Here are some ideas on ways your children can help out during the holidays and also learn some valuable skills:

• Help make up a shopping list. (Spelling practice)
• Pick out and weigh vegetables. (Identifying vegetables and using a scale)
• Using cookie cutters with fun shapes to make holiday cookies.
• Mashing potatoes or sweet potatoes.
• Arranging vegetables and cut up wedges of Borden cheeses for snack platters.
• Arranging a relish plate using Mario green and black olives, pickles, and celery stuffed with Borden cream cheese.
• Washing and drying dishes, pots, and pans.
• Loading and unloading the dishwasher.
• Sweeping the floor.
• Setting the table.

This is general information only and should not replace advice or instructions given to you by your physician.

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