Day Five Learning Service

It is amazing how coloring for some children is very difficult. The children were given stamped images of rockets and birds. They used color pencils to color in the images. I had done samples of each to encourage they to stay in the lines and fill the white areas totally in.. Most of the children did a great job. These two cards are just a sampling of what they did. Once again the Stampin Big Shot machine came out along with embossing folders. The children loved using the machine again to emboss the background for each card. I had to cut the background color for the children since it was not a punch. What a great job they have done!!!!

Hope you have a Razzle Dazzle Stampin time with your young ones. This has been great:)

Day Four of Learning Service

Oh how fun it is to squish paper! The children were given three different sizes of circles. They needed to squish each circle and then open them back up. Next they stacked the three circles together then I helped them get the brad in the middle of the flower. The children then learned how to use the Big Shot machine from Stampin Up to help die cut the Top Note Die to put on the card. They loved using the machine and just wanted to do more than what was needed! Just wait they will get a work out using the machine when they cut the flowers out for their mothers. Once again white cardstock was used. I am finding this is one of the new "in" looks for spring and is very helpful to do with the children. The cards all use Stampin Up products except for the ribbon. I would have loved to use the Stampin Up ribbon for these but my grant was limited on funds and the grant was set up to purchase mostly items which can be used over and over again. This is an idea I will be able to use again next year.

Hope you have a Razzle Dazzle Stampin time:)

Day Three of Learning Service

Today the children stamped the presents. I gave them each a strip of white cardstock to stamp a row of presents on. We used seven different colors of stamp pads, (you only see three of the colors we used). The children then used a square punch to punch out the purple background for the present to go on. The children loved stamping the presents and now have started asking when do they get to take the cards home. I had to explain to then again how we were giving the cards to a care center where lots of grandpas and grandmas live. The cards will be given out for birthdays, just kind thoughts, and to families as the parents graduate to the next life. This made them think this was OK again. Then realizing they were going to make a flower to go onto a card for their mothers was helpful.

Enjoy! Have a Razzle Dazzle Stamping time:)

Day Two of Learning Service

For this card the children stamped the heart and then punched the pink circle out. I helped assemble the rest. A very simple idea but very elegant with the lace punch along the bottom edge.

Have a Razzle Dazzle Stamin time:)

Learning Service Cards

I teach Kindergarten and wrote a Learning Service Grant for my classes. For this grant each child needed to make 3 cards which are being given to a care center to be used in a manner of their choosing. Then the children will each make a Mother's Day card later this week. This first card, the children, stamped tissue paper and then I punched out the flowers, place a brad and attached the flower to each card. Each day this week you will see a different card the children helped to make.

Hope you have a Razzle Dazzle Stampin time:)