Organising a Card project as an out of school activity:-
- Each child should take home an A4 piece of paper, an order form and a letter to the parents explaining the project. We provide the order forms in the class pack and a suggested letter to parents can be found on our download page, this can be edited to suit your purpose. We recommend this takes place on a Thursday or Friday so as to give the children a weekend to complete the design.
- Ask the children to return their orders by a date set by yourselves allowing a couple of days for those that forget to return their orders by the deadline.
- Ask the school or organise a couple of parent volunteers to fill in order forms and collect the money. Remember that cheques should be made payable to your PTA organisation.
- Phone us and we will organise the collection of your artwork and orders along with your payment. All cheques must be made out to Cauliflower Cards ltd.
Thank you so much for the cards, they were returned so quickly! Everyone was really pleased. We would definitely like to take part again next year. Very impressed with the quality of the cards.
PTA Chair Frances Olive Anderson Lea School
Firstly a huge thank-you from our committee and our school for the fantastic turnaround with the Christmas Cards. It's our third year using you and we were really happy with the whole service and also the profits we made.
PTA Member, Great Chesterford Primary School
Useful Tips
The time and effort that has gone into the artwork is obviously reflected in the finished cards. If you can involve the school staff in working with the children during school time to produce the designs then this is great, but not always practically possible.
However you can involve the teachers in smaller ways by asking them to spend 5mins introducing the project and talking to the children about their designs. Or you can organise a small introduction to the children yourselves.
If the project is properly introduced we have found that the designs produced at home can be dramatically improved and the interest from parents raised. (Usually the Head Teacher is more than happy to be involved in the introduction of a PTA event so have a word with them first).
A Notice Board Display
We provide sample cards in the class packs and these could be used along with our A3 poster we provide or the A4 poster that can be downloaded and printed off from the download page, to create a display on a school notice board.
Thank you for a very good service – an efficient, friendly and easy to use system.
Member of Friends of Thornton Watlass School
Just wanted to say Thank You. The cards look fantastic and everything was really well organised and it was easy to hand back to the specific classes. The whole process was really easy to do and I look forward to doing the whole process again next year. Thank you.
Secretary of Peel Brow School PTA
