Help! Need suggestions for gifts for children of host families
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Help! Need suggestions for gifts for children of host families
Hello everyone,
We will be traveling to Denmark in June. Part of our time will be spent staying with relatives. We like to take gifts for our host family's children and have run out of ideas. On past trips we have taken T-shirts, (calculating sizes is a real challenge) baseball caps, and MagLite mini-mag flashlights.
To add to the challenge we prefer to give all the children the same thing. There are four boys, ages 8, 12, 14 and 17, and two girls ages 9 and 15.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions we would really appreciate the help.
Thank you much.
Iowa_Al
We will be traveling to Denmark in June. Part of our time will be spent staying with relatives. We like to take gifts for our host family's children and have run out of ideas. On past trips we have taken T-shirts, (calculating sizes is a real challenge) baseball caps, and MagLite mini-mag flashlights.
To add to the challenge we prefer to give all the children the same thing. There are four boys, ages 8, 12, 14 and 17, and two girls ages 9 and 15.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions we would really appreciate the help.
Thank you much.
Iowa_Al
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You local post office has some nicely packaged stamps, sometimes using a theme that would be of interest to children, if there are any stamp collectors among them.
I understand that the PO also has a stack of Fodor pins somewhere, but that's another thread
I understand that the PO also has a stack of Fodor pins somewhere, but that's another thread
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novelty candy. we brought some and the kids loved it. Also, stained glass with local dried flowers pressed in clear glass, found at art fairs. For something a little more expensive, a portable CD player for the kids with NOW CD's. Calendars from your part of the country. Native American silver jewelry
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Something that is unique from your part of the world is always special. That also is true for gifts you bring back. Sometimes it is something that we consider everyday that others find special and will make them think of you every time they see of use it.
I'm from Texas and that's easy for me. But forget the obvious, once I took a cotton plant as a gift because the city raised child I was visiting did not know that cotton grew.
The first time I went overseas I brought home an egg timer that was in a piece of 2000 year old slate. It was definately tourist "junk", but it was the one thing that everyone wanted me to give them. It's decades later, and I still have that piece of "junk" by my stove.
There is bound to be something that would help the children know you, what you do, or where you live better. I think such a personal gift would be cherished.
I'm from Texas and that's easy for me. But forget the obvious, once I took a cotton plant as a gift because the city raised child I was visiting did not know that cotton grew.
The first time I went overseas I brought home an egg timer that was in a piece of 2000 year old slate. It was definately tourist "junk", but it was the one thing that everyone wanted me to give them. It's decades later, and I still have that piece of "junk" by my stove.
There is bound to be something that would help the children know you, what you do, or where you live better. I think such a personal gift would be cherished.
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Hi
My brother, sister and I used to have a similar situation, our 'auntie' would visit us from London every 6 months and would always bring us books. It's something I appreciate to this day and still have loads of brilliant books that bring back childhood memories. There are great children's books and hardbacks of classics are also excellent.
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My brother, sister and I used to have a similar situation, our 'auntie' would visit us from London every 6 months and would always bring us books. It's something I appreciate to this day and still have loads of brilliant books that bring back childhood memories. There are great children's books and hardbacks of classics are also excellent.
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