We had to prepare for a birthday party recently. The invitation said "no gifts". Now, normally I would find it tactful to respect the "no gifts" request, but this party was in honor of a little girl that came to Chrysanthemum's party with a gift. I didn't feel right showing up empty handed. I told her mother so. Her mother said if it would make us feel better then we should just make something.
I thought that was a grand idea.
So we took our recipe for crayons (crayons and a candy mold) and made 6 of those suckers.
I took 6 or 8 sheets of basic white paper and folded them in half. Then I punched a hole in the fold on each end as far as the hole punch would reach, and bound it with a ribbon. I reminded Chrysanthemum that the pictures needed to be outlined drawings and she made the pages. She really enjoyed it too. It was sweet to see her putting so much effort into it.
Sweet stuff eh?