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So this is an edible gift, but people always love it. We make chocolate spoons and marshmallows (dip them in melting chocolate and top with all kinds of things—peppermint, different flavored chips, etc.). We pair it with hot chocolate, either homemade or store bought. People expect them from us every year now! DD has a blast making them.

This year we also made shaving cream paint cards (they LOVED doing this) and we’re making salt dough ornaments.

One of my friends recently made something I want to try: they made crayon shavings, put them in glass bulb Christmas ornaments, and used a blow dryer to melt the bits. It looks awesome!

We did finger print magnets one year for grandparents. The kids loved it and it was easy. You use the white foamy clay stuff and roll a ball, flatten and put your thumb print or fingerprints in it in shapes. Once they dry you can paint them (we did them as lady bug thumb prints and flowers were like 4 or 5 fingerprints in a circle. ) and glue the magnet on the back.

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Do they still make those old loom things that you can use to make pot holders? My poor grandmothwr had a ton of them but pot holders are necessary and do eventually get old and tossed.

The acrylic beads that you make a pattern and melt together can be used to make ornaments.

Garland for a tree by stringing bells onto ribbon or string.

I don't know if a 6 year old could do this but there's some new yarn out that has loops in it. You can make a blanket or scarf by "finger knitting" it. There's youtube tutorials.

Soap or bath bombs? Klutz has some kits I've been eyeing. Also magnets are fun and easy to make. Decoupaged vases or coffee mugs with the dishwasher safe mode podge on top. Oil based sharpies on ceramics work too.

We made these felt ball garland! From Amazon. A cheaper option we also did was wooden beads from Amazon to make garland

My mom gave DD1 a Cra-Z-Art shell art kit for her birthday. The kids went to town painting all the shells in the kit, then more shells they found on the beach. Then they gave a lot of these shells away as gifts. They turned out really cute and the kids had lots of fun making them. And there's a lot of paint so it's enough for months of birthdays and art projects