Bravo Tim!! Great find!!! This not only sounds like fun for school but I'm going to show this to my church!! They want to start a family night and I'm on tht committee,too (moving from a dinner plate to turkey platter ).
You can also order the craft kits from Oriental Trading. They have the kits with all of the supplies included. They even break down the cost of each craft so that you can adjust your cost to the parents before you assign one set price. We are thinking about doing this also for the holidays and are thinking about asking each class or each grade level to make a different themed basket that we will raffle off during the family night. The theme basket idea came off another thread here on the website. :eek:
We host a Multi-Cultural Event in December, which is a craft night +. We have craft tables with materials, samples, and a craftmaster who helps the kids make the craft. We tried to choose ideas that weren't too expensive. Having a theme helped us be more focused in what we did. First, we went through old storage boxes and found felt, sequins, buttons, fabric, etc. We got rid of what we couldn't use and kept the good stuff. Try to get donations from Beverly's, JoAnn,s (craft and fabric chains), Target, Walmart, Ben Franklin, or any place else you can think of for your materials. Get Costco to donate cookies and juice. We charged 25cents for each craft and the cookies/juice were free. We had about 10 crafts. Get a donation of paper bags and have kids decorate on way in to put their treasures in.
We also used this opportunity to have raffle baskets and holiday plants for sale. The parents have time to look while the kids are crafting.
hey there! i just finished the survey. as for a family arts and craft fun night, i would love to do something like that in our school. however, we don't have a lot of income in our school so it would have to be a low cost event and that is always difficult. i am very interested in hearing all about this though and look forward to trying to implement something at our school. ironically, we are having our first annual family fun night next week and i have been racking my brains for craft ideas for the kids! if anyone has any ideas, i would love to hear them. thanks!
Great news! We'll be adding Family Arts & Crafts Night to our School Family Nights series very soon. Crayola is an excited sponsor and will be working with us to create great tools for your groups.
The announcement will be in our October issue (and the Web site updated also in October)and the Night kits will be available after January 1st.
If any of you have 5 minutes, Crayola has posted a survey online to help us figure out exactly the best materials and tools for Arts & Crafts Night. Your help will help us build another neat tool for your parent involvement efforts.
I'd also love to get your general feedback here in the forum on the concept of Arts & Crafts Night. Is this something you'll use at your school? Do you like the idea? Any tips or suggestions? As always, all feedback more than welcome.
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