Kids participating in this year’s Door County 4-H Children’s Christmas Store will get to experience an additional lesson this holiday season. In year’s past, children were given a holiday budget to go shopping with volunteers to buy presents for their family members. Along with learning a little independence, the experience teaches them about giving, budgeting, and decision making. COVID-19 has scrapped those plans but will live on as part of the Children’s Christmas Store Box. Each box will contain seven crafts for the kids to make and the wrapping supplies to have it ready for under the tree. Door County 4-H Educator Dawn Vandevoort says it is great they are able to still teach these lessons during the holiday season even if they cannot be together.

Vandevoort says past themed activity boxes, including its current Explore 4-H series, has been successful in engaging kids in a virtual space. More details about the Children’s Christmas Store boxes are below.