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Everyone has that one hard to buy for person on their shopping list. This hard to shop for person seems to own everything, or they just never voice a want they may have. When it comes to unique, and visually stunning gifts there are no others which can surpasses the gift of coins. With so many wonderful manufacturing options available in today’s world a talented craftsman has the ability to bend, mold, and create gifts from coins in some new and spectacular ways.

Neck ties were once the gift for any occasion, and those who opened this gift often smiled, but never truly appreciated it. Now boring old ties can be a gift of the past with the many coin gift options. A handsome boxed set of carefully placed, and chosen coins are the perfect gift for coin lovers of any age. New York Times boxed sets are not only a must have for collectors, but they would make a cherished gift for anyone. These sets can take the viewer back in time to read the event that made it to the front page of the New York times, and allow them to see coins that were created during that era, or were created later because of that moment in time. The wooden boxes, which house these special captured memories, would make the perfect addition to any coin collection, and they do look charming when placed on a shelf or desk for everyone to enjoy.

A truly unique gift for the hard to shop for individual, which is visually stunning, would be a gold coin pendant. There are many different types of gold coins available for these pendants, which makes this unique gift quite personal as well. A 14 kt gold pendant can be round or tear drop in shape, and the chain can also be in different lengths to tie perfectly together the whole design.

Executives, office workers, coin collectors, grandparents or anyone else that is on the gift list this year would admire and cherish an unique gift created from coins. Boxed sets, pendants, treasure chests and even wall plaques are just a few of the options that many people favor for gift giving.

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Gardening is an excellent activity for families to enjoy together. It teaches kids how living things grow, encourages them to like fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables, and is a great way to learn about responsibility and caretaking. Plus, it’s fun. Whether you plan an acre’s worth of veggies or maintain a small window box of flowers, here are five basic gardening tasks your kids will love, and you might just find they save you some work, too.

Preparing the Garden

Ask children to help plan the garden so they feel involved from the start. Let them help choose a plot of land or some containers and ask each child to select his own vegetables or flowers to plant. Children will also enjoy picking up sticks and raking leaves to prepare an area for gardening. Make this chore into a game to see who can collect the most sticks or remove the most rocks from the ground. Ask kids to gather gardening supplies and carry debris to the bin or compost pile to keep them moving and involved and save your grown-up legs some walking.

Digging in the Dirt

Most children dig in the dirt for fun anyway. Why not put their skills to work in the garden? Equip younger children with safe, plastic, kid-sized tools to avoid injuries from metal rakes and spades and let them dig right in. If their attention wanders and they start making mud pies before there’s a hole for every bulb or seed, try asking them to imagine you’re excavating for dinosaur bones or digging for buried treasure to keep them motivated.

Pulling Weeds

What seems like a chore to adults is an exciting game to children. Teach kids to recognize and pull weeds to help your garden flourish. Supervise younger children to be sure that only undesirables are uprooted. Have a contest to see whose weed pile is the biggest, or save some of the pulled weeds with the most interesting leaves or blossoms to study and identify like scientists or to use in arts and crafts projects.

Watering

What child doesn’t love to play with water? Let the kids get a little wet and help sustain the garden, too. Kid-sized watering cans cut down on spills (but not necessarily on-purpose soakings), and hoses and sprinklers can be lots of fun. When the plants have had their fill, let children pretend to be the flowers in the garden, standing in the sunlight with their arms up like petals, and give them a little sprinkle of their own.

Harvesting

The most important part of gardening with children is showing them how their hard work pays off by letting them help cut fresh flowers or harvest veggies when the time is right. They’ll feel a real sense of pride in their accomplishment and maybe, just maybe, even deign to eat some of the healthy produce that they’ve grown.

Written by Jamie Lovelock
Jamie runs a landscaping business. Jamie gets a lot of inspirations from his dad who is a gardening enthusiast. Jamie loves DIY at home and spends lots of time in his workshop when he’s not in the backyard.