Choosing and perhaps making teacher-gifts with your child can provide quality family-time while teaching your child to give from the heart. Here are ten ideas even busy families can use.

1. Have your copy shop help you make notepads featuring your child's art.

Have your child create several small designs with a black felt-tip pen or fine-tip marker. Visit your local copy shop with your child and let the staff advise you about which design will work best. The staff can then help you and your child choose the dimensions of your notepads. When you bring the pads home, your child can glue to the cardboard backing a strip of magnetic tape, available at crafts stores.

2. Make potpourri ornaments.

Make a batch of these when you want to remember multiple teachers. At a craft store, buy clear, round, hollow plastic ornaments and holiday- colored potpourri. Help your child pour some potpourri into each ornament. Close and loop a ribbon through the top.

3. Mold glycerin soaps in fun shapes.

Buy colored glycerin soap bars and molds from a craft store. Melt soap chunks in a can placed in a pot of water over a low flame. Let the can cool until it can be safely handled. Supervising carefully to avoid burns, help your child pour the liquid soap into the molds. Let harden and release. Package several soaps in a cellophane bag and tie with ribbon.

4. Shop fair trade.

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