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Christmas Gift Ideas - Soft Toys As Ideal Gifts

 

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Christmas Gift Ideas - Soft Toys As Ideal Gifts

Soft toys, if you notice, tend to be an ideal toy. Unbelievable? Well, allow me to explain. Soft toys can be given to people of all ages. Recipients may vary from a child of only one year old, to an adult of 30+ years old, and depending on individual, it may even go up to females of age 40 and above.

However, the type of soft toys given to each individual would vary. This is because, if you are giving a soft toy to a one year old, then the soft toy you buy must be of a infant friendly fur material. The fur must not come loose easily, so that the infant would not choke on these loose strands of fur.

As the child grows older, you would not have to worry so much about the fur, as the child is sensible enough not to put the soft toy into their mouth. Little girls of primary school age would adore soft toys. Soft toys to them are like things which they can cuddle in, and where they feel comfortable.

When the child becomes a teenager, the soft toys then represent companions who listen to all their troubles. These companions act as pillars of support, as the teenager starts facing more critical obstacles and challenges. These companions will be complained to, and as though as they absorb all the troubles away, they help absorb all the rolling tears. To a teenager, these are already more than enough.

You might wonder, then what about those adults? Why are they still clinging on to the soft toys? Those in the courting state would allow the soft toys to assume the role of their partner. These soft toys then represent the love the partners have towards each other. Although it is not comparable to the actual life form, the sight of the toys would already bring back those treasured memories.

How about those who are not boyfriends or girlfriends? The close friends exchange with each other soft toys because it represents their friendship that they treasure. Whenever their close friends are not physically there for them, the exchanged soft toys take their place to listen to all the latter's troubles.

Whereas the rest of the females, are just having a pure interest towards these soft toys. It is their hobby and their interest to collect as many soft toys as they can. Each soft toy received is like stamp collectors who have just found a limited edition stamp, being added on to their beautiful collection.

Hence, soft toys are such ideal gifts, as it can be so useful to each individual.

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Making a Paper Doll Chain With Your Kids

 

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Making a Paper Doll Chain With Your Kids

Making a paper doll chain is a perfect activity for dads and children on a sleepy afternoon. It is simple and does not require either time or money. Most importantly, it will be an exercise in creativity that the children will surely enjoy.

Things you will need:

• Some cardboard or hard paper
• A pair of scissors
• Pen, crayons, markers, and color pencils
• Glue
• Colorful paper or fabric scraps, buttons, beads, ribbons, sequins, and stickers to decorate the dolls

Steps to make the doll chain:

• Cut out a broad strip of the cardboard or paper. This could be about 10 cm high and as long as you want to make your doll chain.

• Fold about 6 cm of one end of the strip. At the point where the folded end overlaps, fold the strip again, but in the other direction. Go on making similar, alternating folds, so that the entire strip is folded into accordion style panels.

• Hold the folded panels bunched up tightly, with the top panel facing you. Help your children to draw the outline of a doll on this top panel, with the hands and legs spread out so that these extend to the panel borders.

• Carefully cut around the doll, taking care to retain the folds where the hands and legs touch the borders.

• Now unfold the strip to see your chain of dolls, joined by their hands and legs.

• Let your children decorate the dolls using the crayons, markers, color pencils, pieces of fabric, beads, ribbons, etc.

• You can even help your kids cut out little shapes from fabric scraps that they can use to create colorful dresses for the dolls.

You can use this chain to decorate the walls of your living room. You could even stick it around a lampshade, hang it as a mobile, or use it to decorate your child's door.

Hand-made crafts are an instant hit when it comes to gifts-they not only are beautiful but also appreciated more because of the effort put into creating them. Introduce Valentine's Day craft ideas in your family and convert your home into an activity center.

Paul Banas is a founder of GreatDad.com. He writes articles on crafts and kids, camping with Kids, traveling with kids, skiing and kids and many more topics related to dads.

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