Captive Crafters: Last Week of School

This is the first day of the last week of school for Trinity (First Grade) and Sonny and Skyler (Kindergarten). We have so many projects to do this week along with keeping up with the housework, eBay, Artfire, and now that the weather has finally turned nice, yard work that we will be running around like a chicken and her little chicks. Our after school project today is to create little 'graduation' gifts for all the kids in Trinity, Sonny and Skyler's classes. Each class has between 20 and 25 children so we'll be making 72 gifts which should give us a few extras. First off, I bought some cute decks of cards from Oriental Trading shaped like graduations caps. They are on sale for $1.50 for 12 decks of cards. I bought 6 dozen - a set in red, blue, green, yellow, purple and orange for $9.00 which is 12 1/2 cents per deck of cards!

The decks measure a scant 3" X 3". I have labels that measure 1" X 3" that I'll set up with sayings:

Happy Graduation! Hope you have a fun summer! From Skyler
Congrats Graduate! Have fun in first grade! From Sonny
Have a great summer! Hope to see you next year! From Trinity

The kids will put a label on the back of each deck of cards and then decorate the label with stickers.

I'll post a picture or two when the project is finished.

To go with the decks of cards the kids will be making Smartie Airplanes.