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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 453761" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>For boys: nerf, lego, tools, magic tricks. One cool thing I did for wiz was to get a book of science experiments and the basic things to make most of them. He got more out of that than any other gift that year. Including the video games he begged the in-laws for! There are also a lot of awesome craft books that could come iwth basic craft supplies. Keep an eye out at yard sales for craft stuff. time with nana to make stuff counts as part of it also, though many are not needed for easy child's son(s). I would NOT give katie's kids any of those things unless you plan to keep them at your home. Not just their ages, but the total neglect means that they would misuse them and/or hurt themeselves or each other with them. That would open them up to M abusing them over it.</p><p></p><p>What about wooden blocks for the boys? If you have any scrap wood around, get husband to sand it smooth then cut it and sand the cut edges smooth. </p><p></p><p>They also might like those felt boards. the felt story boards are what I am talking about. You can just glue felt to a piece of cardboard or particleboard. I would use felt by the yard not the precut squares. then cut out shapes and people from felt and they will stick on as they work out stories or you tell them stories. I once did portable feltboards for an entire class using file folders. I just glued the felt to the inside of the folder and had the kids cut out the people, etc.... that they wanted. When time to clean up, the felt shapes just get put into the folder and it gets folded up and put on a shelf or in a file drawer.</p><p></p><p>You might find rescue rangers at yard sales. If they have vhs players, the vhs tapes are at yard sales everywhere here. Last Christmas I made a little boy's year by passing on all thank you's rescue hero stuff. It was for his Nov birthday but there was so much that it also did Xmas. As the dad was out of work it was a big help. they passed some stuff to us, forget what but my kids liked it, so they didn't so much feel like charity even though it was freecycle and I didn't need anything back.</p><p></p><p>I did an awesome Rescue Hero cake for thank you's birthday one year. Did 2 9 by 13 cakes and cut each in half. I stacked them and decorated them like a building. Then I used white chocolate and powdered food color to make flames that caem out of the building. I just made the flames on wax paper and peeled them off then stuck them on and in the cake. I put a rescue hero figure on the cake board with the fire hose (part of his presents) and it looked AWESOME. Katie's boys are the right age for rescue heroes, at least the younger one is. This was probably the easiest cake I ever decorated, lol. Easy windows and doors can be made with graham crackers and other cookies if you don't want to mess with colored icing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 453761, member: 1233"] For boys: nerf, lego, tools, magic tricks. One cool thing I did for wiz was to get a book of science experiments and the basic things to make most of them. He got more out of that than any other gift that year. Including the video games he begged the in-laws for! There are also a lot of awesome craft books that could come iwth basic craft supplies. Keep an eye out at yard sales for craft stuff. time with nana to make stuff counts as part of it also, though many are not needed for easy child's son(s). I would NOT give katie's kids any of those things unless you plan to keep them at your home. Not just their ages, but the total neglect means that they would misuse them and/or hurt themeselves or each other with them. That would open them up to M abusing them over it. What about wooden blocks for the boys? If you have any scrap wood around, get husband to sand it smooth then cut it and sand the cut edges smooth. They also might like those felt boards. the felt story boards are what I am talking about. You can just glue felt to a piece of cardboard or particleboard. I would use felt by the yard not the precut squares. then cut out shapes and people from felt and they will stick on as they work out stories or you tell them stories. I once did portable feltboards for an entire class using file folders. I just glued the felt to the inside of the folder and had the kids cut out the people, etc.... that they wanted. When time to clean up, the felt shapes just get put into the folder and it gets folded up and put on a shelf or in a file drawer. You might find rescue rangers at yard sales. If they have vhs players, the vhs tapes are at yard sales everywhere here. Last Christmas I made a little boy's year by passing on all thank you's rescue hero stuff. It was for his Nov birthday but there was so much that it also did Xmas. As the dad was out of work it was a big help. they passed some stuff to us, forget what but my kids liked it, so they didn't so much feel like charity even though it was freecycle and I didn't need anything back. I did an awesome Rescue Hero cake for thank you's birthday one year. Did 2 9 by 13 cakes and cut each in half. I stacked them and decorated them like a building. Then I used white chocolate and powdered food color to make flames that caem out of the building. I just made the flames on wax paper and peeled them off then stuck them on and in the cake. I put a rescue hero figure on the cake board with the fire hose (part of his presents) and it looked AWESOME. Katie's boys are the right age for rescue heroes, at least the younger one is. This was probably the easiest cake I ever decorated, lol. Easy windows and doors can be made with graham crackers and other cookies if you don't want to mess with colored icing. [/QUOTE]
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