Surviving School Holidays

It is often said that most parents don't survive the school holidays well and I must agree. Here are some tips on what to do to try and get through the vacation period with your sanity intact.

Crafting for 4 - 14yr old's ( I will post a few things as the week progresses)

Card making

You will need the following low cost items:
glue stick
embellishments ( the $2 store has heaps of these)
ready folded cards and envelopes ( or make your own from card and paper stock)
coloured pencils or markers
ribbon
Scissors

If you buy an assortment of items to make cards its easy to match them together and often cheaper than buying a few bits and pieces.
The aim is not to spend more than $10 on this project and you should be able to make at the very least 6 cards and envelopes.
Remember anything can be used around your house like unused buttons, scraps of wrapping paper, bits of ribbon too short for anything else, foil, left over bits of pretty paper.
You can also draw pictures and cut them out instead of buying embelishments.

Kids love anything they made themselves and you give them the opportunity to achieve something exciting, enhancing their ability. I found that even kids who say they are not crafty still have fun.


Ask the children to draw a picture and write something on the card ( some will have a best friend so "Friends 4 Eva" is a good one or if one is ill especially now in the flu season or the ordinary "Happy Birthday" and often you will find the kids will make a card for you which of course is always nice)

Once they have completed drawing, let them embellish the card and envelope as they wish. They will find this to be quite exciting. They may ask you for help and that's always cool.

Often places like Spotlight have sales and you are able to buy heaps of crafty things for 50c buy and store these in a box for later. They always come in handy. Remember to mark your box so that you know what's in it, especially if you start having many boxes.

Happy crafting guys.
xoxo DG