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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, unless they made it in school.  Honestly it's just more work for the parent/most likely mother.[/quote]

You don’t let them daw or color without direction and supervision? [/quote]

Exactly. It's not that hard. I'm the PP who posted about making an ornament with a kit from Michael's. I stopped at Michael's on my way home from work one day, paid $2 for the kit, and then told my 2 year old, "how about you decorate this for grandma and grandpa?" I set her up at her little table in the kitchen with some crayons and stickers and she was happy as a clam decorating it. After she went to sleep, I spent 5 minutes gluing the pieces together and it was done. Really not a big deal. [/quote]

Well, yeah, it's easy because she's two and nobody cares about the prodct. If you had three tweens, would you have them glue pieces of foam together? Or would you try to get them to do something more elaborate? And can you see how this might become kind of complex and a fair amount of trouble?[/quote]
This. Plus you have a small family. I have six kids. So not only is it six gifts to give to grandparents, but then also to each other. So now I have to stop and find age appropriate stuff and I’ve already purchased 7,001 gifts and hosted 15 people. So I’m not adding making gifts that will likely get tossed to my plate. That is why gifts flow down in our family, and if I could get rid of them entirely I would. [/quote]

Has no one in your family ever thought of a group gift? Is sounds like you are making this way more complicated than it needs to be? You are coming across as pissed off.

One of nieces noticed grandma’s pot holders were old and had some stains. She and her sisters pooled their allowance money and gave her a set of pot holders. My brother took them to the store, but the girls took care of everything else. They were excited to see her unwrap them and she put them to use right away.

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