12DK #5 Ideas for Kingly Gifts

Imperial greetings!

Today is a cold, snowy day, so we decided to get blankets and hot cocoa and watch one of our favourite shows, 'Keeping Up With the Shenanigans'. Since we have a Kingmas event to run, we decided to remain productive by writing a list of Kingly gift ideas during the commercial breaks. Here's what we came up with:

1: For writerly kings, kill two jewels with one crown by giving them a mug and write one of their characters quotes on it, or a picture from their book or story. It will serve as both a mug to drink from and a source of inspiration. We are sure they will love it, unless they hate mugs or you accidentally quoted the villain. But then again, they might still love it.

2: For the kings who are big readers, try either giving them a new book or giving them a copy of one of yours, if you are a writer. You could also make them bookmarks. Those always come in handy. (Unless you put them on a shelf to display them and then can never reach them.)

3: For the creative kings, get a box and fill it with all the different materials they need to make a majestic project, such as notebooks or keychains or bookmarks. We are sure they will enjoy it. If you want to be extra thoughtful, add a booklet all about how to remove different kinds of glues from different kinds of surfaces. You never know when they or their cat might get into a sticky situation.

4: And we are not forgetting the kings who like to go on big adventures. A good gift to give them is pack a picnic basket with food, binoculars, a bird identification guide (if you want it to drag on for a few years) and don't forget water. If you live in a climate similar to ours and during Kingmas you're up to your ears and snow and can't walk three steps without getting your boots stuck, maybe you should just give them a card promising to do it with them during the summer. Or, you could go ice hunting, or go sledding off your roof, or go on a snowshoes walk.

5: Childish kings usually appreciate things such as toy cars, baby dolls, squeaky ducks, and blocks that are painted with such bright colours they almost blind you. Just don't forget to not give them batteries.

6: For the kings who like mushy gushy stuff, we don't know exactly what they would like, because we do not understand them very well. But we suppose they would like sonnets or poetry written about them, a love story, or maybe a pen with a sentimental meaning.

Well, we hope those ideas help you out and we apologize in advance if the recipients of one of your gifts does not like it. Maybe it is just the wrapping paper you chose, or maybe you put the wrong name on the gift tag. But we hope everything goes majestically well.

Yours truthfully and with our minds full of shenanigans,