Usually each Christmas season our children would make a variety of Christmas cards to be delivered to friends and contacts, who had faithfully helped us with their services and care during the year.
This year a coworker took this idea further. Why not take children cards to the printing shop and offer the cards for donations in bigger quantities to our sponsors and supporters, making it a marketable tool? She explained the idea to the children, and it became a project!
First, the productions team set out to buy the necessary tools – markers, paper, crayons, color pencils, glitter, etc. etc. Then, every day children were creating cards making them look very nice and giving their best. The youngest participant, Nadia, is 4 years old. Then, after the cards were made, Daria (10) and Aggie (14) took pictures of each card and uploaded them all on the computer. Then an adult laid them out on a A4 sheet of paper with the logo, our contact number and other information, making out of all cards three different flyers.
Next, we went to the friendly printer and negotiated a good price for printing out each card in color on a special paper. There would be 2 sizes: A6 and A5. Then, when our friends went to their weekly spot in one of the best restaurants downtown, they was offering their friends, clients and employees the flyers, so that those could choose the cards they wanted to purchase for a donation towards children’s collective fund for Christmas.
The very first day several people ordered 125 cards! We are planning to take children singing, and after each show they could offer to the audience the cards they made with the special message inside.
Here are some more cards that went into flyers.
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