November 29, 2010 09:06:59 PM
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This is a Chanukah Box. It can be easily created for less than $10 and you don't have to be an artist, but you should know how to measure paper and cut. Mostly it can be made from stuff around the house: a largish shoe box, scotch tape, double-sided tape, copy paper that can be drawn on, gift wrap, adhesive paper if on sale, say, at amazing savings, a ruler, scissors, colored markers, pencils, etc. and, most importantly, velcro dots. I did use stamps that I had carved, and ink, with my (at the time) young daughter helping with decorations. But, why make it? I didn't have birthday presents, much less chanukah presents, growing up - my mothers' reasoning was that we got what we needed when we needed it. Indeed, I was a frequent if unwilling beneficiary of Marshalls every time my mother went there, well into my 40s. The box was my impulsive attempt to combat my goyish husbands' Christmas traditions with a 3-year-old. It didn't work but the box has added a new level of expectation to my now teen-aged daughters' 'holiday season.' Advantages of the box: 1. you don't need to gift-wrap; 2. any member of the family (or more than one) can get a gift in the box; 3. a magazine gets the same treatment as perfume; 4. it's really nice on the last night when all the 'candle's' are on. I believe that this could be adapted as a lazy persons' Christmas tradition easily - again, no more gift wrap, and it's communal. It's very 'green.'

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