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Historical December 1983 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
What can you do about holiday gifts when your library and your budget are both tiny? Maybe you never thought about the Kiosk as a big help at this time of year, but you should. Spin the shelves (not too fast) to find many good suggestions. Fun with Paper has instructions for a pinwheel, a jack-in-the-box, and even a twirling ape — if someone you know needs one.
All of these, will work and all are easy-tomake surprises for brothers, sisters, and friends.
A crocheted headband makes a nice gift. Yarn: the Things It Makes and How to Make Them shows you how to make this and other handmade items. Little Witch’s Christmas Book has directions for out-of-the-ordinary Christmas cards as well as simple presents like a chimney bank. Make joyful noises during the holidays with help from Make Mine Music. You can create a bullroarer, spike fiddle, carpet tube bongos, and even magical marimba resonators that may, unfortunately, make someone’s parents unhappy all year long. Dolls are always popular gifts. Carol Nicklaus’ Making Dolls has directions for a yarn doll and an especially appealing beanbag baby doll. Pocket games and a haunted house made out of a shoebox are some of the intriguing projects in Fairground Games to Make and Play.
If you have woodworking skills, a little adult help, and some tools, try the tub boat and stilts from Carpentry for Children or the hobby horse and boxmobile in Toys to Make and Ride. Easy-to-Make Contraptions has instructions for a simple go-cart. Give a wardrobe of hats for pretending — a witch’s hat from Superkids and a variety of silly newspaper hats from The Incredible Indoor Games Book.
And speaking of. silly, try some nose masks from the same book. You can count on Purple Cow to the Rescue for ideas like play clay, popsicle stick puzzles, and magic painting bags which allow you to fingerpaint without touching any paint.
Everyone loves to eat. Children Are Children Are Children has recipes for truffles. • sweet porcupines, and petits fours, which are little French cakes.
The Jewish Holiday Cookbook has a recipe for Hanukah sesame seed candy.
Two of our books will solve many of your gift problems at once. Do a Zoom Do has instructions for two kinds of ornaments, a dashiki, puppet cookies, and a bookcase made from an oatmeal box.
It also teaches you how to do batik, a technique for decorating cloth. Superkids is a treasure chest of suggestions including paper flowers. a terrarium, a scrapbook with marbleized end papers, a washcloth bib for a baby, a bleach bottle bird feeder, a bat and ball holder, and a loaf of sweet brown raisin bread.
If you run out of time and energy, look on p. 82 and make one gift for the entire family to share — a gingerbread house just a little smaller than the Kiosk.
In this season of giving, give the Kiosk a chance to help make your holidays creative and enjoyable.
Originally published in The Paper, December 1983.
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