Purchase or create a "fingerprint card," which carries the receiver's complete fingerprints.
Whether your ten-year-old girl recently decided she wanted to be a detective, your husband just graduated from police academy or your mother loves crime shows on television, you can wow them all with personalized forensic gifts. They will show how much you care and offer you the chance to give the best present of the year. To personalize any gift, you only need to add the person's name, possible even on the smallest budget.
Shirt
Many people use shirts to express their passions, humor or sensitivities in life. You can use a printed T-shirt to personalize a gift for your forensics lover. Zazzle carries a complete line of forensics-slogan tees, with such sayings as "Leave something behind, genius?" (with a picture of a fingerprint) and "Peace, love, forensic anthropology." Whether you choose to use a blank shirt or a preprinted shirt, to personalize your gift just take the shirt to a local print shop to get "Det." and the person's name on it. If the gift is for a forensics-show-loving parent, add some humor with name badges like "Sgt. Dad" or "Det. Granny".
Crime Scene Decorations
For a larger gift idea, you can create a whole crime scene decorative "folder" for your forensics lover. Include framed X-rays (maybe from childhood accidents), framed "crime scene" details and even a "facial reconstruction" cast of the person's own face. (Although you may have trouble hiding that you are creating this gift, you don't need to tell the person why you need to pour plaster on her face.) Other possible items to include: a large framed print of the person's actual fingerprint, a diagram of the person's favorite piece of forensics equipment or a large, framed picture of DNA gel electrophoresis strands.
Personalized Equipment
For someone actually working in the forensics field, personalize a piece of treasured or important equipment. For the crime-scene investigator, buy a personalized fingerprint brush or metal briefcase in which to secure files.
Kids interested in forensic science often use as many tools in play as professionals do at work. For your child, create personalized tools such as crime scene yellow tape, but replace the words "Crime Scene" with the child's name.
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