How do i return my mac to factory specs?

I am giving my mac to my nephew and need to clean it out.  How do i do that without a disc.  I want to return it to the way i bought it.

No. The only things you can do without them are to create a new administrator account, log in with it, delete the old one, and manually uninstall all non-bundled applications.
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