About ninety youth from our church assembled to make and write sentiments inside more than 1,000 cards. This posed an exciting challenge when it came to the pre-planning. The cards needed to be simple enough and easy enough for everyone, yet still show that a lot of thought and time and effort went into each one. No sloppy, hurried work allowed!
I have to admit...it is much easier to create a complicated card than it is to create a simple card. I looked at each sample card that I came up with and could see that each one had so much more potential. However, I kept reminding myself of the purpose of the task at hand. I didn't need to create the most gorgeous cards, I needed to create the most appropriate and heartfelt cards. I wanted the troops to smile when they opened each one.
Luckily, Michael's had a sale on all of their holiday-themed foam stickers. I combined the stickers with some easy stamping and came up with twelve different cards. I wanted to make sure that the youth didn't get bored. Variety is the spice of life!
I placed each card and its supplies inside of a deep-dish disposable lasagna pan. All of the supplies, including paper, pens, stickers, ink, rubber stamps, and samples were in each pan.
We put a lasagna pan on each table. It was fun to see how each group tackled the job of making so many cards. Some groups worked in an assembly-line fashion, some groups were really slow, some were really fast, but all of the groups had a great time. They collected granola bars and hot chocolate, too. The event was a success!
After all of their hard work making the cards, the youth had a cookie-decorating contest. Don't these giant chocolate chip cookies look delicious?
Supplies:
2 packages of copy paper (500 sheets each)
Foam stickers
Christmas stamps (in English and Spanish)
Ink
Deep-dish disposable lasagna pans (use the plastic lids to collect the back of the peel-off stickers)
Pens
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