Personally I don't think you NEED to buy them gifts.... Im sure they will receive gifts from others that are closer with them that day. One year I was feeling particularly generous and not so broke, so I got all the kids things like $10 gc to itunes, dairy queen, movie theatre, Burger King or Wendys, etc... just a token really. I also didn't buy them toys because kids want to immediately open toys and start playing and to have 10 kids all playing with a different toy in the house when we are trying to prepare for dinner and stuff was going to be too much chaos.
Another year I bought the 'hottest' video game that year so all the kids could play the video game out of the way of dinner prep, but noone got to take it home, it was a game that I kept at my house for future visits. But the kids all had a blast while they were there and felt like they got something.
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