Adopt an Animal, Earn a Cookie

Make a donation in someone's name and have something for them to unwrap, so they're not disappointed that they didn't get "a real gift": Adopt a penguin, polar bear, or seal-among other sea creatures-at Oceana's Web site and receive a cookie cutter in the shape of your adopted pal, as well as an exclusive sugar-cookie recipe concocted by Warren Brown, Food Network host and the owner of CakeLove bakery.

If you up your contribution from $35 to $75, the international ocean conservation group will throw in three additional ocean-themed cookie cutters. Add $25 on top of that, and you'll also get an Oceana snowflake oven mitt. Then go have yourself a cookie, you ocean defender, you. ::Oceana

See also: ::Simplify the Holidays: Inexpensive, Creative and Eco-friendly Gift Ideas

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