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.

In our continuing exploration of lesser known holidays, let’s take a look at Terry Fox Day, which is probably one you know if you’re Canadian.

Terry Fox was a Canadian athlete who had a leg amputated at age 18 because of cancer and then did a cross-country run to raise awareness and funding for cancer research. He was born July 28, 1958, and the first Monday in August is celebrated as Terry Fox Day in Manitoba.

Fox is considered a kind of folk hero in Canada despite the difficulties of traveling across Canada on foot (no one on his team spoke French, for example, the weather was often bad and cars would force him off the road) and the low number of donations at the beginning of his run. He ultimately had to end his run after 143 days and 3,339 miles, or 5,373 km, because his cancer had returned and spread to his lungs, but he raised $1.7 million, and a telethon a week after he ended his run raised $10.5 million.

Check out some Terry Fox quotes collected by My Little Desire. You can learn more in this video from CBC Kids, and listen to the Terry Fox song illustrated by a first grade class.

Twinkl has a bunch of Terry Fox related activities in both English and French, including an activity pack with a maze and word search, a coring challenge, a fact sheet and coloring page.

Most of the resources I could find were at Teachers Pay Teachers, but you can learn more about the activity pack for grades 1-3 that Mrs. Bremer’s Class has made, which tells his story and has kids write things they learned and discuss why they think he is a hero.

Creative Classroom Core has a few paid resources include writing activities, reading comprehension and a Terry Fox fact book.

That Fun Reading Teacher has a K-2 singalong with a differentiated reader and activity to teach kids about him.

You can also celebrate Terry Fox Day by talking about what makes a person a hero and who the kids in your home or classroom think of as heroes. And if you’re Canadian, there are Terry Fox runs in more than 650 communities in September, so you can make plans to participate or cheer on the runners to remember his legacy.

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