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Mailables -The Craft You Can Send

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Card designs vary and are $5.00 Each

Mailables are fun to send and fun to receive. The main aim of this Family run business is to provide crafters with a creative alternative to a birthday card that can be colored, posted (envelope provided) and then assembled by to recipient. You can create a hand colored 3 dimensional card that can be displayed proudly. I also think these would be perfect for sending to young ones to color in their selves as my 3 year old certainly had fun coloring our review copies.

Not only will Grandparents around the globe love to get these but anyone who cares how much love has gone into each stroke of color by a small child or creative artist. The coloring of these Pop Up like cards can be as simple or as intricate as you like making them suitable for all ages, both to color and to receive.

And to make these even more great they are donating 10% of all profits to Charity.  I would love to see them bring out a pop up invitation and thank you card too.  Lots of fun and a great affordable alternative birthday card that teaches creativity is precious and worth sharing.

Mailables are offering 25% off to all our readers until Sept 30th to grab your discount enter Coupon Code : CRAFT at checkout.

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Sun Activities for Kids

With summer coming soon in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a fun time to incorporate activities and crafts with a sunny theme. Take some time to learn about the sun (this post from National Geographic Kids is a good one) and then do some sun activities.

Sun prints are a classic summer activity, and there are lots of ways to do them, from placing objects on construction paper (like in this craft from MomBrite) or by using sun print paper (aka cyanotype paper).

Practice threading, counting, color sorting and other skills with this easy sun threading activity from Taming Little Monsters.

Lessons 4 Little Ones has a great blog post full of ideas for science experiments using the sun, such as melting crayons, looking at shadows, making a sun dial and trying a solar oven. Printables to go with the lessons are available for purchase or you can just talk through the students’ hypotheses about what will happen and draw or otherwise record the results.

This updraft tower from Almost Unschoolers is a cool way to illustrate that the heat of the sun causes an updraft, which makes the pinwheel spin. This is a good one to do inside near a sunny window so you don’t have wind spinning the pinwheel instead.

You’ll want to get out in the sun to try this experiment form Life with Moore Babies to see what kinds of things the sun can melt. Using different kinds of sweets you can see how the sun melts things by itself and how you can concentrate the power of the sun with a magnifying glass.

Playing with shadows is fun for kids of all ages, and you can track a shadow through the day with this experiment from Science Sparks. If you’re working with multiple kids they can each choose an object to shadow (ha!) and at the end of the day you can see how different their shadows looked. 

And of course you’ll want to make a sun themed suncatcher craft, right? This one from Fox Farm Home uses all the pretty flowers you collect on your nature walk and puts them in a sun-shaped frame.