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Get Crafty: Make Hand-Made Gifts

Kids and adults can make a wide variety of relatively low-cost gifts. Here are books with instructions on how to use duct tape, gloves, and old neckties to make hand-crafted gifts.

  Oh no, still need some gifts, eh?  Christmas is just around the corner, your kids'  banks, real or virtual, are depleted. What to do? You could look at Pinterest and of course there is Martha Stewart...but the advantage of browsing through a kids' craft book over googling for an idea, is that you can be fairly sure the result will be what is promised in the picture. This helps avoid a disappointing meltdown when that nifty idea for gluing macaroni to a can proves stickier than expected. All these titles can be found through the library and they will show each step of the process for each project. Being very practical, I like books that emphasize repurposing items in a truly useful way  AND which have ideas that can be done with little …

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