A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.
~Unknown
For Wellness Wednesday, some ideas for things that you can make and give.
* I made these last weekend and they are really saving my lips:
10 minute DIY lip balm
* Construct a timeline of a person's life (or a couple's lives), and make game from it. I talk about Timeline here. You would take life events and put them on slips of paper or cardstock and see if other people in the family can put them in the right order. Did Grandma start working at the library before or after she lived in Georgia? Did Grandma and Grandpa meet before or after Grandpa joined the army?
* Make a zine for someone about a topic that interests them. What's a zine? A mini magazine with 8 sections folded from a single page:
Zine Template
How to Make a Zine
* Make some healthy cookies for someone who shies away from everyday sweets:
Turmeric Ginger Cookies
* Make some florentine cookies for someone who eats sweets with gusto:
Milk Chocolate Florentine Cookies
* I made a lyric fill-in-the-blank game that we played as a family...I tried to include songs that either all three generations might know, or that people could guess. Players got 1/2 points for entertaining answers. People were more likely to get it right when the blank was only one word, like "Rock me momma like a south bound ______" so include lots of those if you want it to be fairly easy.
Examples:
I know it's not much but it's the best I can do, ___________________ and this one's for you
There's nothing you can do that can't be done, ___________________ that can't be sung
You may be right, _______________, but it just may be a lunatic you’re looking for
Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong, _________________, mountain mama
(The person who answered "baby llama" got 1/2 point and me singing that version for probably all time.)
(Answers: my gift is my song, nothing you can sing, I may be crazy)
Do you have any suggestions for things to make? (Or any lyrics for me to guess?)
2 comments:
Thank you so much for this great list! I've been making zeno zines like crazy and was able to give them away at NCTE to great authors like Peter Reynolds and Kathryn Otoshi. I am saving the cookie recipe to make soon. Thanks!
I thoroughly enjoyed the fill-in-the-lyric game at Thanksgiving...it was a lot of fun.
Another suggestion: give two points for the correct lyric and maybe 1 point for the artist or the song title. This would add a little spice to the competition.
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