How to make flu shots less scary for kids

Shots are scary. No two ways about it. But the anticipation of shots makes it so much worse. Here are some smart ideas for making shots as innocuous as possible (and, yes, I tried to come up with a pun using the word innoculate but it wasn't meant to be):

From Jill:

I just took my kids in for flu shots.  I thought we'd explained that it'd only hurt for a minute, then be over.  That it was ...