Five Gift Ideas for the Real Children on your Shopping List

posted November 29, 2006 - 9:25am

Five Gift Ideas for the Real Children on your Shopping List

- Recycle Every Day Book height="1" src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=E/fU5ox*MOk&bids=119262&type=2&subid=0" /> - Help teach children all about recycling and helping preserve our environment for generations to come. This book will introduce your child to the world of recycling and the options available. When Minna has a school assignment to make a poster about recycling, her entire rabbit family spends the week practicing various kinds of recycling and suggesting ideas for her poster. Ideal for beginning readers through age 8.

- Barney: It's Time for Counting DVD - As adults we all love to hate Barney, but he sure is a hit with the kids. This DVD has the notorious purple dinosaur and his friends teaching your children all about counting. Drop it in the DVD player and run for the hills as the rambunctious dinosaur goes to work teaching your kids the ins and outs of numbers. Many it will give you the respite you need to pop open that bottle of wine that you have been eyeing up all day and settle in with a little bit of the holiday cheer for yourself.

- Five Children and It and The Return of It (DVD)Sometimes a good old-fashioned fairy tale is in order. If your children enjoy fairies, magic and mayhem this this is a gift for them. 2 DVD Set Description:
Take a grumpy old sand fairy who needs a friend, and add five vacationing children who befriend it. Mix slowly, and bake up an enchanted summer holiday in this delightful BBC adaptation of E. S. Nesbit's classic novel. "It"-the Psammead-is an ancient creature who can grant the most fantastic wishes-but be careful what you wish for! This series stars Laura Brattan, Michelle Evans, David Garlick, Paul Shearer, Leonard Kirby, and Anna Massey.

- Bob The Builder: Deluxe Costume - If only I were young again, then I too could dress like Bob The Builder! Your little one can dress just like their favorite handyman with this Bob the Builder(tm) Costume. This deluxe costume includes a printed checker shirt, blue overalls, a yellow construction hat and a tool belt with a hammering sound box for lifelike hammer noise, a wrench, screwdriver and hammer. Everything your child needs to head out into the backyard and begin working on the next major expansion project for the perfect home...a tree house!

- Liberty's Kids: Justice for All - Book - Help your children learn about the history of America as well as other things with the Liberty's Kids series of books. With the help of Ben Franklin, Moses (a freed slave), James and Henri (Ben Franklin's apprentices), and Sarah (a British teen who traveled to America), readers will travel back in time to discover what happened in American history from December 1773-September 1774. Written by Amanda Stephens, Illustrated by Flying Carnies. (The Boston Tea Party. Taxation without representation. Intolerable Acts. The First Continental Congress.)