Chanukah is best celebrated with a homemade menorah. The Fourth of July is an opportunity to hang patriotic bunting and pictures of the Founding Fathers. Handmade Gifts Instead of always buying presents from the store, some families establish a tradition of making them by hand. Young childen are normally delighted to make and give presents to family and friends. Nturally, some families are better at crafts than others, but a wide variety of wonderful resource books are available filled with projects and ideas for every age group, season, and occasion.
Some families gather used coats, mittens, boots, and scarves to distribute to homeless people.
Some prepare basket of homemade food for a needy family's holiday dinner or collect toys for poor children. As a family, you might want to spend a Saturay preparing special bagged lunches to share with the homeless. Go together as a family to deliver the presents to either a needy family that you know or to a local church or shelter. Add poems, newspaper clippings, children's artwork, etc.