If your kids’ Christmas lists are filled with the usual requests for various toys and items they’ve seen in TV commercials, don’t despair at the thought of another year of the same kind of Christmas — truly entertaining and unusual gifts for kids are just a mental stretch away. The last thing you want is for your kids to open up their seventh Hannah Montana Barbie (this time with freckles!), play with it for a day, and then end up back in front of the television getting more ideas for more toys they “need” stuck in their heads. That’s why you need to think outside the box — literally! — and go for some truly unusual gifts. For kids, getting something they’ve seen on TV isn’t really gratifying — getting something they’ll LOVE is.
So how do you go about getting some really unusual gifts for kids that are TV-fixated? Start by talking to them a month or so out from shopping season. Ask them about their favorite TV characters, and find out what makes them cool. If Hannah Montana is cool, find out if it’s because she’s a pop star, or because she has a secret identity, or what. The secret to making successful but unusual gifts for kids is to give them a way to be like their favorite character.
If you’re talking to a boy, find out what kinds of things his favorite characters do that makes them worth watching. You’ll probably learn that it has something to do with beating up bad guys or having superpowers. That’s good, because it’s easy to make an unusual Christmas gift for kids that like to be, for lack of a better word, bad-ass.
The power of imagination
Don’t ever underestimate the ability of a less-than-12-year-old to imagine a host of circumstances and react according to his imagination. It’s this exact power that you can rely on to create incredibly fun if slightly unusual Christmas gifts for kids. Let’s look at a few common ‘wishes’ and how you can use Christmas and imagination to make it happen.
A secret identity: Secret identities require a way for the kids to change their appearance. Masks are too obvious, but give your young’un a wig, a trench coat, fake glasses, and other paraphernalia, and you’re good. At that point, it’s all about prior arrangement with your neighbors, your kids’ teachers, and other adults — whatever it takes to give her a day where she can switch roles as she pleases and see what it’s like to be two people at once. It will be the great ideas for best gifts for kids.
Superheroism: Being a superhero also requires getting other people to play along. One excellent way to pull this off is to give your son a nerf gun, a ‘special’ mask or shield or other item, and a disposable cell-phone marked up with a symbol to show that it’s a superhero phone. Then, get some relatives that are over for Christmas to enact a scenario: Dad goes to the kitchen and calls the son’s phone to inform him that some evil villain has kidnapped Grandma, and he needs to defeat the Three Evil Henchmen (Dad, Grandpa, and the dog) in order to free her!
You can see where this is going — the best unusual gifts for kids are the ones that let them play the roles they love to watch; give them that ability, and they’ll remember it forever.
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