Mailables -The Craft You Can Send

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.

One of the subjects that’s often covered in preschool is learning about the five senses. Understanding our senses helps us describe the world around us and our experience in it, and it’s fun to explore the senses in different ways.

Rock Your Homeschool has a great free printables pack having to do with the five senses. I love the foldable activity shown above because it emphasizes that the way we really experience our senses is through our brains. They also have a sensory scavenger hunt printable, which doesn’t include taste but has the rest of the senses included.

Of course we don’t really want kids tasting things they find outside (unless you happen to have fruit or vegetables growing nearby) but I like the way Hands on Teaching Ideas handled it by including “something an animal would eat” on their five senses scavenger hunt.

Sea of Knowledge has lots of ideas for things to do with preschoolers to learn about the five senses, as well as this free with email signup template for making a five senses craft (you could also trace the child’s hands instead of using the hands in the template if you like).

Use a potato head toy you probably already have to play a five senses game with the download from A Little Pinch of Perfect. You could do the same thing on paper with a potato (or human body) shape and color on the different sense organs.

Simple Everyday Mom has a cute set of senses puppets you can print and play with, or use for different projects and crafts.

Preschool Packets has a whole set of posts dealing with teaching the five senses (the one linked here is for hearing but the rest are linked within that post), which includes a great idea for making shakers with kids to explore the sense of hearing.

Tim’s Printables has some cute five senses printables where kids can match the image to the sense you’d use to explore it. There’s also a body to label but I think there’s only a male version.

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