I'm always on the lookout for personalized gifts for kids.

Well, forget T-shirts and blankies this year.

This one is a doozy.

Put your - or someone else's child in a cartoon with his or her favorite character. Be it Dora and/or Diego, Barney, Spider-Man or the Care Bears. A website, Kideo.com, does it for you. Your only work entails sending in a picture of the child - preferably smiling - and these folks create a 20 minute action cartoon. I sent a picture of Scarlett in and about a week later we have a DVD costarring her.

Dora, Diego and Boots take her on an adventure in a rain forest and help save a baby jaguar. Scarlett has no idea how she got in the flick but loves it - already watched it probably 50 times in two days.

We've got a budding moviestar in our midst.

$29.95 at kideo.com.