I was just reading the Original Works topic below and wanted to comment on KidsKards fundraiser we just did.
We have so far been very impressed with KidsKards. We teamed up with our Art Teacher for this. KidsKards suggest that we send the artwork home for the parents to view but that is very risky so we made sure all the artwork was ready by our Oct PTO meeting at McDonalds (during our McTeacher night) and parents/grandparents came and were able to view it right there.
Personally our timing for the project was a challenge. We had originally scheduled our Fall fundraiser last year, then the district moved the first day of school back a week so we had to reschedule our Fall fundraiser and Kids Kards orders were due just 9 days after turning in our fall fundraiser . ..then school pictures just happened to be that same week? So that was our only challenge with getting parents to do the kidskards fundraiser.
We have had more POSITIVE feedback on this project than anything else we've done in the past and parents are begging us to continue doing this.
It has been little work and EASY communication with the company. We saved 5-7 mailing days by having them email us the proofs before they went to print and are expecting the final product a week and a half before what was planned which is great.
KidsKards was very good at explaining what colors/materials work and which ones don't scan too well.
Our Art teachers had all the kingergarten do snowmen with paint, 1st grade did penguins with paint, 2nd grade did reindeer with construction paper and pastels and 3-6 were free to do what they wanted and let me tell you, THERE WERE SOME GREAT ONES!!!!!!! Some were great in a creative way, some were great in how they used their colors, some were great in the theme of the picture. Teachers were so impressed that they ordered ones who's parents couldn't afford to participate at the time because the artwork was just tooo good not have it used.
For more info, you can go to
www.kidskards.com
Again, it has been painless and awesome results for the students and their selfesteem!