Introduce your children to sewing. Children as young as two and a half would have fun stringing beads, cereal with holes in it or round pasta to make necklaces or bracelets. Take a piece of cardboard and punch holes for a three or four year old to sew with yarn. If there is no large plastic needle in the house, try dipping the end of the yarn in glue to make it stiff. Find special sewing projects for school age children and teens on this website: http://www.sewing.org/index.html.