you love. I give you the gift of simplicity. I am the child who is mentally impaired.

I am the disabled child. I am your teacher. If you allow me, I will teach you what is really important in life. I will give you and teach you unconditional love. I gift you with my innocent trust, my dependency upon you. I teach you about how precious this life is and about not taking things for granted. I teach you about forgetting your own needs and desires and dreams. I teach you giving. Most of all I teach you hope and faith. I am the disabled child.