When my daughter, Katherine, was three years old, we struggled to come up with a holiday gift she could make. At her age, she was old enough to want to make presents for family members on her own, but too young to spend very long on each individual present. We decided to try making bookmarks. Katherine used her safety scissors to cut sheets of colored construction paper into short strips, then decorated each of them with drawings and her initials. Together we traced the pictures with glue and sprinkled multicolored glitter over them. Finally, we had our bookmarks laminated at a copy store. Katherine was very proud of her creations, and our relatives loved their handmade placeholders! The bookmarks were fun, inexpensive, and meaningful gifts for our little artist to make.
--Marina M., West Roxbury, MA

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